Re: US leak case ends with guilty plea to minor offense

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

The Justice Department also has been investigating Wikileaks founder
Julian Assange for leaking classified U.S. diplomatic cables and U.S.
military information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The result in the NSA case was widely seen as a setback for the Obama
administration's efforts to prosecute leaks of classified information.
The previous Bush administration also encountered similar problems in
leak cases.

"This is a victory for national security whistle-blowers," said
Jesselyn Radack, a former Justice Department official who now works at
the Government Accountability Project, a group that has helped
represent Drake.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
> 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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