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    DHS Jeh Johnson, CIA John Brennan, hacked by Crackas With Attitude CWA

    A Teenager Claims He Hacked the CIA Director's AOL Account

    October 19, 2015
    by Helen Donahue

    A self-described teenage hacktivist snuck into CIA Director John Brennan's personal AOL email account, according to a New York Post story that broke over the weekend and got weirder on Monday.

    The teen—he and a classmate are supposedly going by the moniker CWA, or "Crackas with Attitude"—is an American high school student who suggested to the Post that he was frustrated with US foreign policy, especially when it comes to Palestine. Apparently, making the head of the CIA (who it should be noted has precious little influence on the plight of the Palestinian people) look bad was his best idea for how to resolve the situation.

    On Monday, a federal law enforcement source told CBS News that both the FBI and Secret Service are investigating the hacker and his claims. Coming amid intense scrutiny of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her use of a private email account to conduct official business, this latest hack—if verified—suggests lots of senior US government employees (read: old people) are still way behind when it comes to cybersecurity.


    According to CWA, America's top spy stashed some pretty important files in his personal email. They are said to have included a 47-page security clearance application, Social Security numbers of CIA employees, and a letter about the use of "harsh interrogation techniques" of terrorism suspects. But for what it's worth, the feds are suggesting nothing truly classified was exposed in the alleged hack, as CNN reports.


    The kid also told the tabloid that he got his hands on the Comcast billing information of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, which seems creepy more than anything else.


    The teenager further claimed to have been prank-calling Brennan for a while now, even reading his Social Security number aloud to the guy during one call to prove he was legit. (The teenager said Brennan soon hung up.)


    The wannabe hacking legend was still making the media rounds Monday, telling CNN in an interview that so far, at least, he has not been hit up by the feds. We'll see how long that lasts.


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    WikiLeaks Publishes CIA Director John Brennan's Emails


    • By KEN DILANIAN AND STEPHEN BRAUN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

    WASHINGTON — Oct 21, 2015, 5:34 PM ET

    The WikiLeaks organization posted material Wednesday from what appears to be CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account, including a draft security clearance application containing personal information.

    The material presumably was taken in a compromise of Brennan's email account by a hacker who told The New York Post he is a high school student protesting American foreign policy. The hacker claimed he posed as a Verizon employee and tricked another employee into revealing Brennan's personal information.


    Brennan was seeking a security clearance while applying for a job as White House counterterrorism adviser. It was not immediately clear whether any national security information was compromised in the release of the clearance application, which includes his wife's Social Security number and the names of people Brennan worked with over a long prior career at the CIA.


    A CIA statement called the postings a "crime."


    "The Brennan family is the victim," the agency said in an unattributed statement, in keeping with agency policy. "This attack is something that could happen to anyone and should be condemned, not promoted. There is no indication that any the documents released thus far are classified. In fact, they appear to be documents that a private citizen with national security interests and expertise would be expected to possess."


    The documents all date from before 2009, when Brennan joined the White House staff; before that, he was working in the private sector. Aside from the partially completed clearance application, none of the documents appears to be sensitive.


    In a section of his security clearance application covering foreign contacts, Brennan writes that in August 2007: "I have had lunch twice and dinner once with Alan Lovell, a U.K. colleague with whom I worked closely during the last three years of my government career.

    Alan is currently posted at the U.K. Embassy in Washington."


    Brennan's "government career" to that point consisted of decades at the CIA. It's not clear what Lovell's role was at the British Embassy. The State Department in 2009 listed Lovell as a "counselor" in the British Embassy. His LinkedIn profile currently lists him as working at the British Ministry of Defense.


    The documents include a partially written position paper on the future of intelligence, a memo on Iran, a paper from a Republican lawmaker on CIA interrogations and a summary of a contract dispute between the CIA and Brennan's private company, the Analysis Corporation, which had filed a formal protest after losing a contract dealing with terrorist watch lists.


    In a post-election memo, purportedly written to Obama, Brennan laid out a pragmatic roadmap on dealings with Iran. His suggestions are similar to the carrot-and-stick approach the administration would eventually use in nudging Tehran toward joining negotiations over slowing the momentum of its growing nuclear reactor program.

    "The United States has no choice but to find ways to coexist — and to come to terms — with whatever government holds power in Tehran," Brennan said in the three-page memo. He added that Iran would have to "come to terms" with the U.S. and that "Tehran's ability to advance its political and economic interests rests on a non-hostile relationship with the United States and the West."

    In the memo, Brennan advised Obama to "tone down" rhetoric with Iran, and swiped at former President George W. Bush for his "gratuitous" labeling of Iran as part of a worldwide "axis of evil."

    Brennan also said the U.S. should establish a direct dialogue with Tehran and "seek realistic, measurable steps." Although he didn't specifically call for the regime of financial sanctions that the Obama administration, along with Europe, Russia and China, pushed against Iran, Brennan told the president-elect to "hold out meaningful carrots as well as sticks."


    A 2008 letter from then-Sen. Kit Bond to colleagues describes Bond's proposal to curb CIA interrogation techniques in a less restrictive way than requiring the agency to adhere to the Army field manual, which was what Obama ultimately did.


    A related document appears to be legislation reflecting Bond's proposal, which would have prohibited the agency from engaging in interrogation techniques prohibited by the Army field manual, rather than restricting it to only those techniques allowed by the manual.

    But there is no way to know why Brennan had the letter or what his views on it were. He has defended brutal CIA interrogations as having produced good intelligence while supporting Obama's decision to ban them.

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