Homeland Security Is Spilling a Lot of Secrets
The Department of Homeland Security suffered over 100 "spills" of
classified information last year, 40 percent of which came from one
office, according to a leaked internal document I obtained. Officials
and lawmakers told me that until the Department imposes stricter
policies and sounder practices to better protect sensitive intelligence,
the vulnerabilities there could be exploited. Not only does this raise
the threat that hostile actors could get their hands on classified
information, but may lead to other U.S. agencies keeping DHS out of the
loop on major security issues.
A spill is not the same as an
unauthorized disclosure of classified information. A Homeland Security
official explained that spills often include “the accidental,
inadvertent, or intentional introduction of classified information into
an unclassified information technology system, or higher-level
classified information into a lower-level classified information
technology system, to include non-government systems.”
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