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WikiLeaks Publishes First Round of Hacked CIA Chief Emails
Former CIA Director John Brennan is said to have used the private email account 'occasionally for several intelligence related projects'
Oct 21, 2015
WikiLeaks on Wednesday began releasing documents from one of former CIA chief John Brennan's non-government email accounts, which he is said to have "used occasionally for several intelligence-related projects."
Earlier this week an individual, claiming to be a teenager, alleged that he and two other people had hacked into Brennan's AOL email account and uncovered files dealing with the CIA director's security clearance application. The hacker told the New York Post that he used a tactic called "social engineering" that involved tricking workers at Verizon into providing Brennan's personal information and duping AOL into resetting his password. The FBI and Secret Service are reportedly investigating the breach.
The unredacted documents published Wednesday include Brennan's "National Security Position" form, which WikiLeaks says "reveals a quite comprehensive social graph of the current Director of the CIA with many additional non-governmental and professional/military career details."
Other documents in the dump cover topics including "challenges for the US Intelligence Community in a post cold-war and post-9/11 world;" "the conundrum of Iran;" and "forbidden interrogation techniques."
Brennan, who defended the CIA in the wake of the Senate Torture Report, has been accused of "willfully [providing] inaccurate information and misrepresent[ing] the efficacy of torture."
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WikiLeaks on Wednesday began releasing documents from one of former CIA chief John Brennan's non-government email accounts, which he is said to have "used occasionally for several intelligence-related projects."
Earlier this week an individual, claiming to be a teenager, alleged that he and two other people had hacked into Brennan's AOL email account and uncovered files dealing with the CIA director's security clearance application. The hacker told the New York Post that he used a tactic called "social engineering" that involved tricking workers at Verizon into providing Brennan's personal information and duping AOL into resetting his password. The FBI and Secret Service are reportedly investigating the breach.
The unredacted documents published Wednesday include Brennan's "National Security Position" form, which WikiLeaks says "reveals a quite comprehensive social graph of the current Director of the CIA with many additional non-governmental and professional/military career details."
Other documents in the dump cover topics including "challenges for the US Intelligence Community in a post cold-war and post-9/11 world;" "the conundrum of Iran;" and "forbidden interrogation techniques."
Brennan, who defended the CIA in the wake of the Senate Torture Report, has been accused of "willfully [providing] inaccurate information and misrepresent[ing] the efficacy of torture."
Deirdre Fulton
Deirdre Fulton is a former Common Dreams senior editor and staff writer. Previously she worked as an editor and writer for the Portland Phoenix and the Boston Phoenix, where she was honored by the New England Press Association and the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. A Boston University graduate, Deirdre is a co-founder of the Maine-based Lorem Ipsum Theater Collective and the PortFringe theater festival. She writes young adult fiction in her spare time.
WikiLeaks on Wednesday began releasing documents from one of former CIA chief John Brennan's non-government email accounts, which he is said to have "used occasionally for several intelligence-related projects."
Earlier this week an individual, claiming to be a teenager, alleged that he and two other people had hacked into Brennan's AOL email account and uncovered files dealing with the CIA director's security clearance application. The hacker told the New York Post that he used a tactic called "social engineering" that involved tricking workers at Verizon into providing Brennan's personal information and duping AOL into resetting his password. The FBI and Secret Service are reportedly investigating the breach.
The unredacted documents published Wednesday include Brennan's "National Security Position" form, which WikiLeaks says "reveals a quite comprehensive social graph of the current Director of the CIA with many additional non-governmental and professional/military career details."
Other documents in the dump cover topics including "challenges for the US Intelligence Community in a post cold-war and post-9/11 world;" "the conundrum of Iran;" and "forbidden interrogation techniques."
Brennan, who defended the CIA in the wake of the Senate Torture Report, has been accused of "willfully [providing] inaccurate information and misrepresent[ing] the efficacy of torture."
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