{"id":154024,"date":"2024-03-05T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=154024"},"modified":"2024-03-05T13:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:25:51","slug":"retired-ltc-caught-in-honey-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=154024","title":{"rendered":"Retired LTC Caught in Honey Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154025 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/honey-trap-1580697356-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/honey-trap-1580697356-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/honey-trap-1580697356-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/honey-trap-1580697356.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Air Force civilian allegedly sent classified information to woman on foreign dating site: &#8216;Secret agent&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>David Franklin Slater is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army who was working as a civilian at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska<\/em><br \/>\nGreg Wehner, David Spunt<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A civilian employee at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was indicted after he allegedly sent classified National Defense Information (NDI) electronically to a person he met on a foreign online dating platform in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, 63-year-old David Franklin Slater, of Nebraska, worked in a classified space with the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) at Offutt Air Force Base, from August 2021 until April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>While working there, Slater held a Top Secret clearance, the U.S. Department of Justice said, and he took the position after retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n<p>Slater allegedly &#8220;willingly, improperly, and unlawfully&#8221; sent NDI that was classified as &#8220;SECRET,&#8221; with reason to believe the information could be used against the U.S. or to aid a foreign country, to a person on a foreign online dating platform who was not authorized to receive the information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As alleged, Mr. Slater, an Air Force civilian employee and retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, knowingly transmitted classified national defense information to another person in blatant disregard for the security of his country and his oath to safeguard its secrets.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/air-force-civilian-allegedly-sent-classified-information-woman-foreign-dating-site-secret-agent\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Retired 0-5 pay and cushy contractor gig, all gone for what? Mr. Slater really really should have known better. H\/T to Mick for the inspiration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force civilian allegedly sent classified information to woman on foreign dating site: &#8216;Secret agent&#8217; David &hellip; <a title=\"Retired LTC Caught in Honey Trap\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=154024\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retired LTC Caught in Honey Trap<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":154025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-guest-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}