NSA Staffer Pleads Guilty To Taking Home Classified Defense Documents

December 04 2017

USA

A former National Security Agency employee has pleaded guilty in federal court to removing classified defense documents and bringing them home, reports the Baltimore Sun.

The documents are believed to have been stolen from his home computer by hackers working at the behest of or cooperation with Russian intelligence, reported the New York Times.

Nghia H. Pho, 67, pleaded guilty on Friday to willful retention of national defense information.

The crime carries a possible...

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