A Defense Department contract linguist has been charged with giving classified information, including the names of U.S. government sources, to a Lebanese national with ties to the militant group Hezbollah, the DOJ announced
WASHINGTON — A Defense Department contract linguist has been charged with giving classified information, including the names of U.S. government sources, to a Lebanese national with ties to the militant group Hezbollah, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors accused Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, of turning over information that placed in danger those intelligence assets and American military personnel.Thompson appeared briefly in Washington’s federal court, where she was ordered held without bond pending a detention hearing next week. Neither she nor her lawyer addressed the allegations in court.
Thompson, who held a top secret security clearance, was arrested last Thursday in what prosecutors say was an overseas military facility. Prosecutors said that during a six-week period starting in late December, when U.S. airstrikes targeted Iranian-backed forces in Iraq, Thompson repeatedly accessed dozens of files that she had no need to review. Those files included the names of human assets, their photographs and cables detailing the information that the sources provided to the U.S. government.Sign up for Morning Defense, a daily briefing on Washington’s national security apparatus.
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