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Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500 Million Pages of Records and Secrets, U.S. Says

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Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500 Million Pages of Records and Secrets, U.S. Says - WSJ

WASHINGTON—A former National Security Agency contractor amassed at least 500 million pages of government records, including top-secret information about military operations, by stealing documents bit by bit over two decades, the Justice Department alleged in a court filing submitted Thursday.

Prosecutors in August arrested and charged Harold “Hal” Martin III, of Glen Burnie, Md., with theft of government property and unauthorized removal or retention of classified documents. The case was kept under seal until earlier this month, when some details became public.

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Some former associates had described Mr. Martin as a harmless hoarder who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. The new government filing paints a different picture, raising questions about his motives and suggesting he was capable of sharing U.S. secrets with the nation’s adversaries and potentially putting American lives at risk.
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Probably like the mailman who is discovered to have a house full of mail.

The real bugger here is, he did it for over 2 decades and they didn't know. Yeah, keep telling yourself we're safe.

Here's the WaPo link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/government-alleges-massive-theft-by-nsa-contractor/2016/10/20/e021c380-96cc-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html
 
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Wonder if he will use the Clinton excuse?
 
Re: Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500 Million Pages of Records and Secrets, U.S. S

"Wait.....that **** was confidential?"
 
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Schism said:
Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500 Million Pages of Records and Secrets, U.S. Says - WSJ



Probably like the mailman who is discovered to have a house full of mail.

The real bugger here is, he did it for over 2 decades and they didn't know. Yeah, keep telling yourself we're safe.

Here's the WaPo link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...21c380-96cc-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html
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In a 12-page memo, U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein and two other prosecutors laid out a much more far-reaching case against Harold T. Martin III than was previously outlined. They say he took at least 50 terabytes of data and “six full banker’s boxes worth of documents,” with many lying open in his home office or kept on his car’s back seat and in the trunk. Other material was stored in a shed on his property.

One terabyte is the equivalent of 500 hours’ worth of movies.

Martin, who will appear at a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Friday, also took personal information about government employees as well as dozens of computers, thumb drives and other digital storage devices, the government memo said.

The government has not alleged that Martin passed any material to a foreign government, but contends that if he is released on bail he could do so.
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This reminds me of another case that came up recently and they blew it off.
kept on his car’s back seat and in the trunk (Huma left a lap top in a car but that is different)
took personal information about government employees as well as dozens of computers, thumb drives and other digital storage devices (Clinton storing classified information on unauthorized digital storage devices, that that is different)
with many lying open in his home office (Clinton's State Department people lost a lap top with all of the emails on it, but that is different)
 
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ajn678 said:
Wonder if he will use the Clinton excuse?
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If he didn't mean any harm, it's perfectly ok.
 
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The Feds are going to slam this guy to the wall. He'll be living right beside the Shoe Bomber, Unabomber, and Terry Nichols.

Clinton will be eating steak.
 
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ajn678 said:
Wonder if he will use the Clinton excuse?
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There is no classified information. I forgot my training. Where is the A and B. I didn't know what the C was for. It wasn't marked.
 
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KevinKohler said:
"Wait.....that **** was confidential?"
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He was clearly incompetent and didn't intend to do it. :lol:

I think he should run for president in 2020. There is no doubt he is qualified for the job.
 
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ajn678 said:
Wonder if he will use the Clinton excuse?
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Which one?
 
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He has the corrcet credentials to apply for SOS. The only thing he meeds now is a cloth in case he wants to wipeba server

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