{"id":107826,"date":"2024-11-13T15:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T15:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/us-government-employee-charged-with-leaking-apparent-israeli-plans-to-retaliate-against-iran\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T15:03:28","slug":"us-government-employee-charged-with-leaking-apparent-israeli-plans-to-retaliate-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/us-government-employee-charged-with-leaking-apparent-israeli-plans-to-retaliate-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"US government employee charged with leaking apparent Israeli plans to retaliate against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-13\/Getty_DOJ_111324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Samuel Corum\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A man employed by the U.S. government abroad was charged with<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/purported-leaked-us-intelligence-docs-show-israels-plans\/story?id=114958696\"><span class=\"s1 s2\">\u00a0leaking what appears to be Israel\u2019s plans to retaliate against Iran<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, according to sources familiar with the matter and charging documents unsealed Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Asif William Rahman is charged with willful transmission of national defense information, according to a court documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The documents are vague about what exactly he allegedly shared, but sources have confirmed that the charges are related to the leak reported widely last month &#8212; although it\u2019s not immediately clear whether Rahman is believed to be the primary source of the leak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Tuesday, Rahman was arrested in Cambodia and brought to Guam, according to the charging documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In October, documents purporting to be Israel\u2019s retaliation plans were leaked on the internet, possibly exposing plans for the American ally \u2013 a deep breach of national security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters in October that they are taking the situation \u201cvery seriously.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/new-york\"><span class=\"s1 s2\">New York<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Times was first to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/13\/us\/politics\/israel-iran-leak.html\"><span class=\"s1 s2\">report<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0on Rahman\u2019s arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Corum\/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; A man employed by the U.S. government abroad was charged with\u00a0leaking what appears to be Israel\u2019s plans to retaliate against Iran, according to sources familiar with the matter and charging documents unsealed Wednesday. Asif William Rahman is charged with willful transmission of national<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/us-government-employee-charged-with-leaking-apparent-israeli-plans-to-retaliate-against-iran\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}