Ex-NSA worker charged with lying, obstruction in classified leak case
By APThursday, April 15, 2010
Ex-NSA worker charged in classified leak case
WASHINGTON — A former senior executive at the National Security Agency has been charged with lying and obstruction of justice in an investigation of leaks of classified information to a newspaper.
Officials say Thomas Drake, 52, served as a source for many articles about the NSA in an unidentified newspaper, including articles that contained classified information.
A federal indictment filed in Maryland charges that Drake used a non-government e-mail account to transmit classified and unclassified information. Authorities also charge that Drake lied to federal agents about what he’d done.
The indictment does not identify the reporter, the newspaper, or the subject matter of the stories.
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