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Newer News: January 2018

December 2017

• Despite threatened crackdown, few leakers caught under Trump and Jeff Sessions by Steven Nelson, Washington Examiner, December 30. "So far under Trump, only NSA contractor Reality Winner has been charged under the Espionage Act for press contact."
• Your tax dollars fund Afghan child rape by James Bovard, The Hill, December 3. "Eleven allegations of child sexual abuse were reported to the Afghan government but the IG refused to disclose if anything happened to the perpetrators."
• Maryland Man Pleads Guilty to Willful Retention of National Defense Information, DoJ news release, December 1. "Nghia Hoang Pho, 67, of Ellicott City, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to willful retention of national defense information. According to his plea agreement, beginning in April 2006, Pho was employed as a Tailored Access Operations (TAO) developer for the National Security Agency (NSA). "

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