Ex-NSA Employee Sentenced to 22 Years for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia

A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been sentenced to nearly 22 years (262 months) in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia.
« This sentence should serve as a stark warning to all those entrusted with protecting national defense information that there are consequences to betraying that trust, » said FBI Director Christopher Wray.