Daniel Hale is accused of giving top secret files on drone warfare to a journalist at an online news outlet * Live: follow the latest US politics newsNational Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesA former National Security Agency (NSA) official
A former National Security Agency official has been charged with giving classified documents on drone warfare to a journalist, amid a crackdown on government leaks by Donald Trump’s administration.
Hale, 31, was indicted by a grand jury on five charges relating to the alleged leak. Each charge carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence. The US justice department said Hale was arrested on Thursday morning and would appear in court later in the day. He later worked as a contractor for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in Virginia, and allegedly began printing documents unrelated to his work. He allegedly provided at least 17 to the news outlet, 11 of which were marked “secret” or “top secret”.
Hale and the reporter allegedly communicated by telephone, email and text message over the following months. Emails and text messages sent to Hale by the reporter – some in the hours after Hale allegedly printed documents – were quoted in the indictment.
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