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Article: Ashcroft squelches move toward laws against leaks.(Attorney General John Ashcroft, classified information leaks)
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- PR Week (US)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2002
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WASHINGTON: Senator Richard Shelby's (R-AL) long crusade to create a federal law punishing government employees who disclose classified information to the media received a potentially fatal blow last week.
Attorney General John Ashcroft sent a report to Congress on Tuesday saying the key to plugging such leaks was aggressive investigation and the enforcement of existing laws, not the creation of new ones. 'Accordingly, I am not recommending that the executive branch focus its attention on pursuing new legislation at this time,' he wrote.
The report was the culmination of an interagency study to determine how leaks of classified information impact the ...