The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that it has charged an active-duty soldier for allegedly attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign adversary, among other counts.
Taylor Adam Lee, 22, is accused in a criminal complaint of seeking to “transmit sensitive national defense information to Russia” relating to how to operate the United States’ primary battle tank, the M1 Abrams, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said in a statement.