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FBI analyst took documents on bin Laden and al Qaeda and kept them for years, feds say. ...
National Security
FBI analyst took documents on bin Laden and al Qaeda and kept them for years, feds say. She’s now been charged.
By Derek Hawkins
May 22, 2021 at 2:44 p.m. EDT
A former FBI analyst with top-secret security clearance was indicted this week on charges that she illegally took numerous national security documents, including materials related to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and kept them in her home over the course of more than a decade.
The grand jury indictment, filed in federal court in Missouri and unsealed Friday, charges Kendra Kingsbury with two counts of gathering, transmitting or losing defense information, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Kingsbury, a 48-year-old from Dodge City, Kan., is accused of taking a range of materials between 2004 and 2017, many of which were marked secret because they discussed intelligence sources and methods, cyberthreats and other highly sensitive matters.
One batch of documents involved “internal correspondence” about a suspected bin Laden associate in Africa, according to the indictment. The files were from 2005 and 2006, when bin Laden, who masterminded the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was alive and on the run from U.S. forces.
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By Derek Hawkins
Derek Hawkins is a reporter covering national and breaking news. He previously covered cybersecurity for PowerPost and wrote about law, crime and politics for The Washington Post's Morning Mix. Twitter https://twitter.com/d_hawk
FBI analyst took documents on bin Laden and al Qaeda and kept them for years, feds say. She’s now been charged.
By Derek Hawkins
May 22, 2021 at 2:44 p.m. EDT
A former FBI analyst with top-secret security clearance was indicted this week on charges that she illegally took numerous national security documents, including materials related to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and kept them in her home over the course of more than a decade.
The grand jury indictment, filed in federal court in Missouri and unsealed Friday, charges Kendra Kingsbury with two counts of gathering, transmitting or losing defense information, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Kingsbury, a 48-year-old from Dodge City, Kan., is accused of taking a range of materials between 2004 and 2017, many of which were marked secret because they discussed intelligence sources and methods, cyberthreats and other highly sensitive matters.
One batch of documents involved “internal correspondence” about a suspected bin Laden associate in Africa, according to the indictment. The files were from 2005 and 2006, when bin Laden, who masterminded the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was alive and on the run from U.S. forces.
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By Derek Hawkins
Derek Hawkins is a reporter covering national and breaking news. He previously covered cybersecurity for PowerPost and wrote about law, crime and politics for The Washington Post's Morning Mix. Twitter https://twitter.com/d_hawk