January 5, 2007
Effort to Recover Leaked Documents Ends
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has abandoned its effort to recover government documents leaked to Jack Anderson, a longtime investigative reporter who died in December 2005. The documents, which some officials said might hold classified information, were among Mr. Anderson’s confidential papers and touched off a dispute between the F.B.I. and the journalist’s family and biographer. The F.B.I. decision was disclosed in an answer to a questionnaire from the Senate Judiciary Committee, dated Nov. 30, by James H. Clinger, acting associate attorney general. An F.B.I. spokesman declined comment.