In the last few years, the New York Times has had many stories attributed to high level leaks. You can see examples here and here. Now, a high level NSA official has been arrested for leaking multiple stories to an unnamed newspaper. Hmm...
Former NSA executive charged with...
A former senior executive with the National Security Agency has been indicted on 10 felony charges...
Thomas A. Drake, 52, headed an office in the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate at Fort Meade between 2001 and 2005, and continued to work with the agency as a high-ranking contractor through 2008, U.S. officials said. The indictment alleges that Drake exchanged hundreds of e-mails with an unidentified reporter[s] for a national newspaper and served as a source for its articles about Bush administration intelligence policies between February 2006 and November 2007, U.S. officials said.
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