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Daniel Everette Hale, 31, a former intelligence officer and military service member, pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally obtaining classified information and sharing it with a reporter.
Former Intelligence analyst pleads guilty to disclosing classified information to reporter
Daniel Everette Hale, of Nashville, Tennessee, who previously served as an enlisted airman in the US Air Force, sent classified documents and material to a reporter he came into contact with initially while working at the National Security Agency and later while employed by a defense contractor and assigned to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, according to the Justice Department’s announcement.
Hale was accused, in part, of printing 36 documents from his NGA computer in 2014, including 23 unrelated to his duties at the agency, and providing “at least 17 to the reporter and/or the reporter’s online news outlet, which published the documents in whole or in part. Eleven of the published documents were classified as Top Secret or Secret and marked as such.”
Ex-Intelligence Analyst Pleads Guilty to Sharing Classified Information With Reporter
A former intelligence analyst and member of the military pleaded guilty on March 31 to illegally disclosing classified information with a reporter.
Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tennessee, admitted to obtaining classified national defense information while working at the National Security Agency (NSA) and as a defense contractor at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and sharing it with the journalist.
“Hale has now admitted what the evidence at trial would have conclusively shown: that he took classified documents from his work at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), documents he had no right to retain, and that he sent them to a reporter, knowing all along that what he was doing was against the law,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said in a statement.
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