Dale Britt Bendler “​​earned approximately $360,000 in private client fees while also working as a full-time CIA contractor with daily access to highly classified material that he searched like it was his own personal Google,” according to a court record.
  • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I’m pretty sure he’s far from the only one. Databases with such a vast amount of “forbidden” knowledge will always be misused.

    That’s why we shouldn’t have global surveillance, espionage and “highly classified material” wherever it’s possible for agencies to do their jobs without them.

    And I’d argue most of the data the contractor had access to was neither relevant for his own work, nor for the work of all of the CIA.

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      We’ve known since Snowden that these people browse private info for fun, and exchange anything spicy they find with each other. But this guy was straight up selling classified info to anyone who would buy it.

      I’m shocked they’re letting this guy off with a plea deal. This was so far beyond misuse of systems. This was full on treason.

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I’m shocked they’re letting this guy off with a plea deal. This was so far beyond misuse of systems. This was full on treason.

        but he didn’t try to run or get caught running in russia; so he’s ok. lol

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        14 days ago

        He probably kept it all in cardboard boxes in his bathroom, which as we all know is totally fine now.