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U.S. official charged with leaking secrets to journalists

By MICHAEL BALSAMO articles containing classi- leads the Justice Depart-
Associated Press fied defense information ment's national security di-
WASHINGTON (AP) — A between May and July of vision.
Defense Intelligence Agen- last year, prosecutors said. Federal investigators be-
cy official was arrested In April 2018, after Frese lieve Frese was "taking di-
Wednesday and charged accessed one of the intel- rection from members of
with leaking classified intel- ligence reports, she sent the media" because he
ligence information to two him a private message on had searched for the intel-
journalists, including a re- Twitter asking if he would ligence documents that
porter he was dating, the be willing to speak with an- were outside of his area
Justice Department said. other journalist who pros- of expertise, according to
Henry Kyle Frese, 30, was ecutors said worked at Alan Kohler, the special
arrested by the FBI when another outlet owned by agent in charge of coun-
he arrived at work at a DIA the same company, court terintelligence at the FBI's
facility in Virginia. He was documents said. The sec- field office in Washington.
charged with willfully dis- Attorney General for the Eastern District of Virginia G. Zachary ond journalist is believed to Although officials would
closing national defense Terwilliger, right, accompanied by Assistant United States Attor- be Kube. not rule out the possibility of
information. ney Danya Atiyeh, left, takes a question from a reporter after Frese replied that he would bringing criminal charges
Frese, who has a top secret announcing the arrest of Henry Kyle Frese, a Defense Intelli- help if it could help ad- against the journalists, the
government security clear- gence Agency official charged with leaking classified informa- vance the first reporter's ca- top prosecutor whose of-
tion to two journalists, including one he was dating, during a
ance, is alleged to have news conference outside the federal courthouse in Alexandria, reer because he wanted to fice is prosecuting the case
accessed at least five clas- Va., Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. see her "progress," accord- said investigators are "fo-
sified intelligence reports Associated Press ing to the documents. cused on the leaker, not
and provided top secret The government also inter- the journalist."
information about another sions pledged to take a of NBC News. Those posts cepted a call in September Frese was involved in "das-
country's weapons systems stand against leaks, and include a photo of Macias during which Frese alleged- tardly and felonious con-
to the reporter with whom the Justice Department and Frese on Instagram ly read classified national duct at the expense of our
he was having a relation- has brought at least six leak from 2017. defense information to the country," said G. Zachary
ship. investigation cases in the The Justice Department second journalist, the doc- Terwilliger, U.S. attorney for
The arrest is the latest in a past two years. declined to provide any uments say. the Eastern District of Virgin-
series of prosecutions un- Neither reporter was iden- additional details about "Frese betrayed the trust ia. He said Frese's behavior
der the Trump administra- tified by name in court the classified information placed in him by the Amer- was "not selfless or heroic, it
tion of government work- documents, but an analysis that was leaked, but the ican people — a betrayal is criminal."
ers accused of providing of news articles and social articles focused on China's that risked harming the na- It was not immediately
nonpublic information to media posts indicates they missile systems. tional security of this coun- clear whether Frese had
journalists. In 2017, then- are Amanda Macias of The reporter, believed to try," said Assistant Attorney a lawyer who could com-
Attorney General Jeff Ses- CNBC and Courtney Kube be Macias, published eight General John Demers, who ment on his behalf. q

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