US leak case ends with guilty plea to minor offense

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

US leak case ends with guilty plea to minor offense
Fri Jun 10, 2011
By James Vicini
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/10/usa-security-leak-idUSN1019501120110610

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - A former National Security Agency
official pleaded guilty on Friday to a minor offense in a deal in
which the U.S. Justice Department agreed to drop more serious charges
about possessing and leaking classified information to a newspaper
reporter.

Thomas Drake, 54, pleaded guilty in federal court in Baltimore to a
single, less serious misdemeanor count of exceeding his authorized use
of a NSA computer in 2006 and 2007, the Justice Department said.

The deal was reached after the judge in the case ruled that the U.S.
government's efforts to protect classified information in certain
evidence that prosecutors planned to use at trial hampered the
defense. As a result, prosecutors said they would not use some of it.
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