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CIA head ‘outraged,’ ‘dismayed’ by email hack

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Dissent

Julian Hattem reports that CIA Director is outraged over the hack of his personal AOL account, but also upset about how the media portrayed things. Since this blog was one of many who raised the question as to whether he was improperly storing data that should not have been in his personal account, I thought it important to give his statement coverage:

“I was also dismayed at how some of the media handled it and the inferences there were,” he added.

Some media reports contained an “implication” that he was “doing something inappropriate or wrong or [in] violation of my security responsibilities” by using the personal account, Brennan added, “which was certainly not the case.”

“I think sometimes there is this ever-present thirst for trying to make something sexier and also blow it up more than it is, and also giving air to what is criminal activity and propagating information,” Brennan said. “I think that was inappropriate by some.”

Read more on The Hill. He doesn’t comment specifically on a file that had individuals’ dates of birth and Social Security numbers, and I still do have questions about the appropriateness of that – even if it turns out the document was not classified.

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1 thought on “CIA head ‘outraged,’ ‘dismayed’ by email hack”

  1. Billy Rubin says:
    October 27, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    I didn’t do anything wrong. And even if I did something that would be wrong for you to do, it’s OK for me to do it because – after all – I’m a genius (with apologies to Wile E. Coyote)

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