‘I only wanted to change US foreign policy’

A British teenager who hacked into CIA boss John Brennan’s email account during a campaign of harassment against top US officials and trolled intelligence agencies on Twitter was just trying to change US foreign policy, a court heard. Kane Gamble was only 15 when he posed as a telecoms worker and Mr Brennan himself to gain passwords, personal information, security details, contacts lists and sensitive documents about operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. He then mocked the CIA on Twitter about…

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