He FBI arrested an agent of the INCfrom the United States government accused of leaking confidential and sensitive information about Israel’s plans to attack Iranas reported The New York Times. The man, identified as Asif William Rahmanwas arrested in Cambodia and would be judged in the city of guam.
Rahman was charged in federal court in the state of Virginia with two counts of “intentional” dissemination of national defense information. This is a serious crime that could lead to long prison sentences.
CIA agent arrested for leaking Israeli attack plans
It is unknown if the accused has a defense, but they say that Rahman had high-level authorization and access to sensitive compartmented information. The information was leaked a little over a month ago in the messaging service Telegrambased in Russia.
The documents are referred to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Security Agency (NSA). As The New York Times was able to reconstruct, the material indicated that Israel was mobilizing military personnel and equipment to carry out an offensive against Iran in response to the October 1 attacks.
File severity
As it turned out, the files “could only be shared between United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia”. Among the first hypotheses, the possibility was included that it was an intentional leak by a member of the US intelligence community or some other method, such as hacking.
In addition, an exhaustive analysis of private documents with the intention of discarding any other intelligence information that could be at risk. To find Rahman, a record was made of who were the people who had access to the information before it was published and, using high-caliber computer tracking technology, the location of the accused was found.
Donald Trump named former Governor Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel
American president-elect donald trump chose as US ambassador to Israel to the former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee. As a pro-Israel stance more than adds to the administration, he previously argued that “There is no such thing as a Palestinian.”
It was in 2008 that Huckabee made the controversial statement. Trump, for his part, has expressed that “Mike has been a great public servant, governor and leader in faith for many years.” The magnate also completed that Huckabee “loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise , the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to achieve Peace in the Middle East!”.
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