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posted by martyb on Thursday October 06 2016, @03:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the intelligence-matters dept.

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.

Also at The New York Times , NBC, PBS, the Baltimore Sun .


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @03:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @03:37PM (#411130)

    > He should have just told them his last name was Clinton. Bam. No prosecution.

    He should have just told them his last name was Petraeus.

    Clinton received unsolicited, unmarked classified materials from a civilian who probably got them from the CIA.
    Petraeus (director of the CIA) deliberately took marked classified materials from classified systems and deliberately gave them to a civilian for his own benefit (to get his dick wet in the woman writing his hagiography).

    Petraeus was charged, but he got a hand-slap — 2 years probation and a $100K fine (the prosecution only asked for a $50K fine).

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:52PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:52PM (#411148) Homepage Journal

    unsolicited

    [Citation Needed]

    unmarked

    Liar.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:02PM (#411183)

      > [Citation Needed]

      Prove it was solicited.

      > > unmarked
      > Liar.

      Will it make a difference if I prove it to you?
      Your reactionary bubble is so well fortified that facts don't matter.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 06 2016, @07:38PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday October 06 2016, @07:38PM (#411220) Homepage Journal

        This isn't a court of law, the burden is on you to prove your bestie is not a criminal and that we should vote for her. You know, like you keep demanding of her opposition.

        Yes. And you're going to do this, how? Hack the DOJ since they haven't released them and will likely never release the classified ones? Oh, are you wanting me to take the word of the guys who refused to prosecute her despite enough evidence to have her in prison for life?

        Reactionary? Really? Get an insult that's not from the 1800s.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @11:23PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @11:23PM (#411256)

          > This isn't a court of law, the burden is on you to prove your bestie is not a criminal and that we should vote for her. You know, like you keep demanding of her opposition.

          This isn't about voting for her. This is about you slurping up the bullshit and then calling it the truth.

          > And you're going to do this, how? Hack the DOJ since they haven't released them and will likely never release the classified ones?

          If you are so sure it can't be proven, put your money where your mouth is.
          If I prove it, you commit to never posting about clinton's emails ever again.
          Chicken? Yeah, I thought so. Coward.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 07 2016, @10:37AM

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday October 07 2016, @10:37AM (#411420) Homepage Journal

            Oh, I'm sorry I've gone with a preponderance of evidence instead of beyond a shadow of doubt. Wait, no, I'm not.

            If you had proof you'd have posted it by now. At this point you're just trying to draw this out so people might not see you as the stooge you are.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @12:15PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @12:15PM (#411439)

              The reason I haven't posted it yet is because I want you to put your money where your bullshit slurping mouth is. I am fucking tired of posting proof and having it be ignored and then the fucktard goes around repeating the same bullshit as if it never happened.

              If I am such a fakir, all you gotta do to call me out is agree: If I prove that none of the classified material was marked you won't post about clinton's emails anymore. You've got nothing to lose, right? Look, I know you haven't bothered to check into it yourself, your too much of a lazy fucktard and that's why you won't commit, because in the back of your head you are thinking, "holy shit, maybe he's right and he'll make a fool of me." Well, punk if you don't commit that's just admitting you don't even have the courage of your own convictions.

              • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 07 2016, @12:40PM

                by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday October 07 2016, @12:40PM (#411450) Homepage Journal

                Oh my balls, you have busted them. Please, bitch. Prove it or don't. At this point I really don't care anymore.

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:09PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:09PM (#411466)

                  Coward.

                  Well, there we have it. The mighty butthurt knows he's so full of shit that he won't even stand by his own words.

                  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 07 2016, @01:21PM

                    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday October 07 2016, @01:21PM (#411470) Homepage Journal

                    Bored now. If you could prove your shit you would have done it when first asked.

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                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:37PM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:37PM (#411475)

                      > If you could prove your shit you would have done it when first asked.

                      Going in loops [soylentnews.org] now because you know you are intellectually bankrupt.

                      Come on man, all you got to do is stand by your own words.

                      Unless you are willing to stand by your words I've got no reason to prove anything. You are the one who accused me of being a liar but its just an empty accusation unless you are willing to back it up.

                      > Bored now.

                      You've said that twice now, but you sure keep posting like you care. You are just too much of a coward to actually back your own words. Just cut-n-paste it: "If you prove that none of the classified material was marked, I won't post about clinton's emails ever again." I'm not even saying you have to admit you were wrong, you just have to stop talking about it. That's about the smallest possible thing you could do to back your own beliefs. But you won't even do that because you don't even trust yourself. You are full of shit and you know it.

                      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 07 2016, @01:56PM

                        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday October 07 2016, @01:56PM (#411485) Homepage Journal

                        I do not gamble. Not for any reason. But have fun thinking you won something. You're still a liar, just like your gal Clinton, until you prove otherwise. I'm going to go do actual work now.

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                        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @02:09PM

                          by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @02:09PM (#411493)

                          > I do not gamble. Not for any reason.

                          Haha. Yeah, you just post bullshit because you have neither personal responsibility nor any commitment to truth.