CIA docs find a home on Amazon

Amazon’s contract to build a private cloud for the CIA is on hold while the agency sorts through the ramifications of a successful bid protest from IBM, which said it could build the cloud for less.

But Amazon is already storing CIA documents -- just not necessarily those the agency would like.

For instance, the New York Times reported on June 26 that four CIA agents were embedded in the New York Police Department in the decade following 9/11, and that one such agent may have spied on U.S. citizens. The article is based on a recently declassified executive summary of a CIA Inspector General’s report from December 2011, which the Times helpfully posted online.

And as the URL makes clear, that document is residing on an Amazon Web Services cloud server.