Supreme Court probe fails to find who leaked abortion ruling

“That analysis found viable fingerprints but no matches to any fingerprints of interest,” the report said, without disclosing the nature of the item examined.

Curley said several inquiries are pending in her probe.

“To the extent that additional investigation yields new evidence or leads, the investigators will pursue them,” she added.

In its statement, the Supreme Court said that after Curley’s investigation was completed, the court asked former federal judge, prosecutor and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to assess the probe.

Chertoff “has advised that the Marshal ‘undertook a thorough investigation’ and, ‘[a]t this time, I cannot identify any additional useful investigative measures’ not already undertaken or underway,” the court said.

In her report, Curley wrote that the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting expansion of court staff’s ability to work from home, “as well as gaps in the Court’s security policies, created an environment where it was too easy to remove sensitive information from the building and the Court’s IT networks.”

That, in turn, increased “the risk of both deliberate and accidental disclosures of Court sensitive information,” the report said.

Curley wrote that “too many” members of court staff have access to sensitive documents, and that there is “no universal written policy or guidance” on safeguarding draft opinions.

She also urged the court to address vulnerabilities in the court’s current method for destroying sensitive documents. And she wrote that the court’s “information security policies are outdated and need to be clarified and updated.”

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