The Justice Department's inspector general has found that Alberto Gonzales mishandled top secret documents.
But the New York Times reports Thursday that secret documents authorizing harsh tactics were circulated internally.
Like its parent organization, OpenLeaks will solicit secret documents from leakers in government and business.
Ms Velazquez, who now lives in Sweden, is also accused of passing secret documents to the Cuban government.
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This theory is based on the secret documents that were discovered, according to the prosecution, among Mr Abdi's possessions.
Echelon's existence was only recently confirmed by the US Government through the declassification of secret documents of the US National Security Agency (NSA).
Despite the Justice Department's authorization, the secret documents showed that the CIA interrogators worried they would face prosecution for using the harsh techniques, Shane says.
The Pentagon has demanded that Wikileaks remove a trove of secret documents on the Afghanistan war from its website and cancel plans to publish anything more it holds.
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At the time Deutch left the agency in late 1996, CIA security officials discovered top secret documents on Deutch's home computer, which was a violation of strict CIA policy.
The judge due to preside over the inquest into the death of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is to examine secret documents to decide whether more information can be made public.
Previously secret documents show British officials covered up evidence about the assassination of a colonial governor in East Asia after World War II, fearing the truth might spark a war.
He believes he could face charges there over the release of top secret documents by Wikileaks, whose publication of a mass of leaked diplomatic cables has embarrassed a number of countries.
Last year, leaks of secret documents from the pope's private apartment -- which revealed claims of corruption within the Vatican -- prompted a high-profile trial of his butler and a behind-doors investigation by three cardinals.
Sir Robert will examine a bundle of secret documents, in the company of counsel for Foreign Secretary William Hague, to decide if more can be made public on the government's reasons for wanting each of the documents kept secret.
Meanwhile, some Democrats have expressed concern over the government's use of unmanned drones to carry out "targeted killings", and have suggested a vote on Mr Brennan should be delayed until the committee can review certain secret documents relating to the programme.
All Top Secret declassified documents were excluded, too, because no digital versions of them were made available.
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The Obama administration has been under growing pressure from politicians in Congress to share more details of its drone strike programme, including secret legal documents.
John Young, a New-York-based architect and political activist, was publishing secret intelligence documents on his enigmatic website when Julian Assange had yet to even drop out of college.
The Vatican said Monday that a report by three cardinals into leaks of secret Vatican documents, ordered by Benedict last year and seen only by him, would be passed on to the new pontiff.
So did the interior minister, Rumen Petkov, after reports that a drug gang had obtained secret internal documents from his ministry, and that illegal booze producers had traded money for favours from a senior crime-fighter.
The committee had wanted to hear his evidence in secret but the documents were subsequently leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
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Coming up, we're going to go to South Africa where critics are trying to sound the alarm about a new bill that would classify many documents as secret and impose stiff penalties on those who view them.
Pte Manning has been widely named as the prime suspect, and in March 2011, the US Army charged him with 22 extra counts relating to the unauthorised possession and distribution of more than 720, 000 secret diplomatic and military documents.
The documents reportedly included secret information about Nato operations.
In a chest of drawers beside my bed, I hide my dirtiest secret: all of my financial documents.
The intelligence analyst, who joined the US Army in 2007, is accused of leaking 720, 000 secret military and diplomatic US government documents.
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