Thursday, November 13, 2008

ICE won't say whether it'll reveal who leaked immigration status of Obama's aunt.

TPM:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement won't say whether findings from its investigation into the source of an election-eve leak about the immigration status of Barack Obama's aunt will be made public.

Kelly Nantel, a spokesperson for ICE, told TPMMuckraker in an email: "I ... don't know if the results [of the probe] are made public."

Just days before the election, the Associated Press reported, sourced to a federal law enforcement official, that Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, had ignored a deportation order issued four years ago by a U.S. immigration judge. The leak appeared to be a politically motivated effort to damage Obama's candidacy at the eleventh hour.

2 comments:

airJackie said...

We know it was Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Julie Myers as she quickly resigned when Obama won the election.

Anonymous said...

That was an Atwater/Rove move if I ever saw one.