FBI probe of WikiLeaks still active six years later: Justice Dept.

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

WikiLeaks remains the subject of an FBI investigation more than six years after the anti-secrecy website began releasing classified government documents, the Department of Justice confirmed this week.

A records managers for the FBI wrote in a May 9 letter that documents concerning WikiLeaks sought through a Freedom of Information Act request were exempt due to ongoing law enforcement proceedings.

The FBI’s acknowledgment, sent in response to a FOIA request filed in November by journalist Ken Klippenstein, is a rare admission concerning a government investigation that began early in the Obama administration and is now in its sixth year.

Responding to the request, David M. Hardy, chief of the FBI’s Record/Information Dissemination Section, wrote that records being sought by the journalist are “located in an investigative file while is exempt from disclosure” pursuant to federal law.

“The records responsible to your request are law enforcement records; there is a pending or prospective law enforcement proceeding relevant to these responsive records, and release of the information in these responsive records could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings,” Mr. Hardy wrote.

Mr. Klippenstein told The Washington Times Friday that he had already appealed the government’s rejection.

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