Official Denies F.B.I. Was Investigating Manifesto Leak

A Justice Department official denied Monday that the F.B.I. had investigated how a manifesto by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ended up at The Huffington Post. It came to light last week that agents had approached a member of the defense team for a detainee facing trial before a military commission over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement, something the defense lawyers said improperly made him an informant. The disclosure derailed a week of pretrial hearings, and the special trial counsel, Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez, an assistant United States attorney, is leading an investigation into the matter. It was widely speculated that the subject of the F.B.I. inquiry was how the 36-page manuscript by Mr. Mohammed — the self-described architect of the attacks — had been leaked. But in a public court filing on Monday, Mr. Campoamor-Sanchez said that was not true. He did not identify the investigation’s actual subject, although he apparently offered greater details to the judge in an accompanying classified filing.

A version of this brief appears in print on April 22, 2014, on page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: Official Denies F.B.I. Was Investigating Manifesto Leak.

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