Ex-DIA employee pleads guilty over top-secret leaking to reporters

Henry Kyle Frese, 31, a former employee for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) wasn't very intelligent. He pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to leaking highly classified information to two reporters.

Frese, of Alexandria, Virginia worked as a counterterrorism analyst for the agency from February 2018 to October of last year. He held a top-secret security clearance.

A reporter published eight articles revealing classified material about the capabilities of certain foreign countries' weapons systems, as court papers cited in a press release from the DOJ. The articles contained information from five classified intelligence reports made available only to those DIA staff who were appropriately cleared in the first half of 2018.

The topic covered in all of the reports was outside the scope of Frese’s job duties as an analyst covering counterterrorism, according to the DOJ.

The reporter’s articles contained information derived from the classified intelligence reports, which meant that it had been illegally disclosed and risked damaging national security.

According to court documents, Frese and the reporter lived together from January 2018 to November 2018.

Around April 2018, the reporter introduced Frese to another reporter, whom he began in contact with by telephone and texting, according to the DOJ.

Between mid-2018 and late September 2019, Frese orally transmitted classified information to the first reporter on at least 16 separate occasions, the Justice Department said.

There was no doubt that the scumbag Frese knew the information he was providing was classified at top-secret levels because the documents were visibly labeled as such regarding the level of classification.

The documents Frese accessed were also stored on secure, classified government information systems, according to the DOJ, unlike the documents in which Hillary Clinton used BleachBit and is still on the loose.

On at least 30 separate occasions in 2018, Frese conducted searches on classified government systems for information regarding the classified topics he had discussed with both reporters. On multiple occasions in 2018 and 2019, Frese conducted searches on classified government systems because of specific requests for information.

“Frese violated the trust placed in him by the American people when he disclosed sensitive national security information for personal gain,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers. “He alerted our country’s adversaries to sensitive national defense information, putting the nation’s security at risk."

Frese pleaded guilty to the willful transmission of top-secret national defense information. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison when sentenced in June, which he will hopefully receive and share a cell with an ex-NFL linebacker named Bubba.

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