In a message dated 03/02/2000 7:56:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Mario's Cyberspace Station http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /'_|'0 \'V'/'\|'|'__|'|'|'/'_| \_'\''_/\'/|'\\'|'_||'V'V'\_'\ |__/_|'.//'|_|\_|___|\_n_/|__/ Wednesday, March 01, 2000 Panel To Subpoena Ex-CIA Official http ://www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=ColYJ0dicq0Lbrgv1DgnO&FQ Associated Press Online - March 01, 2000 18:47 By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena former CIA general counsel Michael J. O'Neil after he refused to voluntarily appear before the panel in its inquiry into former CIA Director John Deutch's home computer security breaches. The unanimous vote requires O'Neil to appear before the committee next Wednesday. The panel has planned a closed-door meeting to question O'Neil on whether he withheld information about his former boss from agency investigators and the Justice Department, members said. Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said in an interview, "I'm sure he'll assert the Fifth Amendment, but we want him to do it in front of the committee." O'Neil's attorney, Roger Spaeder, had notified the panel that he advised O'Neil not to appear since the Justice Department was taking a new look at the Deutch computer case. A key issue in the case is why it took so long for the CIA to react to December 1966 information that Deutch had stored highly classified material on home computers also used to access the Internet. "On behalf of Mr. O'Neil, I can represent to the committee that if compelled to appear, Mr. O'Neil would decline to testify about all matters under investigation by invoking his constitutional privilege," Spaeder said in a letter to the panel. O'Neil, who left the agency in October 1997, at first declined to turn over computer storage cards from Deutch's computers and delayed notifying the Justice Department of the matter, according to an unclassified version of an internal CIA inspector general's report released by the committee last week. That report found that Deutch, CIA director from May 1995 to December 1996, processed thousands of highly classified documents on unprotected home computers that he and family members used to connect the Internet. Now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Deutch was stripped of most of his security clearances by CIA Director George Tenet last August. As a former deputy defense secretary, Deutch also had Pentagon clearances, but he voluntarily gave them up earlier this month. Deutch has apologized for his behavior, both in private testimony to the Intelligence Committee and in a brief appearance before reporters last week. But both the Senate panel and the Justice Department want to know why it took the CIA so long to notify them after discovering in December 1996 that Deutch had mishandled classified material. The CIA agency did not submit a report to the Justice Department until March 1998 and did not notify congressional oversight panels until June 1998. The current director, George Tenet, has apologized for the delay but said it wasn't intentional. According to the CIA inspector general's report, Mr. O'Neil and Nora Slatkin, the CIA's former executive director and now an official with Citigroup, acted in a manner that "had the effect of delaying a prompt investigation of this matter." Slatkin has agreed to appear before the committee. The report also suggested that O'Neil had failed to send a "crimes report" to the Justice Department, despite evidence that laws may have been violated, and withheld information from the House and Senate intelligence committees. Spaeder, O'Neil's lawyer, did not return a phone call. But in his letter to the panel, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, Spaeder suggested that O'Neil would be prepared to cooperate if the committee agreed to vote to give him immunity from prosecution. Otherwise, "Mr. O'Neil's recollection of the relevant events is already available to the committee in the inspector general's report," the letter said. Shelby said he did not anticipate that the panel would agree to give O'Neil immunity. 0000000000000000000000000000000000000 *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to SPYNEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml *** Mario Profaca, SPY NEWS uGroup list owner, editor & moderator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>
Mario's Cyberspace Station http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /'_|'0 \'V'/'\|'|'__|'|'|'/'_| \_'\''_/\'/|'\\'|'_||'V'V'\_'\ |__/_|'.//'|_|\_|___|\_n_/|__/ Wednesday, March 01, 2000 Panel To Subpoena Ex-CIA Official http ://www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=ColYJ0dicq0Lbrgv1DgnO&FQ Associated Press Online - March 01, 2000 18:47 By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena former CIA general counsel Michael J. O'Neil after he refused to voluntarily appear before the panel in its inquiry into former CIA Director John Deutch's home computer security breaches. The unanimous vote requires O'Neil to appear before the committee next Wednesday. The panel has planned a closed-door meeting to question O'Neil on whether he withheld information about his former boss from agency investigators and the Justice Department, members said. Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said in an interview, "I'm sure he'll assert the Fifth Amendment, but we want him to do it in front of the committee." O'Neil's attorney, Roger Spaeder, had notified the panel that he advised O'Neil not to appear since the Justice Department was taking a new look at the Deutch computer case. A key issue in the case is why it took so long for the CIA to react to December 1966 information that Deutch had stored highly classified material on home computers also used to access the Internet. "On behalf of Mr. O'Neil, I can represent to the committee that if compelled to appear, Mr. O'Neil would decline to testify about all matters under investigation by invoking his constitutional privilege," Spaeder said in a letter to the panel. O'Neil, who left the agency in October 1997, at first declined to turn over computer storage cards from Deutch's computers and delayed notifying the Justice Department of the matter, according to an unclassified version of an internal CIA inspector general's report released by the committee last week. That report found that Deutch, CIA director from May 1995 to December 1996, processed thousands of highly classified documents on unprotected home computers that he and family members used to connect the Internet. Now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Deutch was stripped of most of his security clearances by CIA Director George Tenet last August. As a former deputy defense secretary, Deutch also had Pentagon clearances, but he voluntarily gave them up earlier this month. Deutch has apologized for his behavior, both in private testimony to the Intelligence Committee and in a brief appearance before reporters last week. But both the Senate panel and the Justice Department want to know why it took the CIA so long to notify them after discovering in December 1996 that Deutch had mishandled classified material. The CIA agency did not submit a report to the Justice Department until March 1998 and did not notify congressional oversight panels until June 1998. The current director, George Tenet, has apologized for the delay but said it wasn't intentional. According to the CIA inspector general's report, Mr. O'Neil and Nora Slatkin, the CIA's former executive director and now an official with Citigroup, acted in a manner that "had the effect of delaying a prompt investigation of this matter." Slatkin has agreed to appear before the committee. The report also suggested that O'Neil had failed to send a "crimes report" to the Justice Department, despite evidence that laws may have been violated, and withheld information from the House and Senate intelligence committees. Spaeder, O'Neil's lawyer, did not return a phone call. But in his letter to the panel, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, Spaeder suggested that O'Neil would be prepared to cooperate if the committee agreed to vote to give him immunity from prosecution. Otherwise, "Mr. O'Neil's recollection of the relevant events is already available to the committee in the inspector general's report," the letter said. Shelby said he did not anticipate that the panel would agree to give O'Neil immunity. 0000000000000000000000000000000000000 *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to SPYNEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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