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A federal contractor was arrested in August for unlawful retention of classified documents:
A federal contractor suspected of leaking powerful National Security Agency hacking tools has been arrested and charged with stealing classified information from the U.S. government, according to court records and a law enforcement official familiar with the case. Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, was charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, authorities said. He was arrested in August after investigators searched his home in Glen Burnie, Md., and found documents and digital information stored on various devices that contained highly classified information, authorities said. The breadth of the damage Martin is alleged to have caused was not immediately clear, though officials alleged some of the documents he took home "could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States." Investigators are probing whether Martin was responsible for an apparent leak that led to a cache of NSA hacking tools appearing online in August, according to an official familiar with the case.
From the US DoJ release:
A criminal complaint has been filed charging Harold Thomas Martin III, age 51, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor. According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, Martin was a contractor with the federal government and had a top secret national security clearance. Martin was arrested late on August 27, 2016. The complaint was filed on August 29, 2016, and unsealed today.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:22AM
Except that this guy had zero reason to be in possession of it inside his home. Clinton can legitimately say it was an accident that flash drive was behind the toilet. How was this guy in possession of so much data away from the office? Hard to make the Clinton defense stick with the facts when he can construct no legitimate reason for possession. I've no idea what his intentions were either. Maybe they caught somebody before they were about to leak. Why else would you do it? Offsite backups performed by empowered employee with initiative? Working in government? Not many good reasons here beyond utter stupidity and chronic brain flatulence.
That I find interesting, yet another employee leaking information. I'd heard before that a good portion of the NSA were very upset with their activities and felt spying on Americans was wrong. What's that saying? First time is coincidence, second time is happenstance, third time is enemy action?
Wouldn't that be something. The NSA revolting from within.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:44AM
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Booz%20Allen%20Hamilton%20snowden [google.com]
Booze Allen, maker of fine Snowdens.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Hairyfeet on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:14AM
Yeah and this guy didn't have peons to go on Reddit to find out how to destroy evidence or take a hammer to his devices when the feds come a knockin. Why I bet he won't even have the entire media rush to accuse anyone who disagrees with him having the data a racist misogynist or post endlessly about how "the previous guy did it so that makes it okay".
Silly peasants, thinking they can do the same corrupt shit that Queen Hillary gets to do and get away with it, tsk tsk.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:48AM
When you get rid of a hard drive that might have sensitive information on it do you "acid wash" it first?
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday October 07 2016, @12:21PM
I don't take hammers to my devices nor have I ever changed a data retention policy and wiped drives AFTER an investigation was started so no, I'm nothing like Queen Shillary.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:41AM
Except that this guy had zero reason to be in possession of it inside his home
No longer matters? If intent is now required, which it is since Hillary is getting away with it because she didn't have any bad intentions (yeah right, she would have used it for personal gain), then all this guy should have to say was he didn't mean anything bad about it and he should get off free. Having no good reason is not the same as having bad intentions. Unless he was caught trying to sell the info, they should have no case.
But no, the corrupt protect their own. This guy isn't in their club, he'll rot in jail as a traitor.
Booz Allen Hamilton isn't looking too good right now.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:55AM
18 U.S. Code § 1924 - Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material:
Passed in 1994, so intent has been required for 24 years. That's almost as long as Clinton has been fighting ISIS, according to one of the presidential candidates.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 06 2016, @07:00AM
Damn, you got me. I am a time-traveler from a Clinton-presidency future and things are great. Post would have been much more touche-worthy if I could do simple arithmetic correctly. Just call me the Gary Johnson of soylent-posters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @08:35AM
Just call me the Gary Johnson of soylent-posters.
My $Deity! Have we sunk this low? Soon we will have the Soylent equivalent of that Texan with the big ears, you know, third party candidate. Or that Anderson guy, back when there was Nixon. Or the Dan Quayle of Soylentils: "This is a Soylent, and it is made up of peoploe." (pedantic historical note: the extra "o" in "people" is placed out of respect for Dan Quayle spelling "potato" as "potatoe". The extra vowel makes all the difference.) But to be the Johnson of SoylentNews, this makes me think it may be a TMB sig, and rather crude one. So we should stick with HGary Johnson and Boose Allen, for the win? Or we will have to invoke the spirit of the great Presidential candidate, Pat Paulsen. That guy would have been great! Even more "low energy" and "low information" that Johnson could ever be. I think.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @12:54PM
FWIW, Anderson ran against Carter and Reagan for the 1980 election. Carter was the incumbent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @09:04AM
According to the Clown Party candidate, Clinton and Obama founded ISIS together.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @09:13PM
Fair enough, Bush is more responsible for ISIS than anyone. But who voted for the war? I guess even if she was foolish, I still wouldn't want her to lead the country.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:00PM
It wasn't a mistake that Clinton had that material away from the office, it was intentional, undeclared and completely unsecured. The FBI director pretty clearly stated that she's guilty, but that he wasn't recommending a prosecution because the DoJ was too afraid to actually take the steps to bring it to trial. If you literally add up the things he said, she is guilty as sin of mishandling classified materials.