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Ex-NSA Employee Receives Prison Time for Taking ‘Massive Trove’ of Top Secret Documents Home
ktla ^ | 09/25/2018

Posted on 09/25/2018 3:47:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland, had pleaded guilty to willful retention of national defense information. At his sentencing in federal court in downtown Baltimore, Pho explained that he took copies of U.S. government documents and writings containing national defense information so he could work from home and boost his resume. He told the judge he was trying to earn a promotion.

“I do not betray U.S.A. I do not betray this country,” Pho, who was born in Vietnam and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, said in unsteady English before sentencing.

Regardless of his motivation, federal authorities asserted his actions put the United States at risk. He stored top-secret digital information on an unsecured computer system at his house.

“Pho’s intentional, reckless and illegal retention of highly classified information over the course of almost five years placed at risk our intelligence community’s capabilities and methods, rendering some of them unusable,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said in a statement.

His defense attorney, Robert Bonsib, said the thefts did create “risk and potential damage,” but that the NSA cubicle worker nearing retirement never hurt anyone or tried to disseminate the documents he took.

“This is a good guy who made a long-term series of bad judgments,” Bonsib told the court.

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To: TheTimeOfMan

And you Will NEVER hear of the successes.

It’s a tough gig.


41 posted on 09/25/2018 4:14:16 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BenLurkin

Aren’t we such a cute country, giving access to our top secrets to people who are just barely citizens. Wonder what native born-American he bumped to get the job.

But the NSA could not make cooing noises about diversity if it didn’t hire non-Americans.


42 posted on 09/25/2018 4:15:56 PM PDT by odawg
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To: BenLurkin
And HRC goes free.................

Freedom for me...but not for thee

43 posted on 09/25/2018 4:18:55 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: BenLurkin

Nghia Hoang Pho.

Where did he take them after taking them home?


44 posted on 09/25/2018 4:20:12 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Osage Orange

LOCK HER UP! People are dead and she laughs!

OBAMA Too!


45 posted on 09/25/2018 4:25:49 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BenLurkin

How is this “digital” TS info stored on a non secure device?

Plug a thumbdrive in to a secure network and they are on you like a duck on a june bug.

Do You hire Shady Pakistanis to run your network?


46 posted on 09/25/2018 4:30:47 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
Boost his resume?

He was 68!

I know.

It sounds weird.

But if 60 is the new 40, then 68 is the new 45 1/3.

And half your life is still in front of you.

________________

Go easy on him.

He was only stealing the documents Americans won't steal.

47 posted on 09/25/2018 4:31:36 PM PDT by x
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To: BenLurkin
" He stored top-secret digital information on an unsecured computer system at his house."

What difference does it make?

48 posted on 09/25/2018 4:36:58 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: BenLurkin

Do you do it the old way? Get a tiny camera in to photograph documents? do you smuggle those home on microfiche?

Samizdat?


49 posted on 09/25/2018 4:38:09 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: x

Plenty of Americans steal them.

Look at the last administration.


50 posted on 09/25/2018 4:40:06 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: x

I have never understood the H1B BS.

Oh lets give the Chinese nationals access.

Damn! how did the Chinese get that info?!

High level Sting? Yer killing us man...


51 posted on 09/25/2018 4:42:55 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Pho is 68!!? I’m a Vietnam vet pushing 70.

He’s old enough to be Viet Cong or hardcore NVA. Commie Viets still hate us.


52 posted on 09/25/2018 4:44:06 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: TheTimeOfMan

Hillary IS a natural born citizen.

It’s not where you were born, it’s whether you are a citizen and have loyalty to the US.


53 posted on 09/25/2018 4:50:01 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: BenLurkin

“This is a good guy who made a long-term series of bad judgments,” Bonsib told the court.

The Hillary defense. Good move.


54 posted on 09/25/2018 4:50:40 PM PDT by Rocky (I have principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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In defense and telecoms and every aspect of life we have givin all our stuff to the commies.

Trump is the 1st one to poke back.

Carter was terrible, Obama was terrible, most of ours were useless.

Clinton screwed us and got away with it. *spit*

Reagan let me down and he was great


55 posted on 09/25/2018 4:56:36 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BenLurkin

Electric chair him.


56 posted on 09/25/2018 4:59:13 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: elcid1970

I know some good old boys, but I was not there.

By the way, the Viet President died last week, none of the 45% Viet at work shed a tear in public.


57 posted on 09/25/2018 5:01:21 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: elcid1970

We gave a lot in that war.

Cronkite was on the news every night to tell me how America sucks for rising against communism.

Then there is Rather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8_-NGBoPlA


58 posted on 09/25/2018 5:08:39 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BenLurkin

And Hillary and her coven escape...


59 posted on 09/25/2018 5:18:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: DannyTN

He should quickly file to run for office as a Democrat...


60 posted on 09/25/2018 5:19:28 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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