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Posted on 02/12/2026 3:46:30 AM PST by DFG
A former Army Colonel from Florida was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for trying to woo a woman he met online by sending her secret classified battle plans.
Retired combat vet Kevin Charles Luke, 62, was working as a high-level civilian contractor with “top secret” clearance at US military headquarters in Tampa in October 2024, when he texted a photo of plans for a Middle East attack to his new fling, according to court documents.
“Sent to my boss earlier,” he wrote in the text, which included a photo of an email on his work computer at Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base. “Gives you a peek at what I do for a living.”
The image showed a classified email message with details about the date of the operation, the number of targets and battle plans, court papers state.
The confidential email was labeled “SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY” — meaning it was only meant to be seen by authorized personnel in the so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance, which includes the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Roughly two months later, Luke — a decorated officer who spent 37 years in the Army before retiring 2018 — broke up with the unidentified woman.
She then reported him to authorities, prompting federal agents to search his home, according to his defense attorney Mark O’Brien.
Luke later pleaded guilty to unauthorized communication of classified military strike plans, but insisted he sent the text simply to impress the woman, not as an act of treason or for financial gain.
It wasn’t clear which attack his email referenced — but it was sent days before the Central Command headquarters launched airstrikes in Yemen, directed at Houthis, an Islamic fundamentalist military force.
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Another reason why stable marriage is important.
How the heck do battle plans turn a woman on to a man?
A commissioned high-ranking officer, retired and now still working in defense, he knew what he was doing. Regardless of his stated motivation he deserves more time in prison than 2 years.
The act was intentional, not an accident.
The reason for treason is generally MICE.
Money
Ideology
Coercion
Ego
Put the colonel down for number four. Honey traps are designed to exert coersion, so he opened himself up to that, too. You will likely meet the colonel in your next security training refresher course.
There was this tomcat.
While crossing the tracks a train came.
He escaped, all except his tail, which got cut off.
The cat turned around to investigate.
His head got cut off.
The moral of the story?
Don’t lose your head over a little piece of tail.
lol! Truth!
What an idjit!
A Battle Plan seduction?
The good colonel must have been less than well endowed.
Women are vicious. Especially when a man leaves one.
Really stupid on the part of the Colonel.
Will it affect his pension?
Fang Fang?
Or was it Fang Bang, you beat me to it, I’m not sure what her name was, only that Swallowell was banging her first... Who knows what secrets he spilt....
This is one of the risks of any classification system.
The folks who have security clearance can start believing that makes them “special” and entitled to special privileges, above the “mere peons” who do not have such clearance.
If they have any sociopath tendencies at all it will amplify them.
What is known about the woman? Anything? Could she have been a honey trap set by a foreign power? The guy readily “admits” the disclosure was to “impress” her. Of course he’s gonna say that. What’s wrong with these investigators? DEI?This guy ex-military knows full well what the penalty for aiding a foreign power would be. And the woman gets hit with nothing for being in possession of these plans? No accessory charges? Nothing? Two years later? Because she blew the whistle? This stinks.
Sounds like he took his cell phone into the SCIF.
The woman was vicious.
If you read the article you will see that He left Her.
She reported him, had enough knowledge about how things work to know that she could ruin him.
She reported him and used the system of closed court trial because of classified evidence, in order to mask her identity.
If I had this bitches name , I would be plastering her image all over the internet. Maybe there will be a leak.
The colonel played it as best he could.He will only serve 15 months.But he was really stupid for someone who was a career veteran.
He’s paid the pu$$y butchers bill.
Capital punishment isn’t employed nearly often enough. The Rosenbergs were executed for espionage, for placing millions at risk. There have been a host of subsequent spies discovered since the 1950s, though none have received the death penalty. It’s a symptom of a profound sickness on the part of national governments.
Beau ‘courted’ me with an organic, free-range roasting chicken, dark chocolate, raw wool, 7-year aged Cheddar, veggies from his garden, my Browning .22 and a new splitting maul.
You guys are doing it all wrong, LOL!
I send chicks screenshots of my many battles as Master Chief.
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