-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Ex-CIA chief may lose all clearances Cohen: Deutch retains access to some secret information ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — The Pentagon is examining whether to end all security clearances for former CIA director John Deutch, Defense Secretary William Cohen said Monday. COHEN ACKNOWLEDGED for the first time that Deutch has maintained access to “some top-secret information in terms of a narrow area of technology,” even though the CIA revoked his clearances at the agency last summer because he had kept classified documents on a home computer. The Pentagon’s inspector general has now asked the CIA for its evidence on Deutch’s security breaches, Cohen said at a news conference. “I think it should have been done sooner, but it was not,” Cohen said. He said the CIA apparently had offered no information about Deutch previously, so his industrial security clearance at the Pentagon was not reviewed. Limited industrial clearances are normally given to defense contractors. Cohen said the Pentagon revoked Deutch’s broad security clearances last August, including access to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the nation ’s main military intelligence service. But as a defense industry consultant, Deutch retained limited clearances, Cohen said. He said taking them away would require a legal determination. “There must be a compelling level of evidence that would support removing him from income-producing activities,” Cohen said. Defense Department lawyers will have to decide whether the evidence against him is “sufficient that we can, with due-process, terminate the relationship,” he said. Before becoming CIA director, Deutch had served as deputy secretary of defense from 1994 to 1995. He now acts as a consultant for several organizations with defense contracts. Cohen said he has no evidence Deutch had compromised any Pentagon intelligence or operations in his activities. He described Deutch as “fairly aggressive in his work habits in working long hours, and I assume that had something to do with” his taking work home. But he said the Pentagon had not determined whether he had done that with defense documents. After news reports Saturday that Deutch retained industrial security clearances at the Pentagon, the Defense Department inspector general contacted the CIA to provide evidence to help determine whether all Deutch’s clearances can be dropped, Cohen said. The industrial clearance allows Deutch, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to serve as a paid consultant on defense contracts with the MIT, SAIC Corp. and Raytheon Corp., Pentagon officials said. Meanwhile, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss, R-Fla., expressed surprise Monday that Deutch had kept his Pentagon security clearances even after having his CIA ones revoked. “I believe that the removal of access to sensitive material should apply universally,” Goss said in an interview. A former CIA intelligence officer himself, Goss said Deutch’s “admission that he used bad judgment” should result in a penalty that would apply equally to the Pentagon. He said his panel is continuing to review the matter and has not decided whether to attempt to get testimony from Deutch. The Senate Intelligence Committee, meanwhile, was to meet privately Tuesday with the CIA’s inspector general, Britt Snider, and was waiting to hear whether Deutch would agree to its request that he appear. © 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. -------- Sec. 107. 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[CTRL] Ex-CIA chief may lose all clearances
Shane A. Saylor, Eccentric Bard Tue, 8 Feb 2000 09:45:11 -0800
