Topic: SECURITY - on January 19, 2012 at 1:18:00 PM CET
Feds: Ex-NSA analyst had top-secret-plus info on home computers
Computers seized from a retired National Security Agency analyst's home in 2007 contained information that is classified at a level beyond "top secret," officials said in court filings Tuesday.
A prosecutor and a senior NSA official made the claim to a federal court in Baltimore in response to a motion ex-NSA analyst Kirk Wiebe filed in November, demanding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation return items seized from Wiebe's Westminster, Md. home four-and-a-half years ago.
"Documents [found on hard drives in Wiebe's home] contain information that is currently and properly classified TOP SECRET//SI/REL to USA, FVEY," the deputy chief of staff for signals intelligence policy and corporate issues in NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate wrote in a declaration. The NSA official who signed the declaration (posted here) gave his name solely as "Steven E. T.," in keeping with an NSA policy of not publicly identifying most of its employees.
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