A former CIA analyst was sentenced to over three years in prison on Wednesday for obtaining highly classified information and giving it to people who were not authorized.
Asif Rahman was arrested in November 2024 for taking “Top Secret National Defense Information” and sending it to “people who were not entitled to receive it” in October 2024, the Department of Justice announced. The information Rahman obtained was reportedly highly classified information about a planned attack by Israel on Iran. Shortly after distributing this, it was posted on a social media platform later that month.
In January 2025, about two months after his arrest, the DOJ reported that Rahman pleaded guilty to his transgressions.
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“Mr. Rahman betrayed the trust of the American people by unlawfully sharing
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