Documents: FBI pursued widespread probe of leaker in Gotti case

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Newsday
By LARRY McSHANE
Associated Press Writer

January 15, 2005, 9:22 AM EST

NEW YORK -- As notorious mobster John Gotti went to trial for murder and racketeering, federal investigators grilled scores of suspects about secret details surrounding the Gambino boss' precision murder plot against his predecessor, "Big Paul" Castellano.

They were looking for a mole, not a Mafioso.

The nearly 200 people questioned were all in law enforcement, many of them FBI agents stationed from New Jersey to California. The investigation _ sparked by a single phone call from an irate federal judge _ sought the source of a story leaked to a New York tabloid six years after the Manhattan mob rubout.

The FBI fared better with Gotti than its internal probe. While the mob boss went away for life, "no one was identified as being the source of the leaks," a long-buried FBI memorandum concluded 13 months after the February 1992 hunt for the leaker began.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny--gotti-l0115jan15,0,2124911.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

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1. these are 'Family' matters....so the 'Family' must handle it...without

outside interference, you see.

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2. Are they referring to Valerie Plame?

"The inability to identify the leaker is hardly uncommon, as evidenced in the ongoing case of a CIA officer whose identity was leaked."

That is hardly the same thing. Revealing Plame's name was an act of treason, and Novak was complicit.

Edited to add Capeci's quote:
"I'm amazed," Capeci said after hearing about the expansive probe. "I'm amazed they spent so much time, money and effort to find our sources. ... This was not exactly national security."

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3. well, they generally don't spend money on national security.

not this nation, anyway. They're spending alot in Iraq, right now.