维基解密公布CIA局长电邮

 　　WASHINGTON—Information from the private email account of CIA Director John Brennan is being made public, just days after hackers 1 bragged 2 they had broken in.

　　WikiLeaks on Thursday posted several documents from the account, including what appear to be drafts of papers about the challenges facing the U.S. intelligence community and recommendations for how the U.S. should deal with Iran.
　　The anti-secrecy website also posted a draft of Brennan’s security clearance 3 application, which contained personal information, such as a Social Security number.
　　WikiLeaks defended its actions, saying Brennan “used the account occasionally for several intelligence-related projects,” adding that it planned to release additional documents in the coming days.
　　WikiLeaks Posts Info From CIA Director Personal Email
　　CIA counters
　　A CIA spokesman rejected the website’s claims.
　　“There is no indication that any of the documents released thus far are classified,” the spokesman said, describing them instead as “documents that a private citizen with national security interests and expertise 4 would be expected to possess.”
　　The spokesman also called the hacking 5 a crime.
　　“The Brennan family is the victim,” the spokesman said. “The private electronic holdings of the Brennan family were plundered 6 with malicious 7 intent and are now being distributed across the Web.”
　　The documents posted on WikiLeaks appear to have come from a high school student who told the New York Post earlier this week that he'd hijacked 8 the CIA director’s personal email account to protest American foreign policy.
　　The documents posted by WikiLeaks on Thursday all date to a time before Brennan joined the administration of President Barack Obama.
　　Draft paper
　　One paper from 2007, titled “The Conundrum 9 of Iran,” warns that Tehran’s ongoing 10 use of terrorism is “particularly alarming and insidious,” but also bemoans 11 “the gratuitous 12 labeling of Iran as part of an 'axis 13 of evil' by President Bush” following the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the U.S.
　　The draft paper recommends the next president of the United States “tone down” the rhetoric 14.
　　“Iran’s importance to U.S. strategic interests and to overall stability in the region necessitates 15 the establishment of direct and senior-level dialogue,” Brennan wrote, suggesting Washington “hold out meaningful carrots as well as sticks.”
　　The paper also suggested naming former Secretary of State Colin Powell as a special U.S. envoy 16 to Iran to facilitate the process.
　　WikiLeaks posted a 2008 letter from former U.S. Senator Kit 17 Bond to other senators about Bond’s own proposal to curb 18 CIA interrogation techniques. It also posted what appeared to be Bond's draft legislation.
　　“There’s unlikely to be any real geopolitical fallout,” said Patrick Skinner, a former U.S. intelligence official who is now director of special projects at the Soufan Group, a private intelligence firm.
　　“Other intelligence agencies would look for information to either blackmail 19 or socially engineer a pitch, but the CIA director isn't a realistic target for those services,” Skinner said. “This is much more narrow and personal.”
　　Vulnerabilities exposed
　　Government officials and private experts say the incident also demonstrates the vulnerabilities of an environment in which a need for fast and easy communication has outpaced the ability of agencies and companies to safeguard information.
　　“It is one of the most critical threats right now,” said Saryu Nayyar, CEO of Gurucul, a company that provides identity-based threat detection.
　　“It’s happening many times a day at any organization,” she said. “Hackers get into an environment, behave like insiders and exfiltrate critical intellectual property and confidential 20 data.”
　　Law enforcement officials say they are looking into the hijacking 21 of the CIA director’s private email account.
　　“The FBI is investigating this matter jointly 22 with the U.S. Secret Service,” the FBI said in a statement. “Because this is an ongoing investigation 23, we are restricted from commenting further.”