After carrying out a total of 126 interviews with 97 employees, the Supreme Court says in a statement that it has failed to identify the source of the judicial leak.
CNN Politics reported on Friday that an investigation into the hacking of a draft majority opinion on Roe v. Wade by conservative Justice Samuel Alito - weeks before it was scheduled to be released - failed to identify the person who leaked the information.
After carrying out a total of 126 interviews with 97 employees, the Supreme Court said in a statement that the investigation unit "has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence," noting that it was unlikely the leak had resulted from a computer hack.
Besides formal interviews, investigators carried out fingerprint analyses, "looked closely into any connections between employees and reporters,” and “especially scrutinized any contacts with anyone associated with Politico."
The report further states that dozens of people had access to the document and some even told their spouses about it, but nowhere did it state that there were legal implications tied to the violation of the court's confidentiality rules, neither did it state that justices or their spouses were investigated or interviewed.
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