Posted on 06/19/2020 9:28:56 AM PDT by bitt
A former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst who repeatedly divulged classified information to journalists was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison.
Henry Kyle Frese, a counterterrorism analyst from February 2018 to October 2019 before he was arrested, apologized to a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., for his conduct and said his motive for leaking was to advance relationships, including one with a reporter whom he was dating at the time.
“It was never for personal gain or out of anger. It was never for political reasons,” said Frese, who previously pleaded guilty to leaking national secrets to two journalists and a consultant. “At the time, I thought my reasons were important.
"Looking back, I’m embarrassed at how foolish and weak they were,” he said, according to The Washington Post.
A journalist, who shared Frese's address from January to November 2018, had eight stories published during spring and summer 2018 that included classified information pertaining to foreign nations' weapons systems, the Justice Department said
"Between mid-2018 and late September 2019, Frese orally transmitted NDI classified at the Top Secret level to Journalist 1 on 12 separate occasions, and orally transmitted NDI classified at the Secret level to Journalist 1 on at least four occasions," the DOJ noted.
"Frese knew the information was classified at the Secret and Top Secret levels because the intelligence products from which he had learned the classified information had visible classification markings as to the classification level of the information, and the intelligence products accessed by Frese were stored on secure, classified government information systems," DOJ said.
Frese also communicated with another journalist and the DOJ noted that Frese carried out many searches on classified government systems for information about issues he had spoken with the two journalists about.
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What about the two NBC bimbos?
He just thought he could get laid................
Well, sounds kinda like it was. He wanted to get into a media whore's pants.
"It was for pussy, your Honor".
How about 30 years?
He should get 100X what they were trying to give to Gen. Flynn.
This happened to a guy, in a movie called “Thank you for Smoking”.
He was a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, who started sleeping with a reporter. Funny movie.
Fantastic, another little fish has been squished while the big ones swim free.
What a Just Us system.
Wow! They really threw the book at him. They threw the kitchen sink and all of the dishes.Oh well, hopefully once he is in there, someone will beat his head in.
John Kerry should have gotten 100X what Flynn got.
Acquitted of all charges!
Bailiff! Wack his pee-pee!
And Hillary...
Pu$$y whipped rigt into jail.
how did HE pass his security clearance in the first place?
Not for political reasons? I have a hard time believing that statement.The reporter/lover had political reasons and he didn’t know? ?
The reporter he was dating was Amanda Macias of MSNBC.
Reading this just broke my bull sh!t meter
When Clint Eastwood implied a similar situation in RICHARD JEWEL, the reviewers went bat-guano crazy; the integrity of the press and all that garbage.
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