After detours targeting “Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell and journalist Carl Bernstein, the hacker “Guccifer” has returned to his bread and butter criminality, breaking into the e-mail account of an Obama administration official who heads the National Intelligence Council.

The breach of Christopher Kojm’s personal msn.com account appears to have occurred within the past week, based on screen grabs from his account that were forwarded to TSG by the hacker. Kojm, 57, is chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), whose officers provide strategic assessments on future threats and trends to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (which was formed post-September 11 to coordinate the U.S. government’s assorted intelligence agencies).

Pictured at right, Kojm is a former congressional staffer who has worked as a senior adviser to the Iraq Study Group and deputy executive director of the 9/11 Commission. Following the 2008 presidential election, Kojm was named a member of Barack Obama’s transition team, focusing on national security matters. In mid-2009 he was appointed to lead the NIC.

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