FILE PHOTO: A police booking mugshot shows U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Henry Kyle Frese after his arrest by U.S. federal authorities on charges that he leaked classified materials about a foreign country's weapons system to two journalists, in an image that was released by the Alexandria SheriffÕs Office in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. on October 10, 2019. Alexandria SheriffÕs Office/Handout via REUTERS
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former counterterrorism analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency to serve two and a half years in prison for leaking classified material about a foreign country’s weapons system to two journalists, the Justice Department said.
The sentencing came after Henry Kyle Frese, 31, pleaded guilty in February https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-leak/u-s-counterterrorism-analyst-pleads-guilty-to-media-leaks-idUSKBN20E30 to one count of wilful transmission of top secret national defense information, a charge that carried a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Frese was arrested in October https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-leak/u-s-arrests-counterterrorism-analyst-over-leaks-to-journalists-idUSKBN1WO2C4 over the charges.
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