DoD linguist pleads guilty to transmitting highly sensitive info

[Generic Other]

A Defense Department linguist working at an overseas U.S. military facility pleaded guilty to transmitting highly sensitive national defense information to a person she believed would pass it to a foreign terrorist organization. More from @TheJusticeDept: http://ow.ly/RYhZ50EbhJa

Link to tweet

During today’s plea hearing, Thompson admitted that, beginning in 2017, she started communicating with her unindicted co-conspirator using a video-chat feature on a secure text and voice messaging application. Over time, Thompson developed a romantic interest in her co-conspirator. Thompson learned that the unindicted co-conspirator had a family member who was in the Lebanese Ministry of the Interior, and that the unindicted co-conspirator claimed to have received a ring from Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanese Hizballah.

http://ow.ly/RYhZ50EbhJa


And they still natter on about HRC's emails!

[gratuitous]

1. They were communicating over a secure text and voice messaging application?

Some judges would rule that that's just like talking to yourself, and not actionable as criminal conduct:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215280634

Okay, this is a federal versus State of Michigan thing, but Judge Klaeren of Michigan seems to have discovered some new protection for criminal defendants if they plot their crimes on private encrypted communications services.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Obviously not a very cunning one. n/t

[Baked Potato]

8. Not very...

[Budi]

3. Sure. Because when everyone's watching Hillary, no one's watching them

It's a script straight out of a Hollywood movie.


"And they still natter on about HRC's emails!"

[jimfields33]

4. The person was caught. Obviously they were paying attention

[Budi]

5. I was referring to the added line in the op.

"And they still natter on about HRC's emails!"
What was allowed done to Sec Clinton was a shameful case of 'look over there while we loot your house'..
****

I wasn't referring to the OP itself.
I knew a guy who worked with data collection in Afghanistan.
Needless to say he's failed an FBI poly 3 times since his return 8 yrs ago.
Can't tell any more about that.


So indeed, this story is a success & grateful for this one

[jimfields33]

6. Sorry. I didn't catch the entire thing even though I read it.

I really am sorry.

[Budi]

7. No worry. We're good

[Generic Other]

9. I meant the repubs

Didn't they just send a case to SCOTUS to try and re-open the HRC investigation?