A 63-year-old Air Force employee has been charged with providing classified information about Ukraine to a person claiming to be a woman on a foreign dating app from February 2022 through April 2022.
David Franklin Slater, of Nebraska, a retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army, passed the classified material on to a “woman” who referred to him as her “secret love informant” and her “secret agent.”
According to the indictment, Slater attended U.S. Strategic Command briefings on Russia's war against Ukraine that were classified as Top Secret Compartment Information (TS//SCI).
“Slater then transferred the confidential NDI knowledge he learned from those briefings via the foreign online dating site’s private messaging platform to his co-conspirator, who claimed to be a female living in Ukraine on the foreign online dating site,” the Justice Department said.
According to the Department of Justice: According to the indictment, David Franklin Slater, 63, of Nebraska, worked in a classified space at USSTRATCOM and held a top-secret security clearance from or about August 2021 until or about April 2022, following his retirement as a lieutenant. Colonel from the US Army. Slater allegedly knowingly, improperly, and unlawfully transmitted the National Institute's classified “secret” information, which he had reason to believe could be used to harm the United States or for the benefit of a foreign nation, on a foreign online dating platform. To a person who is not authorized to receive such information.
“As alleged, Mr. Slater, an Air Force civilian employee and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, knowingly transmitted classified national defense information to another person in flagrant disregard for his country’s security and his oath to protect its secrets,” the Assistant Attorney General said. Gen. Matthew J. Olsen of the Department of Justice's National Security Division. “The Department of Justice will seek to hold accountable those who knowingly and intentionally put their country at risk by disclosing classified information.”
“Certain responsibilities fall on individuals who have access to highly classified information. The allegations against Mr. Slater challenge whether he has betrayed those responsibilities,” said U.S. Attorney Susan Lear for the District of Nebraska. “We look forward to continuing our work with the Office of “FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations to ensure the safety of our country.”
“The FBI investigates those who choose to illegally use their access to classified information to jeopardize our national security,” said Special Agent in Charge Eugene Coyle of the FBI's Omaha Field Office. “When people violate the trust they have to protect our nation's intelligence, they put our country at risk. We will continue to work alongside our partners to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution by protecting our nation's classified information.
The laws only apply to little people.
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