Interviews with four current and former law enforcement officials and documents reviewed by The Advocate show the DEA had been warned more than a decade ago by its own agents, confidential informants and other sources of information that task force members, including Scott, were playing by their own rules, disregarding DEA policies and at times even profiting from an illicit drug trade..
Brigadier general Robert Carr, a senior counter-intelligence officer who headed the information review task force that investigated the impact of the Wikileaks disclosures, said they had discovered no specific examples of anyone who lost his or her life in reprisals following publication of documents on the internet.
Government possession of such information, the task force warned, "creates potential risks to public trust, personal privacy and civil liberty".
I.B.M. formed an "information technology optimization" task force at the start of the year.
Another count charges him with threatening physical harm to stop someone from providing information to the task force.
Mr. Cheney, in clear defiance of the law, has refused to release any information about his task force's deliberations; what is he hiding?
Mr. Waxman, in a letter to Mr. Cheney today, asked for additional information from the task force deliberations about an Enron power plant project in India.
Information about the task force and a draft of the plan.
While Pentagon officials have cooperated on other audits, they seem especially reluctant to allow access to information about the task force, SIGAR said.
The strategy, Hope said, was to delay turning over information until the task force was disbanded later that spring, and then to claim that the personnel with knowledge of specific projects no longer worked at the Pentagon.
