Can You Keep a Secret?

The Central Intelligence Agency is investigating 160 employees after a covert “chat room” was discovered on the agency’s computer network during a security sweep. While the “misuse of computers” did not involve “the compromise of any classified information,” CIA spokesman Bill Harlow says the chat room involved “multiple violations of CIA computer regulations” including “inappropriate” and “off-color” messages. “The serious thing for us is people willfully misusing the computer system and trying to hide what they were trying to do,” an anonymous intelligence official said. “If they were doing this with the KGB’s system, we’d be giving them medals. Sadly, it was ours.” (AP) ...Yes, well, practice makes perfect.