Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to Massive Secret Data Theft

A former National Security Agency contractor has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole an enormous amount of classified data and kept it at his Maryland home.

Harold Martin, a former NSA contractor, had pleaded guilty to 1 count of unauthorized and willful retention of national defense information as part of a plea deal for what might be the single largest theft of US government secrets in history. The plea deal dropped the remaining 19 charges and recommends a nine-year prison sentence and three years of supervised release.

"It's time to close Pandora's box," Martin told a federal judge in Baltimore on Thursday. He will be sentenced in July.

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Former Government Contractor Pleads Guilty to Federal Charge of Willful Retention of National Defense Information

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-government-contractor-pleads-guilty-federal-charge-willful-retention-national-defense