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Defense Intelligence Agency employee charged with leaking classified information to journalists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/defense-intelligence-agency-employee-charged-with-leaking-classified-information-to-journalists/2019/10/09/6fbd1050-eaa6-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html
By Justin Jouvenal and Paul Duggan
Oct. 9, 2019 at 1:33 p.m. EDT
A counter-terrorism analyst for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has been charged with leaking top secret details about a foreign country’s weapons systems to two journalists, including a reporter with whom he was apparently romantically involved, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Henry K. Frese, 30, of Alexandria, Va., “was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information for person gain,” the Justice Department said in a statement announcing the indictment. “The unauthorized disclosure of TOP SECRET information could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security of the United States.”
Frese, who had a high-level security clearance, is due to appear in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on Wednesday, charged with willful transmission of national defense information. Authorities said he was arrested Wednesday morning when he arrive at his workplace in Virginia.
The two journalists were not immediately identified, but one of them, a woman, was apparently romantically involved with Frese and shared an Alexandria residence with him from August 2017 to August 2018, authorities said. They would not say whether she works for a U.S.- of foreign-based news organization.
The top secret information that Frese allegedly gave her, in April and May 2018, concerned the capabilities of a foreign nation’s weapons systems. Authorities declined to identify the foreign country.
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By Justin Jouvenal and Paul Duggan
Oct. 9, 2019 at 1:33 p.m. EDT
A counter-terrorism analyst for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has been charged with leaking top secret details about a foreign country’s weapons systems to two journalists, including a reporter with whom he was apparently romantically involved, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Henry K. Frese, 30, of Alexandria, Va., “was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information for person gain,” the Justice Department said in a statement announcing the indictment. “The unauthorized disclosure of TOP SECRET information could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security of the United States.”
Frese, who had a high-level security clearance, is due to appear in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on Wednesday, charged with willful transmission of national defense information. Authorities said he was arrested Wednesday morning when he arrive at his workplace in Virginia.
The two journalists were not immediately identified, but one of them, a woman, was apparently romantically involved with Frese and shared an Alexandria residence with him from August 2017 to August 2018, authorities said. They would not say whether she works for a U.S.- of foreign-based news organization.
The top secret information that Frese allegedly gave her, in April and May 2018, concerned the capabilities of a foreign nation’s weapons systems. Authorities declined to identify the foreign country.
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- still looking into. This smells of a Trump move...
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