An employee of the U.S. Air Force has been indicted on suspicion of illegally leaking national defense secrets during a date**.
According to Reuters news on the 5th local time, the U.S. Department of Justice said that David Franklin Slater, an employee of the U.S. Air Force, was prosecuted for allegedly illegally leaking classified national defense information on dating**.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal court in Nebraska charged that in 2022, Slater, a civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force, shared classified information about the Russia-Ukraine conflict on a date** to a "woman who claimed to be living in Ukraine." Slater has recently been charged with unlawful disclosure and conspiracy to divulge national defense information.
Fox News reported that Slater, 63, a former lieutenant colonel in the Army, retired and was assigned to the U.S. Strategic Command at Overford Air Force Base from August 2021 to April 2022 and received top secret clearance.
U.S. Overford Air Force Base Data map.
According to the Associated Press, prosecutors said that despite signing relevant documents guaranteeing "no disclosure of classified information", Slater began sharing details about military targets and some military classified information related to Russia with a woman living in Ukraine on a date** during regular briefings on the Russia-Ukraine conflict from February to April 2022. In addition, according to the indictment, the woman who was indicted with Slater (whose identity has not yet been confirmed by the prosecution) repeatedly asked Slater for sensitive information and described Slater as "her secret informant lover."
According to the report, Slater will appear in court for the first time on the 5th local time, and if convicted, he may face up to 10 years in prison.