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Ex-NSA contractor to plead guilty to 'breathtaking' heist of top-secret data
Fox News ^ | 1/04/18 | Lukas Mikelionis

Posted on 01/06/2018 4:35:18 PM PST by Libloather

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Harold Martin is scheduled to plead guilty to one count of willful retention of national defense information on January 22 in a federal court in Baltimore, according to court filings, Reuters reported.

Prosecutors said that the ex-NSA contractor spent two decades taking classified government information from the U.S. intelligence community and hoarded the secrets at his home in Maryland. The Justice Department accused Martin in 2016 of a “breathtaking” theft of government secrets.

During a raid of his home, authorities seized dozens of laptops and digital devices in addition to six full bankers’ boxes worth of documents.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baltimore; classifieddata; data; edwardsnowden; haroldmartin; heist; maryland; nsa; secret
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At least 50 terabytes of data were seized from his home – with authorities saying it may have been the largest theft of classified documents in the country’s history.

Hillary comes in second place, again.

1 posted on 01/06/2018 4:35:18 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

This sort of thing is illegal??? Someone should tell Huma. And Hillary. And Comey. And many other Democrats.


2 posted on 01/06/2018 4:37:48 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: Libloather

Did he send them to America’s enemies like the Clintons?


3 posted on 01/06/2018 4:38:27 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Libloather

Perhaps the lost emails are present?


4 posted on 01/06/2018 4:38:30 PM PST by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: Libloather

Hillary comes in second place, again.


The best comment in a month. lol


5 posted on 01/06/2018 4:40:02 PM PST by RCFlyer
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To: ClearCase_guy

Well I’m pretty sure he didn’t intend to do it so give him a pass for goodness sake.


6 posted on 01/06/2018 4:41:41 PM PST by technically right
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To: Libloather

Who does this guy think he is? The Secretary of State?


7 posted on 01/06/2018 4:44:33 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Libloather
Hillary is stoking up before the authorities knock on her door.


8 posted on 01/06/2018 4:53:26 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Libloather
Sounds just like Marvin's underground home.


9 posted on 01/06/2018 5:03:09 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Libloather

Do we know if he ‘intended’ to break the law?


10 posted on 01/06/2018 5:05:53 PM PST by BobL (I used to own a truck - but I couldn't handle the lifestyle)
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To: Libloather

Was there intent? Because no prosecutor in his right mind would take the case without intent.


11 posted on 01/06/2018 5:09:06 PM PST by Stand W (My Name is Tucker Carlson and I am going to destroy you.)
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To: Libloather

How do people like this ever get past a security check?
When I was at Intel, they knew everyone who was on a secure section of the chip.
If there was a leak, they knew one of 50 people leaked it.


12 posted on 01/06/2018 5:09:12 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Libloather

Question is whether Hitlary would ever plead guilty to anything.


13 posted on 01/06/2018 5:12:45 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Libloather

And not a single document was marked “Classified”.


14 posted on 01/06/2018 5:16:22 PM PST by Typelouder
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Guilty of one count?

The DOJ should start the bargaining at Death Penalty and bargain down from there.

Why these horrific breaches of trust, possibly doing tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage if not costing lives (or both) are not punished with unbridled viciousness, I have no idea.


15 posted on 01/06/2018 5:28:05 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: Libloather

But I’m sure he didn’t INTEND to commit a crime, so it’s OK


16 posted on 01/06/2018 5:56:35 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Libloather

Well okay then who did kill JFK??


17 posted on 01/06/2018 6:08:39 PM PST by TheNext
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Who killed JFK?
Grassley Mole.


18 posted on 01/06/2018 6:14:21 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Libloather

What puzzles me is that these people always seem to hide this stuff IN THEIR OWN HOUSES???? (Think Hillary - after all the time she’s had to get ride of stuff - she seems to’ve thought all would be safe until a week or so ago -= so - a handy fire. )

He may have been saving evidence of all the unconstitutional, illegal goings on the gov’t in the past few years - hoping that some day - even if decades on, the truth could be known.


19 posted on 01/06/2018 7:03:02 PM PST by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: Libloather

The FBI hopes he gave the information to Carlos Danger for safe keeping/


20 posted on 01/06/2018 11:56:45 PM PST by csn vinnie
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