Another Snowden? A former NSA agent is prosecuted for stealing classified information
- A U.S. federal court on Wednesday denounced a former NSA agent for allegedly stealing information from the country’s defense.
Harold Thomas Martin was arrested in August last year and classified information was found on paper and digital media at his home in Maryland. According to The Atlantic, he had allegedly been collecting this information for two decades.
He has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for each of the crimes he has allegedly committed against him (a total of 20).
The case has parallels with that of Edward Snowden, a former NSA colleague: The computer scientist who became famous after the U.S. government reported on espionage work around the planet in 2013 and Harold Thomas Martin worked in the same place at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
Snowden, who lives in exile in Russia, tweeted in October, urging him not to remain in pure parallelism. The nail of the matter is somewhere else in his opinion: Booz Allen Hamilton's contract with the U.S. government.
US government and cybersecurity industry
This issue has played a role before and has led to other arrests, such as that of journalist and activist Barrett Brown, who has not become as popular as Snowden.
Brown stated in 2012 that the consulting firm mentioned has a “project” to pursue Wikileaks and Anonymous.
He was arrested that same year and has been imprisoned until November of last year.
Through Project PM, Brown sought to demonstrate the U.S. government’s ties to the cybersecurity industry. This week’s trial shows that this connection still seems to play a role.
AEBetako NSA Segurtasun Agentziak Dilma Rousseff Brasilgo presidenteari eta bere gobernuko kideen beste 29 telefonotan egindako entzuketen berri eman du Wikileaksek, joan den larunbatean filtratutako dokumentuan.
Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy eta François Hollande zelatapean. AEBetako inteligentzia zerbitzuek Frantziako azken hiru presidenteak zelatatu dituzte Wikileaksek lortu eta Libération eta Mediapart hedabideek asteazkenean argitaratutako informazioaren arabera.
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“Obama lehendakariak atzerrira bidaiatzen duenean, bere kolaboratzaileak arduratzen dira maletan liburu labur batzuk sartzeaz, baita atzerriko liderrentzat opariak ere; eta diplomaziarekin baino akanpadarekin harreman handiagoa duen zerbait: kanpin denda bat”.
AEBtako Inteligentzia Agentziak (NSA) mundu osoko 100.000 ordenagailuri eraginen dien softwarea ezarri du, The New York Times egunkariak argitaratu duenez.
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