jessica schneider and fred pleitg pleitgen. what are you learning about this person and what she s charged with? she s a 39-year-old american woman who s now defected to iran. she was a former air force intelligence specialist. she s now been charged with spying for iran. the indictment alleges in the years after monica whit left the air force she traveled to a conversation for the islamic revolutionary guard corps. in the months following that conference after 2012, she was allegedly targeted and recruited by the iranian government even as much as they provided housing and computer equipment for her. and then prosecutors allege that she handed over classified information to an iranian government official. that classified information included the code name and classified mission of a department of defense program. in addition to that, monica whit also allegedly provided research
thank dana for doing that piece. it was a great piece. let s hope your bet works out on this deal. thank you so much. thank you. coming up for us, new this morning, the u.s. government has charged a former air force intelligence specialist with spying for iran. details on that, next.
told it s not because of that why he is leaving, he s choosing to leave on his own but not many details around this resignation and why it s has beening now, we just know it is happening now. brook? once we re able to connect the dots which i m sure you will rene we ll get them on. a former air force intelligence specialist has been charged with spying for iran. her name is monica witt, she is a former counterintelligence officer for the air force office of special investigations. she defected to iran in 2013 and the department of justice alleges she was recruited by iran to spy on the u.s. and they say her spying revealed the identity of at least one u.s. intelligence officer. alex marquardt is in washington and alex, explain how federal prosecutors say this went down. this is a story of a young woman who spent years at the highest echelons of american intelligence as a surveillance sorry, an intelligence specialist and
9:28 on the east coast, 6:28 in the west. 8:28 in des moines, iowa. a former air force intelligence specialist is due in court to face charges after allegedly claiming he had explosives on a plane. 26-year-old derek stansberry was on a paris to atlanta flight when he reportedly claimed he had a bomb in his bag. the plane made an emergency stop in maine where he was detained and police say no explosiveses were found. crews trying to contain that oil spill off louisiana are considering fight it with fire. right now, the damaged well is leaking an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil a day into the gulf of mexico. and a sneak peek this morning at former first lady laura bush s new memoir. in it, she talks for the first time about kawing a car accident that killed a friend when she was just 17. the tomorrower first lady also
for 3 a minutes bright. i thought this is strange for 35 minutes lights are on. i saw the tenseness in the faces of the flight attendants, actually. the pilot did let us know after everything was contained. he said everything is safe. everything is contained. about 30 minutes after it happened, he said there was a security breach but everything was fine shep shep a lot of scary moments before that a suspect also passed a note to a flight attendant that read: the suspect is derrick stance berry, a former air force intelligence specialist. his father says he is shocked and says his son leads a squeaky clean life. i think something happened and somebody reacted and everybody played safe. and that s the best way to do it. hopefully it s a simple misunderstanding. and he gets to come home and everything is forgiven. shepard: well, according to the fbi, stance berry told an