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November 15, 2013

AP Source Sentenced to 3 Years for Leak on Yemen Operation 
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A former FBI agent has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in
prison for leaking secret information about a U.S. operation in Yemen
that was published in an Associated Press report. The AP story sparked
the mass collection of reporters' phone records by the Obama
administration in what the outlet's president called a "massive and
unprecedented intrusion." The leaker, Donald Sachtleben, was also
sentenced to an additional eight years in prison for unrelated child
pornography charges.

 

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