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BREAKING: Anti-Trump Defense IT Specialist Arrested For Attempting to Provide Classified Information to Foreign Government Because He Did Not “Agree or Align with the Values of This Administration”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | May. 29, 2025 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 05/29/2025 9:19:29 PM PDT by bitt

An anti-Trump IT specialist the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was arrested on Thursday for attempting to provide classified national defense information to a foreign government.

According to the DOJ, Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested on Thursday in northern Virginia, and will make his initial court appearance in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday.

The Justice Department said Laatsch offered to transmit classified information to the foreign government because he did not “agree or align with the values of this administration” and was therefore “willing to share classified information” that he had access to, including “completed intelligence products, some unprocessed intelligence, and other assorted classified documentation.”

Today, an IT specialist employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested for attempting to transmit classified national defense information to a foreign government.

This case underscores the persistent risk of insider threats. The FBI remains steadfast in protecting our…

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) May 29, 2025

Per the Justice Department:

According to court documents, Laatsch became a civilian employee of the DIA in 2019, where he works with the Insider Threat Division and holds a Top Secret security clearance. In March 2025, the FBI commenced an operation after receiving a tip that an individual — now known to be Laatsch — offered to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government. In that email, the sender wrote that he did not “agree or align with the values of this administration” and was therefore “willing to share classified information” that he had access to, including “completed intelligence products, some unprocessed intelligence, and other assorted classified documentation.”

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https://x.com/TheNewsTrending/status/1928222381090427283

Nathan Vilas Laatsch, a US Defense Intelligence Agency IT specialist, was arrested in Virginia for attempting to transmit classified info to a foreign government.

Charged with espionage-related offenses, Laatsch allegedly used a covert online platform to share sensitive data.

The Justice Department says he faces serious penalties if convicted.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dia; espionage; nathanvilaslaatsch; spying; treason
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To: bitt

I don’t know who the demonicRAT nominee for President will be in ‘28 but this guy is a shoo-in to be they/them’s running mate.


21 posted on 05/29/2025 10:00:46 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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22 posted on 05/29/2025 10:06:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: TigersEye
He’ll make a fine lady at Club Fed ... whether he wants to transition or not.

NO soap-on-a-rope for him!!

23 posted on 05/29/2025 10:06:26 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: bitt

Something the libtard feminist socialist press never points out...

You jever see these kinds of stories when the president is a democrat. Those not of the democrat party dont pull this crap because they are at odds with the CIC. Only when its an “evil Republican” TM


24 posted on 05/29/2025 10:10:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: llevrok

No, but when they book him in, along with the standard prisoner issue, they’ll give him some Walz-mart brand tampons, a weave and a lipstick.


25 posted on 05/29/2025 10:12:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Why not prison in El Salvatore?


26 posted on 05/29/2025 10:13:50 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: bitt

They shoot spies, don’t they? POS.


27 posted on 05/29/2025 10:15:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Where can Americans go to seek justice now that the RATS own the judiciary?)
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To: bitt

The boy looks like he needs a hemp dance party.


28 posted on 05/29/2025 10:17:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Where can Americans go to seek justice now that the RATS own the judiciary?)
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To: bitt

Like the atomic spies in the early 1950s who felt the Soviets should also know how to make The Bomb.


29 posted on 05/29/2025 10:24:05 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: bitt

There just MUST be a J6 dungeon holding cell for this guy!


30 posted on 05/29/2025 10:25:29 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: TonyM

“Why not prison in El Salvatore?”

Because you can’t spell El Salvador?


31 posted on 05/29/2025 10:35:10 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: bitt

SHOOT HIM.


32 posted on 05/29/2025 10:37:22 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: know.your.why

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33 posted on 05/29/2025 10:49:14 PM PDT by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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To: bitt

And you shall be hung by the neck until dead. 😡


34 posted on 05/29/2025 11:12:52 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: bitt

Hmmm... I think they have a name for that.


35 posted on 05/29/2025 11:24:00 PM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: bitt
Full pardon by the next Democrat president.
36 posted on 05/29/2025 11:30:34 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
And you shall be hung by the neck until dead.

And you shall be hanged by the neck until dead.

37 posted on 05/29/2025 11:38:25 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: vpintheak

As soon as the next Democrat becomes POTUS, he’ll get pardoned and be labeled as a political prisoner in the meantime, once pardoned, he will become a folk hero in the Trump resistance and end up make a nice living off the image that will be created for him.


38 posted on 05/29/2025 11:51:29 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: bitt; DouglasKC; gundog; E. Pluribus Unum; lightman; vpintheak; hillarys cankles; dadgum; ...

In earlier days, cowards and deserters were shot. Sometimes on the spot. Immediate death.

Traitors and spies were hanged. Maybe one minute, maybe 30 minutes to suffocate. Hanging is far worse than a firing squad. That’s why the worst of the worst were subject to hanging rather than just being shot. The Rosenbergs got it on old sparky.

These days, we are infested with traitors against our own country.

Don’t forget, Gropey Joe Biden, aka Pedo Pete, commuted all death sentences for Federal prisoners. Or at least the Autopen did. Except for Leavenworth.

Nidal Hasan, killer of 13 people and attempted murder of 32 others, sits in his wheelchair with a death sentence at Leavenworth. Decades.


39 posted on 05/29/2025 11:53:18 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: bitt

Poof! goes his career. Come to think of it, he sort of looks like a White version of Obola. . . Poof!


40 posted on 05/30/2025 12:20:10 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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