US Seeks 2-Year Sentence for Ex-Senate Staffer Indicted in Leak Probe

James Wolfe, former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, walks out from the Washington FBI Field Office after being processed on June 11, 2018 in Washington. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Federal prosecutors in Washington are calling for a 24-month sentence for James Wolfe, the former senior Senate staffer who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI investigators probing the leak of a top-secret document.

In a court memo filed late on Dec. 11, prosecutors ask Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to issue a harsher sentence for Wolfe than the zero-to-six months outlined in the sentencing guidelines, arguing the defendant “disrupted an important governmental function and endangered national security.”