Retired Army officer charged with sharing classified information about Ukraine on foreign dating site

[BumRushDaShow]

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Source: CBS News

March 4, 2024 / 6:46 PM EST


Washington — A retired Army lieutenant colonel was arrested Saturday and accused of illegally disclosing sensitive national defense information on a foreign dating site, according to charging documents.

David Franklin Slater, 63 — who most recently worked as a civilian Air Force employee assigned to United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) — allegedly communicated with an unnamed person claiming to be a woman living in Ukraine and sent the individual secret Pentagon documents about Russia's war in that country, court filings said.

STRATCOM is the U.S. military combatant command responsible for nuclear deterrence and nuclear command and control and is headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. While working at STRATCOM, Slater had a Top Secret Security clearance, according to the filings, and received training for the proper handling of sensitive government information.

"Certain responsibilities are incumbent to individuals with access to Top Secret information. The allegations against Mr. Slater challenge whether he betrayed those responsibilities," said U.S. Attorney Susan Lehr for the District of Nebraska. After retiring from the army in 2020, prosecutors said Slater started working for STRATCOM in August 2021, where he attended top secret briefings about the war in Ukraine. STRATCOM confirmed he was an employee in its Directorate of Logistics until 2022

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retired-army-officer-david-slater-sharing-ukraine-classified-information-dating-site/

[TwilightZone]

1. FIrst, it was gaming buddies on Discord. Now, it's dating sites.

These guys aren't too bright.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I can see the 21-year old

But this guy is 63 (and retired military).

[TwilightZone]

6. Agreed.

He's going to learn a painful lesson, as did the 21-year-old.

[AllaN01Bear]

22. loose lips sink ships.

[COL Mustard]

12. IIRC, this kind of offense is one where

You can lose your retirement...military or civil service.

[MotownPgh]

32. Double dip

Retired with pension still on govt dime. Sensitive info not restricted as we've learned over and over. The retirement issue is a corporation problem as well.

[paleotn]

13. Thinking with his little head, not his big one.

It happens more times than we'd like to be reminded. Thus the Russians became very good at it since Catherine the Great and probably before that.

[MLAA]

18. Reminds me of General Petraeus.

SOB gave access to confidential info to his mistress.

From Wikipedia:

On April 23, 2015, Petraeus pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials. He was given a two-year probationary period and a fine of $100,000

[IronLionZion]

27. At least she was a real woman

the online dating catfish are often dudes.

[MLAA]

30. True! Doubly stupid.

My guess is the current ego heavy idiot really thought that 25 year old was interested in him!

[Attilatheblond]

28. Don't kid yourself. Older men can be just as lonely/horney as many 30-somethings

Being 70+, it surprises me some old goat hits on me now and then. The guys looking for foreign girls know they are in it to buy a compliant not-American woman, young, pretty, and hopefully conditioned to be obedient. Evidently, their, ahem, mental state has them thinking with something lower than their brains.

Loneliness makes people desperate sometimes. And stupid a lot of times.

EDIT:
Opps meant this in response to # 4

[MLAA]

31. True and loneliness and ego don't mix well.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. WTF!!!

[mysteryowl]

3. Let me guess... he is a trumpian RW fool

Puke

[getagrip_already]

5. ding-ding-ding you win the prize!

They are making it such a joke to be an actual patriot who believes in your country, its secrets, and its allies, that people think it's funny to just blurt stuff out to look cool. It's their right cuz it's putins country and we have no right to be there.

This is the crap trump dumped on us. This is the caustic shit he is responsible for.

I hope he has to wake up at 5:00 am every day and work hard until 8:00 pm, 7 days a week, until he is too old to get out of bed.

[NBachers]

7. Looks like somebody caught a big catfish.

[FakeNoose]

9. I hate to think that this is what occupies the FBI's time now

...catfishing the retired military guys who are blabbing secrets to impress "women" on dating sites.

[Attilatheblond]

29. Well, they are charged with counter-intel work to protect classified information

and a lot of men are really REALLY dumb.

[marble falls]

8. Jail him.

[Dan]

10. Another person that will probably run for President...

[COL Mustard]

11. Ya just can't trust them dang Lieutenant Colonels these days!

On a dating site? WTF was he thinking? At 63 he should be old enough not to let his little friend down below do his thinking for him!

[Ray Bruns]

20. "At 63 he should be old enough not to let his little friend down below do his thinking for him!"

I’m 60 and it hasn’t happened to me. I don’t think you ever grow out of it.

[AverageOldGuy]

14. "Certain responsibilities are incumbent to individuals with access to Top Secret information."

Prove it.

[orangecrush]

15. How can intelligent people be so stupid

I suspect there's booze involved.

[IronLionZion]

16. Annual trainings on phishing just going out the window

when faced with a cute catfish online

[tanyev]

26. Cute catfish photos.

He probably would have been very disappointed with the actual appearance, age and maybe even gender of the person or people he was interacting with.

[Dem2theMax]

17. Now do Trump.

[Ray Bruns]

19. Does anyone in this country know how to keep their trap shut anymore?

[atreides1]

21. Maybe, just maybe...

This guy should claim that he's running for office, and that this is election interference...too bad he doesn't have a judge or 6 in his pocket, to make sure of constant delays...

[Bengus81]

24. LOL...yeah,should have filed for some office somewhere before he plead out

[Bengus81]

23. Shucks....Trump just lost ANOTHER vote

Add that one to all of those MAGA fools he killed during Covid.

[rickford66]

25. This is the justice Trump should have received.