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Posted Thursday, June 1, 2006, at 5:48 PM ET

Give the Central Intelligence Agency credit for being a few degrees more slick than the FBI when Elias sent a similar letter their way.

In other words, "Yeah, we've got 'em, but you can't have 'em."

Posted Thursday, June 1, 2006, at 5:48 PM ET
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