The FBI admitted it accidentally gave classified documents back to the American translator who had pleaded guilty to taking them from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, who was released from jail this month, contacted the FBI’s Boston office after he realized agents had inadvertently given him -- along with his personal property -- the compact disc containing the secret files

Mehalba had the disc in his possession for a matter of hours before the FBI retrieved it, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Michael Ricciuti. “Someone in the bureau obviously made a serious mistake,” he said.