I think this is a slap back for the release of FBI docs related to McVeigh and then the release of a death certificate stating he was still in the Dept. of the Army..... Thank goodness the press is completely compromised in this country and we get entertainment like this for free. (That was said with tongue firmly in cheek) :~)
~tuatha

Wednesday June 20, 03:51 AM
VEGAS FBI WORKER ACCUSED OF SELLING SECRETS TO MOB

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - In another embarrassing setback for the FBI, an agency employee has been arrested for allegedly selling bureau secrets to the Mafia and criminal defence lawyers for the past 19 months for thousands of dollars, an FBI spokesman said.

James J Hill, who worked as a support employee in the FBI's Las Vegas office, is charged in a complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York with theft of government property, conspiracy and obstruction of justice, Special Agent Grant Ashley, an FBI spokesman, said.

Ashley said Hill was accused of pilfering top-secret files from the office since November 1999 and selling them for thousands of dollars to defence attorneys and organised crime figures in New York.

FBI spokesman Steven Berry in Washington said Hill was "apparently providing information regarding organised crime investigations and related investigations."

His arrest follows a series of high-profile blunders for the nation's premier law-enforcement agency, including the arrest earlier this year of former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who allegedly sold secrets to Moscow for 15 years.

Berry said the FBI was "very sure" no national security secrets were disclosed in the latest case.

"As far as we can determine, there was no national security information disclosed," he said. "In fact, we are very sure that there was not."

Hill, who was arrested in Las Vegas last week, faces a hearing in federal court on Wednesday, where a judge will consider his request for bail. Prosecutors were expected to fly him to New York to face the charges, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kurt Schulke said.

WAS ALLEGEDLY PAID $25,000

The complaint filed against Hill charges that between November 1999 and June 2001, he illegally provided FBI records and documents pertaining to criminal cases and grand jury investigations to unnamed persons in exchange for approximately $25,000 (18,000 pounds).

Once Hill's activities were discovered within the FBI, an investigation was launched, Ashley said. The FBI is still investigating, but it appears that all the compromised information was about criminal cases, he said.

He said an investigation was still under way to see whether Hill's alleged activities breached national security.

Hill appeared for his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Friday, shortly after his arrest. The case had been kept quiet until Tuesday.

Special Agent Daro Borst, a division spokesman, said further details could not be provided because the investigation was continuing. Hill remains in custody without bail in Las Vegas.

In Washington, an FBI spokesman said Hill's actions represented an isolated case. "The actions of one individual are not reflective of the hard work and dedication of the overwhelming majority of FBI employees," he said.

Two top senators will present a bill on Wednesday aimed at initiating an investigation of the FBI, which has also come under fire for its probe of Taiwan-born scientist Wen Ho Lee and its handling of standoffs with a white separatist at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas.

Convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution was delayed for a month because the FBI discovered it had thousands of documents that had never been turned over to defence lawyers.