Former FBI Contract Linguist Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Information to Blogger - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A former FBI contract linguist pleaded guilty today to unlawfully providing classified documents to the host of an Internet blog who then published information derived from those documents on the blog.
The guilty plea was announced by David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland; and Richard A. McFeely, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Baltimore Field Office.
Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, aka Samuel Shamai Leibowitz, 39, of Silver Spring, Md., pleaded guilty in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., to a one-count information charging him with knowingly and willfully disclosing to an unauthorized person five FBI documents classified at the 'secret' level that contained classified information concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States.
Under the plea agreement, the government and Leibowitz have agreed that a term of 20 months in prison is the appropriate sentence in this case. The court may accept or reject the plea agreement between the government and Leibowitz. In addition, the court retains discretion to impose any lawful term of supervised release or fine, and to set any lawful conditions of supervised release.
'The willful disclosure of classified information to those not entitled to receive it is a serious crime,' said David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. 'Today's guilty plea should serve as a warning to anyone in government who would consider compromising our nation's secrets.'
'Government employees who are given access to classified information are prohibited from disclosing the information without permission,' said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein."
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