Posted on 07/12/2025 4:19:21 AM PDT by Salman
A lovestruck US Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit confidential national defense information after sharing military secrets information about the Russia-Ukraine war with a woman he met on a dating app.
David Franklin Slater, a 64-year-old Nebraska resident and retired US Army lieutenant colonel, worked as a civilian employee of the US Air Force assigned to Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base and held a Top Secret security clearance from August 2021 to April 2022.
In this role, he attended briefings about Russia's war against Ukraine that were classified up to Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) — and signed a non-disclosure agreement stating that he understood that "negligent handling of SCI by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or to be used to advantage by a foreign nation," according to court documents.
That didn’t stop Slater from sharing classified information with a woman who identified as a foreigner on an online dating platform.
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What a numbskull
Here are some of the messages:
“Dear, what is shown on the screens in the special room?? It is very interesting.”
“By the way, you were the first to tell me that NATO members are traveling by train and only now (already evening) this was announced on our news. You are my secret informant love! How were your meetings? Successfully?”
“Beloved Dave, do NATO and Biden have a secret plan to help us?”
“Dave, it’s great that you get information about [Specified Country 1] first. I hope you will tell me right away? You are my secret agent. With love.”
“Sweet Dave, the supply of weapons is completely classified, which is great!”
Our enemies don’t even need to rub a real flesh and blood honeypot trap any more. How pathetic is that.
Where is this “co-conspirator”? This person needs to be arrested, and they BOTH need to be shot. Together.
“Run,” not “rub.”
But “rub” works, too.
I went home with a waitress,
The way I always do.
How was I to know
She was with the Russians too?
Lawyers, Guns & Money
No doubt his security clearance was granted when all that was required of an applicant was a few phone numbers of family, friends and places of work.
My exact age, and my exact thought.
Retired O-5, what a fracking MORON. Many O-5s do not get promoted to O-6 because they are MORONS!!!
Worst part, they reture, work for a beltway bandit company until their “friends” can manipulate the personnel system to hire them back as civil service.
EVERY MANAGER at Offit should be investigated!!!
I knew the accused was going to be a man before I clicked the link.
No fool like an old fool! 😏
Isn’t SCI intended for just an extreme minimal amount of people that have an actual operational need to know? There should be no such thing as a briefing of SCI material for those not directly involved in SCI protected projects at a base far removed from the war.
And this idiot discussing classified information with a foreign national, that’s just dumb.
Was his name Swalwell by any chance?
Maybe he’ll find love in Leavenworth?
First thing: if she’s a legit prospect, she’d respect him more if he didn’t blab national secrets to her.
Second thing: if she’s not legit, how pathetic is that? At least the traitors of old got some sex in the bargain.
idjit!
Right!!!
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