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The week's 10-best A&E events in Baltimore Dec. 3-9, 2017. - Before The Intercept even published its bombshell story Monday, proving that Russian hackers sought to interfere in the U.S. election last year, Reality Winner, the 25-year-old woman who allegedly provided the classified information to the online news outlet was in federal custody, having been grabbed by agents at her home in Georgia over the weekend after a trip to the grocery store. Her case is a cautionary tale for would be leakers and journalists. The risks are extremely high, and both she
- The general who led the Pentagon's review of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history told a military judge on Wednesday that their publication revealed tactics, strained relations with some allies and caused some Afghans to stop cooperating with Americans.
- A military judge ruled Tuesday that Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning violated the Espionage Act when he gave a trove of classified material to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks to publish online. But Col. Denise Lind found the onetime Marylander not guilty of aiding the enemy.
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- Our national security system's lack of checks and balances assures the abuse of power — unless a few brave souls step forward
- The National Security Agency has responded to lawsuit filed by former NSA whistle-blowers who want confiscated computers back. The computers were seized during the investigation of Thomas Drake for leaking information to The Baltimore Sun.
- The year 2011 as seen through the rear-view mirror, the high- and the low lights of the year in Baltimore and Maryland
- Sen. Ben Cardin's effort to broaden the Espionage Act would harm the First Amendment and protect those in power who do wrong.
- A bill introduced by Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin intended to modernize the nation's 1917 Espionage Act has angered public access advocates who say it would limit the ability of federal employees to blow the whistle on government fraud and abuse.
- The NSA has extracted its pound of flesh from whistleblower Thomas Drake; the least it could do is return his personal property.
- Four former analysts at the National Security Agency and a congressional staffer who complained that government waste and mismanagement impeded efforts to protect America are heading to federal court to try and force authorities to return personal computers seized from their homes in 2007.
- Four former analysts at the National Security Agency and a congressional staffer who complained that government waste and mismanagement impeded efforts to protect America are heading to federal court to try to force authorities to return personal computers seized from their homes in 2007.
- Drake case shines a light on the problem of excessive classification of government data
- The judge in the case should have congratulated Drake for his efforts to expose incompetence and possible malfeasance at the National Security Agency
- Former NSA employee accused of espionage but convicted in a plea deal of "exceeding the authorized use of a computer," was sentenced to one year probation
- Former NSA employee Thomas Drake Thursday accepted a plea deal that cleared him of espionage charges stemming from an alleged leak of classified information to a Baltimore Sun reporter who wrote about waste and mismanagement at the Fort Meade-based agency.
