A contractor for the Department of Defense (DOD) has been arrested and charged with passing highly classified information, including the names of U.S. human intelligence sources, to a foreign national with apparent ties to the terrorist group Hezbollah, the Justice Department announced.
Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, who formerly resided in Rochester, Minnesota, allegedly began accessing the classified information on or about Dec. 30, 2019, the day after U.S. airstrikes against Iranian-backed forces in Iraq, investigators said in an affidavit (pdf). It was also the same day protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Iraq.
