If you wondered why our favorite archive was a bit slow, this is why. So now don't all of you go off and add to the load -- you probably won't get in anyway. Either lots of people like pulling down documents they aren't supposed to have, or perhaps some spook agency worldwide is doing a distributed denial-of-service attack on his site. John Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:16:09 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FC: More on John Young, CIA files, and FBI pressure My article from Friday: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37718,00.html AP followup from Saturday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000722/aponline185612_000.htm Washington Post article that appeared on page A2 on Sunday: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28051-2000Jul22.html Druge late Saturday: XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT JULY 22 2000 18:02:48 ET XXXXX WEB LEAK SPOOKS THE SPOOKS; SECRET CIA DOCS END UP ONLINE A secret CIA report of the U.S. intelligence community has been posted on the Internet! <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000722/aponline185612_000.h tm> The CIA briefing, prepared for visiting Japanese intelligence officials has appeared on CRYPTOME, an Internet site [ http://jya.com/crypto.htm ] <http://jya.com/crypto.htmhttp://jya.com/crypto.htm> , which is run by activists opposed to government secrecy. CRYPTOME's webmaster, John Young, tells Sunday's WASHINGTON POST that he posted the secret CIA document, together with lists naming hundreds of agents from Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency, after receiving the documents from a source in Japan. CIA officials have not asked Young to remove the briefing, but two FBI agents called him on Thursday and forwarded a request from the Japanese Ministry of Justice that the lists be removed. "Young refused, saying publication of the lists contributed to public awareness of how government agencies function," reports the POST. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------