Posted on 05/30/2002 10:23:36 PM PDT by kattracks
Former CIA Director John M. Deutch, who previously admitted to mishandling sensitive data while heading the CIA, is now being investigated by the Defense Department for similar incidents, according to The Washington Post. Defense Department documents allege that Deutch used unsecured computers at home and his America Online account to access classified defense information in the early to mid-1990s when he held high-ranking jobs at the Pentagon, the Post said in Saturday's issue. ``We find his conduct in this regard particularly egregious in light of existing DOD policy directives addressing the safeguarding of classified information,'' the Post quoted an internal Defense Department memo as saying. ``This situation was exacerbated because Dr. Deutch, while serving as the (deputy secretary of defense), declined departmental requests that he allow security systems to be installed in his residence. ``The evidence we obtained clearly establishes that Dr. Deutch failed to follow even the most basic security precautions.''
Also, this is interesting, both for the reference to Deutch and for other reasons:
Namebase entry for GORELICK JAMIE S
These names share the indicated number of pages with the above name. Click on a name below for a standard name search: BANK CREDIT COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL 4 FREEH LOUIS JOSEPH 3 HATCH ORRIN G (R-UT) 3 HUBBELL WEBSTER LEE 3 NAQVI SWALEH 3 ALTMAN ROBERT A 2 BENNETT ROBERT S 2 BERGER SAMUEL R (SANDY) 2 FISKE ROBERT B JR 2 GLENN EUGENE F 2 MATTHEWS CHARLES III 2 POTTS LARRY A 2 SCHMIDT JOHN R 2 SHAHEEN MICHAEL E JR 2 SPECTER ARLEN (R-PA) 2 ABEDI AGHA HASAN 1 AFTERGOOD STEVEN 1 ALBRIGHT MADELEINE K 1 ARKY STEPHEN W 1 BASS KENNETH C III 1 BEN-AMI JEREMY 1 BODINE BARBARA K 1 BUTLER GEORGE LEE (GEN) 1 CADIGAN JAMES (FBI) 1 CLARKE FLOYD I 1 CLEVELAND HARLAN B 1 COULSON DANNY O 1 DAMATO ALFONSE M (R-NY) 1 DAMATO ARMAND 1 DEMPSEY JAMES X 1 DEUTCH JOHN MARK 1 DEVINE JOHN J 1 DI GENOVA JOSEPH E 1 DICKS NORMAN D (D-WA) 1 EDWARDS DON (D-CA) 1 EMANUEL RAHM I 1 EWTON RONNIE R 1 FEINSTEIN DIANNE (D-CA) 1 FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK 1 FOSTER JOHN S JR 1 GAINES WEAVER H 1 GILMAN BENJAMIN (R-NY) 1 GINGRICH NEWTON L (R-GA) 1 GIROIR C JOSEPH 1 GLICKMAN DAN (D-KS) 1 HARBURY JENNIFER K 1 HEYMANN PHILIP B 1 HOLDER ERIC H JR 1 ISHAM JOANNE O 1 JEREMIAH DAVID E (ADM) 1 JOHNSON LOCH K 1 KELLY KEVIN (MAGAZINE EDITOR) 1 KERR DONALD M JR 1 KERR RICHARD J 1 KERREY BOB (D-NE) 1 KIM JEONG H 1 LANCE BERT 1 LAWRENCE MICHAEL G 1 LEFFERT ANTHONY 1 LEWIS JERRY (R-CA) 1 LIEBERMAN EVELYN 1 MARTIN KATE 1 MCDADE JOSEPH M (R-PA) 1 METZGER EUGENE J 1 MILLER CASSIDY LARROCA LEWIN 1 MORGENTHAU ROBERT MORRIS 1 NAKLEH ISSA 1 OWENS WILLIAM A (ADM) 1 PAINTER RICHARD 1 PENNY TIMOTHY J (D-MN) 1 PURDUE RILEY 1 RENO JANET 1 RICHELSON JEFFREY T 1 ROY JAMES STAPLETON 1 RYAN JOHN E (RTC) 1 RYAN MARY A 1 SAFIRE WILLIAM L 1 SCHNEIDER WILLIAM JR 1 SCOWCROFT BRENT 1 SMITH GARY L 1 STEELE ROBERT DAVID 1 STEPHENS INC 1 STEPHENS JACKSON THOMAS 1 STERN GERALD 1 STUDEMAN WILLIAM O (ADM) 1 SYSTEMATICS INC (LITTLE ROCK) 1 TURNER RICHARD G 1 VAJDA WILLIAM E 1 WARNER MARVIN 1 YOUNG C.W.(BILL) (R-FL) 1
David Burnham, Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice, Scribner: 1996, 313:
On April 19, 1995, a massive car bomb exploded outside of the federal office building in Oklahoma City. . .Two weeks after the horrific Oklahoma event, Clinton sent to Congress the "Antiterrorism Amendments Acts of 1995". . .In addition to the proposed changes to the law, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick and FBI Director Louis Freeh announced that they had decided to reinterpret twenty-year-old Justice Department guidelines originally put in place to restrain the FBI from violating the constitutional rights of dissidents. "If those guidelines are interpreted broadly and proactively, as opposed to defensively, as has been the case for many years, I feel confident. . .we have sufficient authority," Freeh told a Senate Committee. William Safire, the conservative New York Times columnist with libertarian leanings, was appalled. . .
He claims he did it so he could work at home. Is it possible he was intentionally exposing classified information? It could have been picked up by a back door at AOL, a tap on his home phone line, or off of his hard drive.
I used to do something like that to store FR threads I was reading at work: I'd open FR in one Window and in another Window I'd log into my email account using my server's remote access feature; copy the info I wanted into an email addressed to myself; then email myself so that when I got home and downloaded my emails from my server I'd have a storage copy on my PC. Of course I wasn't the Director of the CIA, so I wasn't concerned about security issues. But if someone had wanted to intercept my email when I was doing that, all they'd need to do would be to remotely log into my email account before I downloaded it from my server to my PC.
WASHINGTON, May 30 — With admissions this week that the F.B.I. might have been able to foil the Sept. 11 attacks and that it had bungled additional clues, Robert S. Mueller III has contradicted much of his past public defense of the bureau, raising new concern today on Capitol Hill about his leadership of the embattled agency.
Lawmakers said in interviews that the F.B.I. director was secure in his job for now and that they welcomed the plans he announced on Wednesday to change and enlarge the bureau's counterterrorism program.
But they said a review of his public remarks about the Sept. 11 investigation had raised uncomfortable questions about the F.B.I. director's credibility and about his ability to gather accurate information from his deputies.
Mr. Mueller's credibility was harshly attacked in a letter made public last weekend in which a Minneapolis agent said the F.B.I. director was engaged in a public relations campaign "to protect the F.B.I. at all costs" after Sept. 11.
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