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Ellicott City man, former NSA employee pleads guilty to taking classified information home
Baltimore Sun, Dec 1, 2017,  John Fritze

An Ellicott City man and former employee of the National Security Agency pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Baltimore to removing classified documents and bringing them home — the latest in a series of similar breaches at the spy agency to be publicly revealed.

Nghia Hoang Pho, 67, removed the documents over a period of five years ending in 2015, according to a plea agreement made public by the Justice Department. The material is reportedly believed to have been stolen from his computer by Russian hackers exploiting his personal antivirus software.

Pho took the documents home to help him write his resume but hackers are believed to have accessed them through antivirus software made by Kaspersky Lab, The New York Times reported Friday based on interviews with unnamed government officials.


More: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bs-md-nsa-pho-20171201-story.html

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Pho pleaded guilty to one count of willful retention of national defense information, which prosecutors said carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.



Meanwhile, Hillary walks.
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Nghia Hoang Pho, 67, removed the documents over a period of five years ending in 2015

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Pho took the documents home to help him write his resume



He was working on his resume for 5 years?
I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

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Nghia Hoang Pho, 67, removed the documents over a period of five years ending in 2015

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Pho took the documents home to help him write his resume



He was working on his resume for 5 years?

Probably just updating it, you know, just in case. Now he is really going to need it. Well not exactly
now but in five to ten years.

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No different than what Hillary did, yet she’s clean as a whistle. Sarc
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