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...JOHN DEUTCH Ex-CIA big surfed using secret-laden home PC. What can you get for Trident subs on eBay...
...careless can an intelligence chief be? JOHN DEUTCH, former CIA director, seems to have been very careless indeed. In 1995 and 1996 he shunned a secure CIA computer, opting to compose 74 documents containing highly classified information, including memos to the President and Cabinet members, on an unsecure Macintosh at his home. Worse, he used the same computer for personal e-mail, receiving a note from a former Russian citizen living in Western Europe. Deutch family members also surfed the Web on it; one visited porn sites...
...fear, experts say, is that while Deutch used his computer for surfing the Internet and sending e-mail, he could have exposed all of his documents to hackers. "If the data is insecure" - as it was in this case - "it's theoretically possible that someone could install a so-called Trojan horse on Deutch's computer without his knowledge," says TIME technology reporter Chris Taylor. "It would have appeared as an attachment on an e-mail message, and he would have had to open it to activate it. The program, once it installed itself, would allow the interlopers to view...
...John Deutch made a fantastically poor judgment call when he inadvertently exposed classified national security information to the world of Internet users via his home computer. But, say members of the Justice Department and former colleagues at the CIA, his negligence was not criminal; he simply should have known better. That's the line on Capitol Hill Thursday, as former CIA director Deutch faces the Senate Armed Services Committee and their probing line of questioning. Did he understand what was at stake when he decided to write classifed documents on his personal computer? CIA insiders, including George Tenet, the agency...
...while allegations of favoritism - and even racism - emerge as people compare the two men's cases, TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi says there is little doubt who committed the more egregious transgression. "Wen Ho Lee downloaded classified information from a secure computer to an insecure computer - while Deutch simply composed documents on an insecure computer and never transferred any classified information...