Intelligence: The Mac That Shook National Security

The Mac That Shook National Security

How 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.

Now Deutch's successor and onetime protege, George Tenet, and other agency underlings are accused...

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