NSA Employee Gets Almost 22 Years for Trying to Sell Secrets to Russia – IOTW Report

NSA Employee Gets Almost 22 Years for Trying to Sell Secrets to Russia

AP

A former National Security Agency employee who sold classified information to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian official was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in prison, the penalty requested by government prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore said he could have put Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, behind bars for even longer, calling the 262-month sentence “mercy” for what he saw as a calculated action to take the job at the NSA in order to be able to sell national security secrets. More

14 Comments on NSA Employee Gets Almost 22 Years for Trying to Sell Secrets to Russia

  1. If I understand this correctly, he hadn’t even been at the NSA for more than a month before looking to sell national secrets to the Russians. Don’t you think the government might be closely monitoring you during the probation period?

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