Ex-CIA expert sentenced to jail for leakage of classified Israeli strategies to strike Iran
Asif William Rahman acknowledged that he unlawfully downloaded, printed, and dispersed categorized info on numerous events, consisting of a number of in 2024.
A previous CIA expert who pleaded guilty in January over a leakage of classified Israeli strategies to strike Iran was sentenced to 37 months in jail on Wednesday, the United States Department of Justice stated.
In pleading guilty, Asif William Rahman, who had actually operated at the United States intelligence firm given that 2016, acknowledged that he unlawfully downloaded, printed, and dispersed categorized info on numerous events, consisting of a number of in 2024.
In the middle of high stress
United States ally Israel and its local competing Iran remained in the middle of high stress at the time and exchanged some blows.
Israel, at the time, was preparing to strike some Iranian websites in retaliation for a ballistic rocket attack that the Iranian federal government stated was a reaction to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination by Israel in Tehran.
Access to delicate info
Rahman had a “Supersecret” security clearance with access to Delicate Compartmented Info (SCI) till his work was ended after his arrest in late 2024.
The files, which involved strategies by Israel to strike Iran, later on appeared online after a pro-Iranian Telegram account called “Middle East Viewer” released them.
Rahman, 34, is from Vienna, Virginia, and was jailed in Cambodia, according to court records.
” Asif Rahman broke his position of trust by unlawfully accessing, eliminating, and sending Supersecret files important to the nationwide security of the United States and its allies,” Erik Siebert, United States Lawyer for the Eastern District of Virginia, stated on Wednesday.
