{"id":39623,"date":"2024-05-01T00:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/ex-n-s-a-employee-who-tried-to-sell-u-s-secrets-to-russia-gets-22-years\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:44:07","slug":"ex-n-s-a-employee-who-tried-to-sell-u-s-secrets-to-russia-gets-22-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/ex-n-s-a-employee-who-tried-to-sell-u-s-secrets-to-russia-gets-22-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-N.S.A. Employee Who Tried to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia Gets 22 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/09\/29\/multimedia\/30xp-nsa2\/30xp-nsa2-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ex-N.S.A. Employee Who Tried to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia Gets 22 Years\" title=\"Ex-N.S.A. Employee Who Tried to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia Gets 22 Years\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A former employee of the National Security Agency who thought that he was selling top secrets to the Russians was sentenced on Monday to nearly 22 years in prison, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The former employee, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, of Colorado Springs, was sentenced to 262 months, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-co\/pr\/former-nsa-employee-sentenced-over-21-years-prison-attempted-espionage\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Colorado.<\/a> He <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDIsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lmp1c3RpY2UuZ292L29wYS9wci9mb3JtZXItbnNhLWVtcGxveWVlLXBsZWFkcy1ndWlsdHktYXR0ZW1wdGVkLWVzcGlvbmFnZT91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9Z292ZGVsaXZlcnkiLCJidWxsZXRpbl9pZCI6IjIwMjQwNDI5Ljk0MDQ1NDcxIn0.hYeNZ1F-Gn2G0JTuCBmGazK1Q0qJhs1lC0Hle5edOaE\/s\/3119207200\/br\/241554120664-l\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty<\/a> last year to six counts of attempting to transmit classified national defense information to a foreign agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis defendant, who had sworn an oath to defend our country, believed he was selling classified national security information to a Russian agent, when in fact, he was outing himself to the F.B.I.,\u201d Attorney General Merrick B. Garland <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-co\/pr\/former-nsa-employee-sentenced-over-21-years-prison-attempted-espionage\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cole Finegan, the U.S. attorney for the District of Colorado, said Mr. Dalke\u2019s sentence \u201creflects the seriousness of the actions he took in attempt to injure our country and help a foreign government.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A lawyer representing Mr. Dalke did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">From June to July 2022, Mr. Dalke worked as an information systems security designer at the N.S.A. He held a secret clearance for his work with the U.S. Army since 2016 and was given a top security clearance when he started working at the agency, according to an affidavit filed by an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for his criminal complaint. He left his job, saying that a family illness required him to be away for nine months and stating that the N.S.A. had been unable to support his leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prosecutors said that around that time Mr. Dalke was engaged in an email exchange with an individual whom he believed to be a Russian agent. To demonstrate his \u201clegitimate access and willingness to share\u201d he used an encrypted email account at the end of July to transmit excerpts from three classified documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But his contact was actually an undercover agent for the F.B.I., according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The three documents from which the excerpts were taken contained national defense information that was classified as top secret and had been obtained by Mr. Dalke during his employment with the N.S.A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Dalke requested payment of $85,000 in August 2022 for the information that he had gathered, prosecutors said. He told his contact that he was in \u201cfinancial need\u201d and that he had nearly $84,000 in debt between student loans and credit cards, according to court records.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Dalke claimed that the information he was willing to share would be of value to Russia and told the F.B.I.\u2019s undercover employee that he would share more once he returned to the Washington, D.C., area, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Dalke \u201csubsequently arranged to transfer additional classified information in his possession to the purported Russian agent at Union Station in downtown Denver,\u201d the U.S. attorney in Colorado said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Using a laptop computer and following instructions from the undercover employee, Mr. Dalke transferred five files, four of which contained top secret information, the authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, F.B.I. agents arrested Mr. Dalke on Sept. 28, shortly after he sent those files.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of those documents was a letter. He opened it with a greeting in Russian. \u201cMy friends!\u201d he wrote, and stated, in part, \u201cI am very happy to finally provide this information to you \u2026 I look forward to our friendship and shared benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/30\/us\/nsa-espionage-colorado-sentence.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee of the National Security Agency who thought that he was selling top secrets to the Russians was sentenced on Monday to nearly 22 years in prison, prosecutors said. The former employee, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, of Colorado Springs, was sentenced to 262 months, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/09\/29\/multimedia\/30xp-nsa2\/30xp-nsa2-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2613,41838,202,10992,3556,221,111],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39625,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623\/revisions\/39625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}