Thursday, October 05, 2006

Beverley Lumpkin, Ace Reporter

Beverley Lumpkin of CBS yesterday:

In July, when Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) provided the "innocuous" emails to the FBI, they were heavily redacted.

The FBI asked CREW to go back to its source and ask for more information so it could follow up, but CREW refused. That's why the FBI did nothing further at that time.


They weren't heavily redacted.

They didn't ask CREW to go back to its source and ask for more information so it could follow up.

CREW didn't refuse that request because no request was made.

That isn't why the FBI did nothing further because none of those things are true.

Beverley Lumpkin, ace reporter, obviously after Steno Sue's job.


...between me writing this and posting this at some point they changed it to this:


The Justice Department told CBSNews that in July, when Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) provided the "innocuous" e-mails to the FBI, they were heavily redacted. CREW adamantly denies that and says they provided an FBI agent with complete, unredacted e-mails.

The Justice Department also said that the FBI asked CREW to go back to its source and ask for more information so it could follow up, but CREW refused. That's why the FBI, Justuice said, did nothing further at that time. CREW says the FBI made no such follow-up requests for more information at any time. An FBI agent did place one clarifying phone call on the day CREW turned over the e-mails to double-check that Mark Foley was the congressman involved, CREW said.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story failed to present CREW's account. That was a mistake for which we apologize.



...more from CREW.