Military Personnel Indicted for Sharing Classified Information on Dating Sites

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Source: The Guardian US
Military Personnel Indicted for Sharing Classified Information on Dating Sites
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Retired US army colonel David Franklin Slater has been charged with illegally sharing classified information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through a foreign dating website to a person he believed was a woman in Ukraine. Slater, who had a top security clearance while working at US Strategic Command, faces a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to transmit and the transmission of national defense information.

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