Second Snowden? Feds arrest NSA Contractor for stealing classified data

  06 October 2016    Read: 1090
Second Snowden? Feds arrest NSA Contractor for stealing classified data
According to the New York Times, the contractor, who worked for the same company as Edward Snowden, was arrested for stealing highly-classified `source codes` developed by the NSA to hack foreign government systems.
According to the Justice Department, 51-year-old Harold Thomas Martin, who was employed by Booz Allen Hamilton — the company responsible for most of the NSA`s most sensitive cyberoperations — faces up to 10 years in prison for theft of government property and one year for removing classified material. The materials he is believed to have stolen are "critical to national security", Justice Department officials added.

"Among the classified documents…were six classified documents obtained from sensitive intelligence and produced by a government agency in 2014," the release stated. "These documents were produced through sensitive government sources, methods and capabilities, which are critical to a wide variety of national security issues."

​​This incident marks the second time in 3 years that an insider has stolen top secret information from the National Security Agency.

Edward Snowden also took to Twitter to comment on the story, asking if this will expose flaws in US products.

A former NSA contractor, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the United States` domestic spying operation in 2013. He currently resides in Moscow after being granted asylum in Russia on the basis that he could face spying charges in the US. Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amnesty International have all called on President Barack Obama to pardon Snowden.

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