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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 DeathMonkey on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:55AM
18 U.S. Code ยง 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.