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IT guy at Defense Intelligence Agency gets nabbed after offering to sell classified secrets to foreign actors because he doesn’t like Trump
American Thinker ^ | 30 May, 2025 | Olivia Murray

Posted on 05/30/2025 10:48:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber

We’re being held hostage by emotional terrorists, turned literal terrorists.

According to a report at Fox News, a young IT professional working at the Defense Intelligence Agency who held a top secret clearance, was recently nabbed by law enforcement after he allegedly offered to sell classified secrets to foreign actors because he doesn’t like Donald Trump.

Nathan Laatsch, a 28-year-old IT specialist employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency since 2019, was arrested after the FBI received a tip in March 2025 that someone was willing to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government.

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An email to the FBI said that the person – later identified as Laatsch – didn’t ‘agree or align with the values’ of the Trump administration, and would be willing to share classified information that he could access, including ‘completed intelligence products, some unprocessed intelligence, and other assorted classified documentation.’

And get this: the department that Laatsch worked in at the DIA? The “Insider Threat Division.” That irony is wild.

Anyway, per the article, Laatsch “communicated with an FBI agent, who he believed to be a foreign government official” and on multiple occasions, vocalized his readiness to share the sensitive information that he “transcribed onto a notepad at his desk” over the course of several days. Laatsch was supposed to leave the stolen classified information at a local park, and “was observed by the FBI … depositing an item at the specified location.” After he left, the FBI agents reportedly secured a thumb-drive which was just a “sample” of what he could apparently get.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

1 posted on 05/30/2025 10:48:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left hates the USA and are trying to subvert it both overtly and covertly. Hillary and Biden (Probably 0bama too) did the same thing, but the FIB would not charge them.


2 posted on 05/30/2025 10:49:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hang him.


3 posted on 05/30/2025 10:50:39 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: MtnClimber

Maybe after sitting in a prison cell for a few years he’ll understand he threw his life away for nothing. Democrat filth pushing the young into stupid choice carries part of the blame here.


4 posted on 05/30/2025 11:02:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (What if stupidity isn’t about intelligence at all, but about surrendering the will to think?Bonhoeff)
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To: MtnClimber
"These people are going scorched earth—they’d rather burn us all to the ground instead of facing reality and accepting that they’re narcissistic and delusional whack jobs. How many more of them are out there?"

Quite a few, imho. But delusional whack jobs have no interest in reality.

I think part of the reason 'the base' approved of Biden and Obama is they vicariously enjoyed the harm being inflicted on innocent people.

5 posted on 05/30/2025 11:02:43 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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Wonder when a judge will dismiss the case and force the government to give him his job back


6 posted on 05/30/2025 11:08:23 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MtnClimber

If he would only provide the secrets without taking payment. He might be a “true believer”. Since he wanted a payoff, he may be someone who uses Trump as an excuse to sell out his country for money.


7 posted on 05/30/2025 11:18:53 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: MtnClimber

A version of Coulter’s Law is in effect here...

The more time that passes between the crime and the disclosure of which country he was trying to spy for....the greater the likelihood it was one particular Middle Eastern country that it has become illegal to criticize.


8 posted on 05/30/2025 11:21:32 AM PDT by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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To: MtnClimber

They should sentence him to death for treason... Trump should stop by just before his confessor sends him to his maker, so he can “twist and shout like the demented demon he is”.


9 posted on 05/30/2025 11:25:09 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: MtnClimber

Doesn’t anyone working for the feds have a regular name?

This is what you get with DEI.


10 posted on 05/30/2025 11:30:59 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: MtnClimber

he should and will be tried and, if found guilty, punished

but.. just saying... that meanwhile, we have some (mostly Demo..) CongressCritters supporting and encouraging enemies of America and the west

apparently, sedition or treason are “privileges” of the Ruling Elite

if this guy was spying, punish him for sure....but let’s also get after the large problem we have in Congress too


11 posted on 05/30/2025 11:34:20 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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12 posted on 05/30/2025 12:11:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: MtnClimber
Well, on the plus side, he apparently wasn't trying to shoot Mr. Trump...


13 posted on 05/30/2025 12:16:20 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: MtnClimber

El Salvador IT guy now?


14 posted on 05/30/2025 12:33:32 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: MtnClimber

Go to prison for espionage.

have fun.


15 posted on 05/30/2025 12:34:28 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: nitzy
The more time that passes between the crime and the disclosure of which country he was trying to spy for....the greater the likelihood it was one particular Middle Eastern country that it has become illegal to criticize.

Umm...there was no country. It was an FBI sting. And whatever country you're trying to backhand had no control over who the FBI chose or needed to represent.

16 posted on 05/30/2025 12:38:50 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: MtnClimber

Another TRAITOR


17 posted on 05/30/2025 1:19:00 PM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: TTFlyer

18 posted on 05/30/2025 3:57:28 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: nitzy

“the greater the likelihood it was one particular Middle Eastern country that it has become illegal to criticize.”

Nutzy Nazi nitzy is back. You’re always good for some deranged hating on Israel.


19 posted on 05/31/2025 2:05:19 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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