Source: Denver Federal Agent ID'd In Attack Ad Leak

FBI Joins Probe In Beauprez's Ad Against Ritter

7News
October 19, 2006

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has identified the person who leaked confidential information from a federal database that was used in an attack ad aired by GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez, 7News reported.

Law enforcement sources told 7News that a federal law enforcement officer in Denver was identified as the person who accessed the database....

The question is how the information got to the Beauprez campaign and if the campaign knew that laws were being broken.

The attack ad blasts Democratic candidate Bill Ritter for allegedly being soft on crime, turning a heroin dealer, Carlos Estrada Medina, loose to prey upon others, including a child in California.

The connection between the two crimes was made by a federal agent using the Crime Information Center, a secure federal database available only to law-enforcement officials, 7NEWS reported. "Because this is a federally controlled and regulated system, CBI has requested the assistance of the FBI to further pursue the investigation," said CBI Director Robert Cantwell. "The FBI and CBI will be working jointly to complete the investigation."...

Use of the federal criminal database for any purpose other than law enforcement is a crime punishable by fines and up to a year in prison.

The ad said that when Ritter was the district attorney for Denver he agreed to a plea bargain with Medina and that Medina was not deported. Medina was later arrested in California on suspicion of sexually assaulting a minor, the ad says.

Medina used an alias in arrest databases maintained by Colorado and California but a federal NCIC number was used to connect his alias to his real name, Ritter's campaign said.

Ritter's campaign had suggested that the information came from confidential federal records and demanded that Beauprez explain how it was obtained....

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