Ex-US soldier Sgt. Joseph Schmidt accused of spying for China searched 'Can you be extradited for treason': feds
Ex-Army Sgt. Joseph Schmidt, 29, was charged with trying to share classified information with Beijing.
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Ex-Army Sgt. Joseph Schmidt, 29, was charged with trying to share classified information with Beijing.
Joseph Schmidt, who worked in military intelligence, faces two charges for allegedly trying to hand national defense information to China. One alleged document was entitled "High Level Secrets."
Lawyers took the notes and did in fact put them behind code word protection on a special server that would typically be reserved for the highest level secrets. and what is important to know about this is now officials are also saying, kellyanne conway in particular, that after the early days of the trump administration, when some of the president's foreign leader phone calls which are typically classified by their very nature to protect those conversations, that there were leaks that ended up being embarrassing to the president. he was criticized for the way that he interacted. that they tight...
China, if they were divided. if he threw them into the sea. the damage was basically the military, the pentagon had to spend a five months going through 1,500,000 files every sort, every method had to be canceled, a huge district of exercise that happened and we've suffered because of it. >> tucker: i didn't understand it from what you wrote on why the nsa would have given snowden who was not an employee, a contractor access to level three secrets, the highest level secrets. why would they have let him handle those or have access to them? >> snowden somehow learned that another contractor booz...
The damage was basically the military, the pentagon had to spend five months going through source, every method had to be every method had to be canceled, a huge district of exercise that happened and we've suffered because of it. >> tucker: i didn't understand from what you wrote on why the nsa would have given snowden whf was not an employee, a contractor access to level three secrets, the highest level secrets. why would they have let him handle those or have access to them? >> snowden somehow learned that another contractor booz allen hamilton had a contract to work on level three where th...