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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is belatedly accusing a fired air marshal of disseminating sensitive information, nearly four years after the officer leaked an embarrassing but routine memo on reducing hotel costs.
The administration argues that ex-marshal Robert MacLean, 37, who is trying to win his job back, should have known the unlabeled memo he received on his unsecured cell phone was considered "sensitive security information."
MacLean, who admits he gave the memo to a reporter, counters there was no way to tell that air marshal officials would designate the cost-cutting plan years later as sensitive national security information. He was fired in April 2006.
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