ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former CIA analyst pleaded responsible Friday to leaking details about a deliberate Israeli assault on Iran.
Asif Rahman, 34, was arrested by the FBI weeks in November after labeled paperwork appeared on the Telegram messaging app.
He pleaded responsible in federal court docket in Virginia to 2 counts of willfully withholding and transmitting labeled info referring to nationwide protection, every of which carries a most sentence of 10 years in jail.
Prosecutors say Rahman, a CIA worker since 2016, abused his entry to top-secret info by accessing, eradicating and printing two paperwork associated to Israel and a deliberate assault on Iran. He then shared them with individuals who weren’t licensed to obtain them.
Two paperwork surfaced on Telegram in October, attributed to National Geospatial Intelligence Agency AND National Security Agencyfamous that Israel was nonetheless transferring army belongings to the positioning to conduct a army strike in response to Iran’s violent October 1 ballistic missile assault.
In late October, Israel carried out a retaliatory assault on air protection programs and missile manufacturing amenities in Iran. In court docket paperwork, the federal government stated the leak pressured Israel to delay its assault plans.
The paperwork have been shareable inside the “Five Eyes”, specifically the United States, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Rahman was born in California and moved together with his household when he was a toddler to Cincinnati, the place he was a highschool graduate, in keeping with court docket paperwork filed by his lawyer. He went to Yale University and graduated in three years. He and his spouse now dwell within the Washington metropolitan space, alongside together with his mother and father.
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