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US data hack is an excuse for new regulations on internet: Analyst

Steven Kelley said the US is trying to make an excuse to impose new regulations upon the internet.

The US is trying to make an excuse to impose new regulations upon the internet in the wake of new revelations that the personal data of millions of government employees were affected by a cyber breach, says former CIA contractor Steven Kelley.

FBI Director James Comey said in a closed-door briefing to senators in recent weeks that 18 million current, former and prospective federal employees were affected.

The affected people could have been people who applied for government jobs, but never actually ended up working for the government.

“What they’re really trying to do here is they’re trying to set up an excuse to suggest that somehow there is hack as a matter of national security and now they have justification to impose new regulations upon the internet,” Kelley told Press TV in an interview on Wednesday.

According to US officials briefed on the investigation, the data is far more than four times the 4.2 million the Office of Personnel Management has publicly acknowledged.

“Regarding this alleged leak of data from the Office of Personnel Management, I have to say this reminds me so much of the foxes reporting to the wolves about the death of the chickens,” Kelley said.

“Obviously these organizations are all dirty and if the FBI is posing as the good guy in this situation, clearly with what’s going on with the NSA, we know that the US government is the largest hacker of all its people and as far as the integrity of all our data, there is no integrity. We have to know about that. We have to know that all of our data is subject to scrutiny about the NSA phone calls, everything, and even your medical records,” he explained.

The former CIA contractor believes that “this is part of the Obama plan.”

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