FBI Analyst Indicted for Theft of Osama bin Laden Threat Intel

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An FBI analyst with top-secret security clearance illegally squirreled away national-security documents related to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, cybersecurity and more in her home for years, the feds say.
 
Kendra Kingsbury, who was working in the FBI’s Kansas City Division until being put on leave in December 2017, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly routinely removing numerous documents from their safekeeping at the office, over and over during the period between June 2004 to Dec. 15, 2017.
 
“The breadth and depth of classified national security information retained by the defendant for more than a decade is simply astonishing,” said Alan Kohler, junior assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, in a statement.
“The defendant, who’s well trained in handling classified information, put her country’s sensitive secrets at risk. The FBI will go to great lengths to investigate individuals who put their own interests above U.S. national security, including when the individual is an FBI employee,” according to the indictment.

Kingsbury was an intelligence analyst for more than 12 years in Kansas City, until she was placed on suspension. She had been assigned to several different FBI “squads” during that time, dedicated to areas including illegal drug trafficking, violent crime, violent gangs and counterintelligence. The federal indictment charges Kingsbury with two counts of having unauthorized possession of documents relating to the national defense.

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