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Thu Jan 5, 2012, 02:47 PM

Jan 2012

"No, it was plead out, largely because of the 'threat'"

...the charges were dropped.

On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. He rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pleaded to one misdemeanor count for unauthorized computer access[9]; Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, who helped represent him, called it an act of "Civil Disobedience"[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake#Court_proceedings

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