‘My Secret Informant Love’: Ex-Army Officer Leaked Russia-Ukraine War Secrets on Dating Site
A retired Army officer who worked as a civilian for the Air Force is heading to prison after he conspired to share classified information on a foreign online dating platform. According to the Associated Press, David Slater has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Wednesday. […]
Retired Army Officer Pleads Guilty to Leaking National Defense Info on Foreign Dating Website
A retired Army lieutenant colonel who worked as an Air Force civilian employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide classified information through an online dating app to someone claiming to be a person in Ukraine. On Thursday, 64-year-old David Slater entered his guilty plea, a Justice Department news release said. Slater, after retiring from […]
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charged with Leaking Classified Information on Dating Platform
A civilian employee at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was arrested and charged with providing classified information through an online dating app to someone claiming to be a woman in Ukraine, according to federal prosecutors. David Franklin Slater, a 63-year-old Air Force employee and retired Army lieutenant colonel assigned to U.S. Strategic Command, was […]
Army Suspends Ranger Training Battalion Commander as It Investigates Use of Online Dating App
A Ranger School commander was suspended in January amid an investigation into his conduct over online dating. Lt. Col. Nathan E. Showman was suspended Jan. 26 from his position as commander of the 5th Ranger Training Battalion at Camp Merrill in Dahlonega, Georgia, according to a service spokesperson. The suspension was first reported by Army […]
US Set to Destroy Its Last Chemical Weapons, Closing a Deadly Chapter Dating to World War I
RICHMOND, Ky. — At a sprawling military installation in the middle of the rolling green hills of eastern Kentucky, a milestone is about to be reached in the history of warfare dating back to World War I. Workers at the Blue Grass Army Depot are close to destroying rockets filled with GB nerve agent that […]