Former analyst charged with leaking secret documents
ALEXANDRIA: A former US government intelligence analyst has been charged with leaking classified documents about military campaigns against terrorist group al Qaeda to a reporter.
Daniel Everette Hale (31), of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested yesterday. An indictment in Alexandria, Virginia, charges him under the Espionage Act with counts including obtaining and disclosing national defence information, as well as theft of government property.
According to the indictment, Hale worked as an intelligence analyst for the Air Force and later as a contractor assigned to the Government’s National GeospatialIntelligence Agency.
The indictment says Hale began communications with a reporter in 2013 while at the Air Force and continued after going to NGA.
According to the indictment, Hale provided 11 top secret or secret documents to the reporter and his online news outlet. Those documents were later published in whole or in part.
They included data about an al Qaeda operative and an overseas military campaign against al Qaeda. — AP