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DOD linguist sentenced for transmitting classified docs to Hezbollah
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A former contract linguist stationed in Iraq with the Department of Defense (DOD) was sentenced Wednesday, for knowingly transmitting classified information to a Lebanese national with ties to a designated terrorist organization.
Thompson will serve 23 years in prison. "The defendant’s decision to aid a foreign terrorist organization was a betrayal that endangered the lives of the very American men and women on the battlefield who had served beside her for more than a decade," Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Channing Phillips said Wednesday. "Let today’s sentence serve notice that there are serious consequences for anyone who betrays this country by compromising national defense information."More Related News