https://www.breitbart.com/poli...d-information-media/

U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) counterterrorism analyst Henry Kyle Frese pleaded guilty on Thursday to leaking information to the press in 2018 and 2019.

According to a DIA press release, Frese faces up to 10 years in prison for leaking sensitive military information from five separate classified documents. Frese was employed by the DIA as either a contractor or employee from January 2017 to October 2019.

Over the course of two years, Frese illegally obtained and distributed classified military intelligence information to two journalists. But court filings state that the information was published in eight articles written by the same journalist — Amanda Macias, a national security reporter for CNBC, and Frese’s girlfriend at the time.

Court documents claim Macias later asked Frese via Twitter direct messages whether he would share the information with another journalist whose identity has not yet been disclosed. Frese then “searched on a classified United States government computer system” to obtain the information requested.

In a statement released by the Department of Justice, Virginia District Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger said the case should “serve as a clear reminder” that “unilaterally disclosing such information for personal gain, or that of others, is not selfless or heroic, it is criminal.”

Frese was arrested in October. He pleaded guilty to two charges of “willful transmission of national defense information” on Thursday. He will be sentenced in federal court on June 18.

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CTH has a much better report

https://theconservativetreehou...urnalist-girlfriend/

In 2019 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) employee, Henry Kyle Frese, was caught leaking Top Secret classified intelligence to his journalist girlfriend. In 2020 he pleads guilty to the charges

According to court documents, Henry Kyle Frese, 31, of Alexandria, was employed by DIA as a counterterrorism analyst from February 2018 to October 2019, and held a Top Secret//Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.


United States government agencies have confirmed that in the spring and summer of 2018, News Outlet 1 published eight articles, all authored by the same journalist (Journalist 1) [Amanda Macias, CNBC ] that contained classified NDI that related to the capabilities of certain foreign countries’ weapons systems. These articles contained classified intelligence from five intelligence reports (the Compromised Intelligence Reports) made available to appropriately cleared recipients in the first half of 2018.

The topic of all of these initial five Compromised Intelligence Reports – foreign countries’ weapons systems – was outside the scope of Frese’s job duties as an analyst covering CT topics. The media articles, and the intelligence reporting from which they were derived, both contained information that is classified up to the TS//SCI level, indicating that its unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security. The intelligence reporting was marked as such.

According to court documents, Frese and Journalist 1 lived together at the same residential address from January 2018 to November 2018.

In or about April of 2018, Journalist 1 introduced Frese to a second journalist (Journalist 2) [Courtney Kube from NBC]. Subsequently, Frese began texting and speaking with Journalist 2 by telephone. Between mid-2018 and late September 2019, Frese orally transmitted NDI classified at the Top Secret level to Journalist 1 on 12 separate occasions, and orally transmitted NDI classified at the Secret level to Journalist 1 on at least four occasions.

Frese knew the information was classified at the Secret and Top Secret levels because the intelligence products from which he had learned the classified information had visible classification markings as to the classification level of the information, and the intelligence products accessed by Frese were stored on secure, classified government information systems

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...ormation-journalists

When I was in the .mil....I’d have been making big rocks into little rocks if I released classified info....

I am guessing that it did not take long to determine who was the leaker. Probably the first thing they did was look at who her BF was. God I hope he spends some quality time at the Graybar Hotel, these leakers have to learn that this is serious.

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Originally posted by c1steve:
I am guessing that it did not take long to determine who was the leaker. Probably the first thing they did was look at who her BF was. God I hope he spends some quality time at the Graybar Hotel, these leakers have to learn that this is serious.

I don't know about it. It seems in Washington DC everyone is dating or married to someone in the media.

Like that guy Wolfe who was giving info to his journalist girlfriend. Wtf with these clowns. Thinking with little head. Have fun in the fed pen

I hope the sex was really amazing.

It may be a little different in the near future. (I hope.)

You can tell everyone involved is an amateur. Smarter journalists would've found other, legitimate corroboration once they knew what they were looking for. This pair just released the information and killed the golden goose. As for the golden goose, how in the hell did he not just plain expect that all this stuff would be published and eventually lead back to him?

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When I was in the .mil....I’d have been making big rocks into little rocks if I released classified info....

When I was in Korea, a Spec 4 who worked Cryptography in Incheon got drunk one night in a local bar and began blabbing to Korean girls about his work.

Next morning, two MP's woke him and took him away. MP packed his stuff.

We never saw him again.

Firing squad.

Until these insider bureaucrats get stiff jail sentences loss of benefits and pensions, it will never stop

Incredible how much of our government is CRAP.

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When I was in the .mil....I’d have been making big rocks into little rocks if I released classified info....

But, but that is cruel and inhuman!!!!!

Kidding aside, the same applied when I was in the army! As a matter of fact, there was a case in which a captain stole a crypto machine and shipped it to the states with his household goods. As I recall, he got 20 years. And rightly so.

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Henry Kyle Frese

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Firing squad.

In public

This stuff is called 'secret' for a reason.

Here in yUK we have the Official Secrets Act.

Once signed, that's it.

You are never absolved of your requirement to keep your foodhole shut.

There is another aspect of this that is not being addressed. If he transitioned from contractor to employee during the time he was disclosing information, he would have had to have passed a fairly intensive background check, including a polygraph. The folks who signed off on his hiring should be answering some questions too.

Jail time. The leakers and their cohorts are ripe for Blackmail and Espionage.

The Leakers should be held to the highest standards since it's Their Job.

McCabe lying to the FBI is different and Worse than Roger Stone Lying to the FBI- Both are wrong but only 1's job description requires honesty.

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Jail time



McCabe lying to the FBI is different and Worse than Roger Stone Lying to the FBI-

Maybe, but one is protected by the deep state, the other is just a friend of the Prez. So one goes to jail and the other gets to retire with full bene's. Guess which one.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Jail time



McCabe lying to the FBI is different and Worse than Roger Stone Lying to the FBI-

Maybe, but one is protected by the deep state, the other is just a friend of the Prez. So one goes to jail and the other gets to retire with full bene's. Guess which one.

I’ve got a wonder if an aspect of this isn’t as a “trap” for the President. Throw the book at Stone and try to get PDJT to pardon him so you have one more thing to bludgeon him with. It certainly seems like the four attorneys who lied to their bosses, then over-recommended on sentencing did it to draw a reaction from AG Barr that could be politicized. We certainly live in interesting times. I’m pretty sure we won’t have the satisfaction of seeing all these traitorous scum hanging from lampposts, but I’m hopeful that the swamp draining will continue and accelerate after the general election. In any case, time will tell.