Posted on 10/05/2016 11:44:46 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. secretly arrested a National Security Agency contractor in recent weeks and is investigating whether he stole and disclosed highly classified computer codes developed to hack into the networks of foreign governments, according to several senior law enforcement and intelligence officials.
The theft raises the embarrassing prospect that for the second time in three years, an insider has managed to steal highly damaging secret information from the N.S.A. In 2013, Edward J. Snowden, who was also a contractor for the agency, took a vast trove of documents that were later passed to journalists, exposing N.S.A. surveillance programs in the United States and abroad.
The contractor was identified as Harold T. Martin 3rd, 51, of Glen Burnie, Md., according to a criminal complaint filed in late August. He was charged with theft of government property, and unauthorized removal or retention of classified documents. During an F.B.I. raid of his house, agents seized documents and digital information stored on electronic devices. A large percentage of the materials found in his house and car contained highly classified information.
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Snowden is a NATIONAL HERO
For exposing NSA criminal activity against citizens.
Which Obama has not stopped.
No intent..!!!
But did he really mean it?
” A large percentage of the materials found in his house and car contained highly classified information.”
So did Hillary’s unclassified emails on her home server.
Pickles missing emails no doubt. The FBI only remembers to be competent and follow the law and arrest people who threaten to expose to the clinton/comey criminal enterprise.
Why is Hillary Clinton not in prison?
I heard he set up a private server in his bathroom..Imagine. To the gallows!!
Wow..!
You must be right, it didn’t occur to me.
Wow....Yeah.
We are sure that was no evil nor criminal intent by the perp!
The perp needs to quickly donate to the Clintoon Foundation and pray that enough dead people vote for Illiarily to bail him out in 2017!
With Hillary getting away with the things she did, how can anyone else be prosecuted?
And so it begins.
His lawyer should call FBI Director Comey to testify in his defense. Can they prove intent to Comey’s standards?
Yes but this guy didn't take "full accountability" for it. If he'd only done that, he could be free of prosecution and ask for a promotion. Just like Hillary.
No intent!
Where he screwed up at was when he did not give the Clintons their cut.
Couldn’t he just tell them he didn’t know it was classified, and he just did it for convenience?
Couldn’t he just tell them he didn’t know it was classified, and he just did it for convenience?
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