WikiLeaks announced on Wednesday that it has obtained a collection of CIA Director John Brennan’s emails and will publish them.
“We have obtained the contents of CIA Chief John Brennan’s email account and will be releasing it shortly,” the renegade document dumper tweeted.
Brennan’s private AOL email account was allegedly hacked earlier this week by a teenager, who told the New York Post on Sunday that part of the hacked emails included a 47-page application by Brennan for top-secret security clearance.
The hacker described himself as an “American high school student who is not Muslim and was motivated by opposition to US foreign policy and support for Palestine,” the Post reported. He told CNN that he hacked Brennan because the government is “killing innocent people, they also fund (Israel) for killing innocent people.”
The hacker later said he had two accomplices. On Monday, two Twitter accounts believed to be linked to the hackers were deactivated. Before they were shut down, one of them posted a spreadsheet with supposed current and former intelligence officers’ Social Security numbers and email addresses.
The latest WikiLeaks document dump comes after The Intercept published “The Drone Papers,” an eight-part report based on classified government documents containing information about the U.S. government’s secretive drone program from 2011-2013.
In an interview with TheWrap, ex-CIA agent Mike Baker called WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald a bunch of “celebrity fuckers.”
“These guys are celebrity fuckers; Juliane Assange and Glenn Greenwald, they love the attention, they love the celebrity and the fame that it brings them. If they say they don’t, they’re lying,” Baker said.