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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: docsinhissox; pdbsinhisbvds; sandyburglar
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"No intent"?
1 posted on 09/25/2018 3:47:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

He just wasn’t connected enough to get away with it.


2 posted on 09/25/2018 3:48:28 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: BenLurkin

Why is H->! not locked up?


3 posted on 09/25/2018 3:48:35 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

Shoulda hid it in his socks.


4 posted on 09/25/2018 3:48:52 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: Paladin2

Because she did not intend to break the law. Don’t you get it???? /s


5 posted on 09/25/2018 3:50:22 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: BenLurkin

“Ex-NSA Employee Receives Prison Time for Taking ‘Massive Trove’ of Top Secret Documents Home”

Meanwhile, Jeff lets the worst criminals in American history..,Hillary, Clapper, Brennan, Comey etc...walk free.


6 posted on 09/25/2018 3:50:22 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BenLurkin

Quick, Pho!

Change your name to Clinton!


7 posted on 09/25/2018 3:50:39 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Ken H

Sandy Berger must have schooled that guy!!


8 posted on 09/25/2018 3:50:49 PM PDT by MGunny
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To: blackdog

Should have left them in the library to be discovered.


9 posted on 09/25/2018 3:50:54 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Ken H
Take a picture of your bunk in a submarine and you get 5 years.

Sell the torpedo guidance systems processors in the same submarine to the Chinese for $10 million and you get appointed to Secretary of State and your own security detail.

10 posted on 09/25/2018 3:52:07 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: BenLurkin

He should have wiped it with a cloth.


11 posted on 09/25/2018 3:53:03 PM PDT by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: BenLurkin

Weird.

Sounds similarly like Hillary...


12 posted on 09/25/2018 3:53:13 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; arthurus; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Ax; ...
MI Ping

Imagine what would have happened to us, back when security was taken seriously.

13 posted on 09/25/2018 3:53:28 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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Was that wrong? because I gotta tell you at other intel agencies people do that ALL the time..”


14 posted on 09/25/2018 3:54:06 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BenLurkin

[ 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. ]

Just to be clear, are we sure this isn’t Hillary? Oh, forgot. He got a real investigation. Nevermind.


15 posted on 09/25/2018 3:54:12 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

One of several.

I hope he didn’t install Kaspersky software ...


16 posted on 09/25/2018 3:54:34 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: BenLurkin

Perhaps he should have set up a private server.


17 posted on 09/25/2018 3:54:39 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Paladin2

Sandy Berger got a pass...


18 posted on 09/25/2018 3:55:03 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Paladin2

Because Hillary was “careless” in this “matter”! /James “The (Democ) Rat” Comey


19 posted on 09/25/2018 3:55:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m not familiar with the current rules for the Federal Prison system vis a vis male and female incarcerations. Can this guy and Hillary Clinton be cell mates? They are both guilty of the same crime.


20 posted on 09/25/2018 3:55:48 PM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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