The Justice Department also has been investigating Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for leaking classified U.S. diplomatic cables and U.S. military information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The result in the NSA case was widely seen as a setback for the Obama administration's efforts to prosecute leaks of classified information. The previous Bush administration also encountered similar problems in leak cases. "This is a victory for national security whistle-blowers," said Jesselyn Radack, a former Justice Department official who now works at the Government Accountability Project, a group that has helped represent Drake. On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > US leak case ends with guilty plea to minor offense > Fri Jun 10, 2011 > By James Vicini > http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/10/usa-security-leak-idUSN1019501120110610 > > WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - A former National Security Agency > official pleaded guilty on Friday to a minor offense in a deal in > which the U.S. Justice Department agreed to drop more serious charges > about possessing and leaking classified information to a newspaper > reporter. > > Thomas Drake, 54, pleaded guilty in federal court in Baltimore to a > single, less serious misdemeanor count of exceeding his authorized use > of a NSA computer in 2006 and 2007, the Justice Department said. > > The deal was reached after the judge in the case ruled that the U.S. > government's efforts to protect classified information in certain > evidence that prosecutors planned to use at trial hampered the > defense. As a result, prosecutors said they would not use some of it. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
