Talk about oversharing. A former US Army officer has pleaded guilty for sharing classified information to a user on a foreign dating site.
Last week, the Justice Department announced the news, which suggests the former army officer might have fallen for a romance scam on the unnamed dating platform.
The 64-year-old Franklin David Slater, a retired lieutenant colonel based in Nebraska, sent the defense secrets to a user claiming to be a Ukrainian woman back in 2022 when Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Although Slater had retired from the US Army in 2020, he had started work the next year as a civilian contractor for US Strategic Command and dealt with classified information, according to court documents. This included receiving briefings concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Investigators say that while Slater was well aware of the confidentiality of the information, he shared the defense secrets with a user on a dating site claiming to be a Ukrainian woman, wh...
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