The Department of Justice announced the sentencing of a Pentagon staffer who provided Hezbollah with sensitive information related to individuals who helped the United States target Iranian warlord Qassem Soleimani.
Mariam Taha Thompson, a former Department of Defense linguist in Iraq, transferred dozens of files containing personal information, background, and photographs of human assets who assisted in planning the airstrike that killed Soleimani to a co-conspirator.
Thompson, who was romantically interested in the co-conspirator, thought the information would end up in the hands of Lebanese Hezbollah forces.
The Department of Justice reported that the information concerned at least 8 clandestine human assets and 10 American targets.
A Washington, D.C., district court sentenced Thompson to 23 years in prison on charges of delivering classified national defense information to aid a foreign government.
John Demers, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's national security division, said Thompson's punishment fits her crimes.
Hezbollah attempted to gather such information about American intelligence assets in the wake of Soleimani's January 2020 death.
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
Pentagon Staffer Sentenced for Passing Information to Hezbollah
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