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The Justice Department on Wednesday charged Mariam Taha Thompson, a 61-year-old linguist at the Pentagon, with leaking the identifies of US spies and their methods to a foreign national who is suspected of having connections to the Hezbollah militant group and to whom she was attracted to;
According to a press release, an affidavit supporting the criminal complaint against the defendant said the information Thompson collected and transmitted “included classified national defense information regarding active human assets, including their true names.”;
“By compromising the identities of these human assets, Thompson placed the lives of the human assets and US military personnel in grave danger,” the press release said;
Country:
United States
Reason for the color:
» A Pentagon linguist is accused of giving up the names of U.S. spies to Hezbollah;