Harold Thomas Martin
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON stock took a trip south today on news that a former employer had been arrested over allegations he’d used his access as a government contractor to make off with top secret NSA documents. Harold Thomas Martin III was accused by the Department of Justice on two counts – theft of government property and unauthorized removal of classified documents. He faces up to 11 years in jail.
According to the indictment, Martin stole materials from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the United States Cyber Command, the United States Department of Defense and the National Reconnaissance Office. Martin used Twitter to contact Russian-based Kaspersky Lab, a cyber-security firm, which in turn alerted the National Security Agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigations used the information provided by Kaspersky researchers to obtain a search warrant of Martin's residence. According to the prosecutors, there is no evidence that Martin actually accessed any of the files he stole.
Martin's defense attorneys argued that he suffered from mental health issues, of which his hoarding was a symptom. Martin agreed to plead guilty in December 2017. This was scheduled to occur on January 22, 2018. Martin plead not guilty.
According to the court's Memorandum Opinion dated December 3, 2018, Martin's trial date is scheduled for June 17, 2019.
Why have we never heard of this guy?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/10/05/booz-allen-hamilton-nsa-files-shadow-brokers/#41b0b0516acc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_T._Martin_III
Possibly Connected?
During 2016, the Obama administration vastly expanded its searches for information about Americans in the National Security Agency (NSA) database. In 2013, there were 9,500 searches involving 198 Americans. In 2016, that escalated to 30,355 searches of 5,288 Americans.
In 2016, an inspector general found "widespread" abuse of key provisions designed to protect Americans. A FISC judge found so many violations that he described them as an institutional "lack of candor" and "a very serious Fourth Amendment issue."
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/399448-whatever-happened-to-the-unmaskings-probe
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3718776/2016-Cert-FISC-Memo-Opin-Order-Apr-2017-1.pdf
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