The Justice Department declined to prosecute its former owner, Alberto Gonzales, possibly by bad _y ilegal_ handling of intelligence on two of the efforts to combat terrorism more sensitive government of President George W. Bush.
Make a mishandling of intelligence violates the rules of the Department of Justice, and remove facilities with special security systems without proper authorization is a crime, although smaller.
A report by the inspector general of the Department of Justice filed on Tuesday claims that the department decided not to file charges against Gonzales, who resigned amid criticism last year.
Gonzales is a close friend and a former adviser to President Bush, and was Hispanic with the highest public office in the United States. As the principal officer for law enforcement, was interfered in a scandal over the firing of nine federal prosecutors. The Democrats noted that the dismissals were politically motivated.
The report of Justice inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, found that Gonzales put at risk at least some fragments of the terrorist surveillance program of the National Security Agency and interrogation of terrorist detainees. Some aspects of the monitoring programme to which reference was made explicit in the documents were "strictly protected" by the security agency, according to the report.
Fine referred the case to the National Security Division (NSD, for its acronym in English) of the Department of Justice to determine whether to file charges against Gonzales. But prosecutors dismissed the case after an internal review that began earlier this year, said Justice Department spokesman, Dean Boyd.
"After conducting a careful review on the matter and to consult with officials with extensive experience inside and outside the division, the NSD finally determined that the indictment should be quashed," said Boyd said in a statement.
The annulment of the charges against Gonzales indignant at Democrat John Conyers, chairman of the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives, who demanded to know why it had been decided well.
The lawyers acknowledge that Gonzales will not save or protect the secret documents _un handwritten notes on the surveillance program and 17 documents más_ as they had done. But said they did not intend to put them at risk of someone without the authorization saw, and that there was no evidence that this had happened.
According to the report, Gonzales documents not kept in a safe place and even took them to his house. He also said that in his briefcase left unknown because the combination of the safe in their homes.
Gonzales also kept documents in a safe in his office which he had access to employees who "lacked the authorization of security for this information."
