A former National Security Agency official was hit with a 10-count indictment today for allegedly leaking top secret information to a national newspaper, Wired reports. But the indictment does not disclose which newspaper.
“Thomas Andrews Drake, 52, was a high-ranking NSA employee with access to signals intelligence documents when he repeatedly leaked classified information to the unnamed reporter, who ran stories based on the leaks between February 2006 and November 2007, the indictment alleges,” reports Wired. “According to the indictment, Drake exchanged hundreds of e-mails with the reporter and met him or her in person in the Washington, DC area half-a-dozen times. Drake also researched stories for the journalist, sending e-mail to other NSA employees asking questions, and accessing classified documents to obtain information. Drake even reviewed and edited drafts of the reporter's articles, the government says.”