CIA Official With Top Security Clearance Charged For Leaking Highly Classified Docs About Israel’s Plans To Strike Iran

 The New York Post reports that a CIA officer has been charged with leaking classified information:

A CIA official has been charged with leaking highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s potential plan to retaliate against Iran for a missile strike earlier this year.

Asif W. Rahman (seen in the above photo), who worked overseas for the agency and held a top-secret security clearance, was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Tuesday and indicted under the Espionage Act, the New York Times reported.

His arrest comes after the top secret materials started circulating online last month detailing Israel’s apparent intention to hit back at Iran after the country launched a barrage of missiles back on Oct. 1.    

The official was charged with leaking highly classified documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran.

The files, which were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, in part detailed satellite imagery tied to the potential Israeli strike, as well as the various kinds of missiles on hand. They were posted by a telegram account called “Middle East Spectator.”

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CIA official with top security clearance indicted for leaking highly classified documents about Israel's plans to strike Iran

You can also read the Justice Department’s press release below:

U.S. Government Employee Charged with Two Counts of Unlawfully Transmitting National Defense Information

A U.S. government employee working overseas was charged with unlawfully transmitting two highly sensitive classified documents last month.

According to court documents, Asif William Rahman, 34, held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance as part of his role working for the U.S. government. According to an indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia on Nov. 7, Rahman, on or about Oct. 17, retained without authorization two documents classified at the Top Secret/SCI level, which contained information relating to national defense, and transmitted those documents to a person not entitled to receive them.

Rahman made his initial appearance in federal court in Guam on Nov. 14. The court ordered Rahman’s continued detention and removal from the District of Guam for further court hearings in the Eastern District of Virginia.

The FBI is investigating the case with valuable assistance from the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting the case.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.