CNN —A federal contractor who worked for State and Justice departments has been charged with sending classified US information to Ethiopia, according to newly unsealed court documents. His government work, prosecutors say, gave him a security clearance access to highly classified information, which he illegally copied and shared with a foreign agent. He also allegedly accessed at least 48 additional intelligence reports and printed and downloaded highly classified information from those reports. initiates internal security reviewThe State Department made the discovery that a contractor was sending classified information to Ethiopia as part of a “self-initiated 60-day Internal Security Review of the Department of State’s Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) network, systems, and applications,” State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said Thursday. “During this review, information was uncovered indicating that a Department of State information technology contractor may have removed, retained and transmitted classified national defense information without authorization,” Miller said.

Source: Ethiopian News September 21, 2023 20:45 UTC