Ex-NSA contractor expected to plead guilty to stealing massive amount of documents.
A former contractor for the National Security Administration is accused of stealing classified material over 23 years.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — A former contractor for the National Security Agency, the federal government's super-secret codebreakers, was expected to plead guilty on Thursday to charges of stealing a huge volume of classified documents.
Harold Martin of Glen Burnie, Maryland, was arrested in August 2017 after thousands of secret documents in printed and digital form were found in his house, car and a storage shed. Investigators said the materials included names of covert U.S. intelligence officers. Some of them were operating under cover outside the U.S., federal officials said.
A trial for Martin was set for June, but court records said a federal judge would hold a hearing on Thursday at which he could change his plea to guilty. Since his arrest, investigators have struggled to figure out what Martin did with the material. He was not charged as a spy but was accused instead of illegally taking and retaining classified material."What he did caused real damage," a federal law enforcement official said Thursday.Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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