Intelligence analyst says he's been made scapegoat in hacking charge

Brian Keith Montgomery, a Defense Department intelligence analyst hit with a federal computer hacking charge last week, says he's being made a scapegoat for a security slip-up that sent a password in a nationwide terrorism investigation to "tens of thousands" of analysts without the need-to-know. "I think on one of the blogs, somebody said, how about this: I give you my username and password, you log into my account, and then I file criminal charges against you," said Montgomery, in a telephone interview with Threat Level on Thursday. "That person hit it right on the head."

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