Thursday, June 12, 2008

Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese - Yahoo! News

Secret government officials discouraged U.S. congressman from disclosing Chinese espionage... but why? Public servants should be forced to testify upon command.

Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese - Yahoo! News:

"Wolf said the FBI had told him that computers of other House members and at least one House committee had been accessed by sources working from inside China. The Virginia Republican suggested that Senate computers could have been attacked as well.

He said the hacking of computers in his Capitol Hill office began in August 2006, that he had known about it for a long time and that he had been discouraged from disclosing it by people in the U.S. government he refused to identify.

'The problem has been that no one wants to talk about this issue,' he said. 'Every time I've started to do something I've been told 'You can't do this.' A lot of people have made it very, very difficult.'

The FBI and the White House declined to comment."

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