Harold T. Martin III, a Boaz-Allen contractor for the NSA when he was caught, accumulated a number of classified documents over a 20 year career.
DOJ Announcement
U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Harold Thomas Martin, III, age 54, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for willful retention of national defense information.
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Martin admitted that beginning in the late 1990s and continuing through Aug. 31, 2016, he stole and retained U.S. government property from secure locations and computer systems, including documents in both hard copy and digital form relating to the national defense, that bore markings indicating that they were the property of the United States and contained highly classified information of the United States, including Top Secret/SCI information.
As detailed in his plea agreement, Martin retained the stolen documents and other classified information at his residence and in his vehicle. Martin knew that the hard copy and digital documents stolen from his workplace contained classified information that related to the national defense and that he was never authorized to retain these documents at his residence or in his vehicle. Martin admitted that he also knew that the unauthorized removal of these materials risked their disclosure, which would be damaging to the national security of the United States and highly useful to its adversaries.
In court documents and at today’s sentencing hearing, the government noted that crimes such as Martin’s not only create a risk of unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, highly classified information, but often require the government to treat the stolen material as compromised, resulting in the government having to take remedial actions including changing or abandoning national security programs. In addition, Martin’s criminal conduct caused the government to expend substantial investigative and analytical resources. The diversion of those resources resulted in significant costs.
WAPO article
Harold T. Martin III, 54, has already been in jail for nearly three years since the FBI raided his home in Glen Burnie, Md., on Aug. 27, 2016.
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In the three years since the raid, the government has not alleged that Martin leaked any of that information, and prosecutors confirmed Friday that nothing Martin took had been disseminated.
Harold Martin was arrested two days after the raid, and jailed for 3 years while the trial was ongoing. So
- Donald Trump should be arrested, and jailed, immediately
- Donald Trump is being coddled by the Department of Justice, treated with extreme deference, and should stop whining about how unfair the FBI is. or …
- HT Martin III should be released from prison immediately, since stealing classified material is no big deal.