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　　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 clearance³ 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 expertise⁴ would be expected to possess.”

　　The spokesman also called the hacking⁵ a crime.

　　“The Brennan family is the victim,” the spokesman said. “The private electronic holdings of the Brennan family were plundered⁶ with malicious⁷ 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 hijacked⁸ 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 Conundrum⁹ of Iran,” warns that Tehran’s ongoing¹⁰ use of terrorism is “particularly alarming and insidious,” but also bemoans¹¹ “the gratuitous¹² labeling of Iran as part of an 'axis¹³ 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 rhetoric¹⁴.

　　“Iran’s importance to U.S. strategic interests and to overall stability in the region necessitates¹⁵ 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. envoy¹⁶ to Iran to facilitate the process.

　　WikiLeaks posted a 2008 letter from former U.S. Senator Kit¹⁷ Bond to other senators about Bond’s own proposal to curb¹⁸ 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 blackmail¹⁹ 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 confidential²⁰ data.”

　　Law enforcement officials say they are looking into the hijacking²¹ of the CIA director’s private email account.

　　“The FBI is investigating this matter jointly²² with the U.S. Secret Service,” the FBI said in a statement. “Because this is an ongoing investigation²³, we are restricted from commenting further.”

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