Ex-Federal Contractor Indicted For Leaks To Fox News

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Source: Talking Points Memo

Ex-Federal Contractor Indicted For Leaks To Fox News
Ryan J. Reilly | August 30, 2010, 2:45PM

A former contractor for the State Department has been indicted on charges he leaked national defense information to a national news organization, according to an indictment unsealed late Friday.

Stephen Jin-Woo Kim -- a former senior adviser for intelligence who was on a detail to the arms control compliance bureau in the State Department -- allegedly gave national defense information to a reporter. The news organization is believed to be Fox News, and the information was about North Korea, according to news reports.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR2010082704602.html

A review of Fox News articles about North Korea in that period -- when concerns about North Korea's missile launches were reaching a fever pitch -- reveals a June 23, 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/23/intel-north-korea-expected-launch-short-medium-range-missiles/ story that says North Korea issuing a warning to mariners about an upcoming live-fire missile exercise in which the country was "likely to fire short- and medium-range missiles, based on the splashdown zone referred to in the notice and other activities that are consistent with such launches." The story refers to "counterproliferation officials" in addition to the defense officials cited in much of the rest of Fox's coverage at the time, and went on to discuss the specifics of North Korea's missile and nuclear arsenals.

Kim's lawyers said the prosecution was inappropriate.

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