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A long time ago when I was young I had a job in the military where we were exposed to, used, and changed encryption codes. Compared to today, I assume the methods were primitive, clumsy, and time consuming. This brings us to current events. The use of a private server to handle email for the former Secretary of State may seem to some to be OK, after all, she didn't send many classified emails. But let us assume this, those emails that were unclassified and were sent to her from various people at State and perhaps other places probably has...

**SNIP** 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.

The Justice Department has told a federal judge that a former National Security Agency contractor took home records containing the names of U.S. spies working undercover, information that is considered among the nation’s most sensitive and closely held secrets. Much of the information taken by Harold “Hal” Martin III, who was arrested in August and has been charged with stealing classified information, was on computers or thumb drives, prosecutors said. But Mr. Martin also had “thousands of hard-copy documents containing highly classified information,” the Justice Department said in a Thursday court filing. “Numerous intelligence sources and methods for highly sensitive...

The Justice Department outlines details of the probe, says it will likely charge Harold Martin with additional crimes. 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.

Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500 Million Pages of Records and Secrets, U.S. Says The Justice Department outlines details of the probe, says it will likely charge Harold Martin with additional crimes 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...

Harold Thomas Martin, a 51-year-old US National Security Agency contractor from Maryland, may be remembered as the second Edward Snowden, although there are many differences between the two cases. Martin, a former US Navy officer with top secret national security clearance, was arrested on Aug. 27 by the FBI and charged with the unauthorized removal and retention for many years of highly-sensitive classified documents. The purloined materials found in raids of his home and his car, which were described by as capable of causing “exceptionally grave damage” to US national security. Like Snowden, Martin worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, which...

This week the Justice Department confirmed that Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, of Glen Burnie, Md., has been arrested by the FBI for stealing highly damaging, secret information while working for the NSA. Mr. Martin was an employee of the consulting firm Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Edward J. Snowden was also a Booz, Allen contractor at the NSA. Snowden leaked surveillance programs of Americans and foreign nationals to journalists before taking asylum in Russia. Martin was arrested in secret on Aug. 27 after an FBI search of his home, two storage sheds and vehicle turned up a mix of classified...