Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Former FBI agent to plead guilty in leak to AP

A former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a contractor for the bureau has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national defense information to the Associated Press about a disrupted terrorist plot to bring down a civilian airliner headed for the United States, the Justice Department said Monday.
Officials described the disclosure as one of the most serious national security leaks in history, saying it came in the middle of a sensitive intelligence operation. The case led to the Justice Department’s controversial decision to secretly subpoena two months’ worth of phone records from the Associated Press.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ex-fbi-agent-to-plead-guilty-in-leak-to-ap/2013/09/23/4a17a3ce-2491-11e3-b3e9-d97fb087acd6_story.html 

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