I just read that John Deutch, ex director of the CIA, may have compromised the most important and top secret data this country has.

Apparently this overpaid arrogant ass downloaded thousands of documents and took them home to his computer, defying all rules to the contrary, and it is possible that all of this info was hacked! Agents checking his computer found where he had e-mailed a Russian scientist!

This is simply the final straw for me ... I will not pay taxes for an agency that is so incompetent and down-right traitorous as this. Why not save us all a lot of tlme and money and just give all our secrets to the other foreign powers?

Thousands of brave ,dead GI.s must be looking down on this mess in sorrow and wondering why they fought at all, simply to turn our security over to a bunch of bumbling idiots.

-- Citizen (lost@sea.com), February 02, 2000

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Here in Canada, we've had 2 incidents lately where employees of our version of the CIA (CSIS) have let sensitive information fall into the hands of private citizens. One was a disk found by somebody on a shelf in a phone booth that turned out to have classified info on it, and the second was when a CSIS employee left her briefcase in her car to attend a hockey game and her car was broken into. I never though I'd be glad that we have no secrets worth worrying about, but still, incompetence is incompetence.

-- Steve Baxter (chicoqh@home.com), February 02, 2000.

Do you believe him when he denied accessing porno sites?

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), February 02, 2000.

Why do you think I keep harping on the linked data bases in the WIA system? Trust me, all it takes is a few bucks to the right person, a couple of keystrokes and you can be in deep s***. I had the (displeasure) of observing one of my colleagues repeatedly use the data base in our shop to get information for a relative who ran a P.I. business. Yes, I did report it and no, nothing was done.Here it's a Good Ole Boy and/or TonTon Macoute system. To cope with the dangers posed by new I.T. the citizenry needs to demand tight security and be able to monitor what the hell their government is doing.That, bros, takes time, effort and research. Hack and Hacked

-- another government hack (keep_watching2000@aol.com), February 02, 2000.

Sorry, that e-mail's @ yahoo. Spending more time writing and receiving tonight than in the last three weeks put together.

-- another government hack (keepwatching2000@yahoo.com), February 02, 2000.

I saw someone down the post office the other day mailing documents to Russia. Apparently even though it was only correspondance, a customs form had to be filled in. Wouldn't you think they would apply the same security procedures to people in a position to expose national security secrets? I.E. Checking of materials being taken from the premises.

-- Gia (laureltree7@hotmail.com), February 03, 2000.

according to the article i read on this he is in NO danger of criminal charges for this! ughhhhh! yea, right! but he better be careful not to ever SLEEP in central park, or his butt goes to jail!

-- mutter (murmur@ya.com), February 03, 2000.

Gia,

When I started work (for a defense contractor) everyone leaving the building was checked out by a guard. All material.....briefcases, folders, etc.....was examined to see if anything classified was being taken out. When we came in in the morning we had to present our identification to the guards.

In the name of efficiency, the guards were fired and we went to a fully electronic system. Everyone must have the credentials to enter the particular area they are trying to enter. But, once in, no check is made to see what people are leaving with. Electronic systems don't do that -- yet. [LOL....I could have walked out with a computer and no one would say a thing. I could have walked out with all sorts of classified documents and no one would say a thing. Yes, there is document accountability for secret paper documents......but I could have copied a lot of material at Kinko's, and then returned the original. Floppy discs are really easy.]

Most people are very scrupulous about not doing these things. But, it only takes one to nullify the system.

But, the newer systems are sold as "improved" security. Can you say "lower cost?"

-- rocky (rknolls@no.spam), February 03, 2000.