Ex-NSA contractor expected to plead guilty to stealing massive amount of documents.
A former contractor for the National Security Administration is accused of stealing classified material over 23 years.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — A former contractor for the National Security Agency, the federal government's super-secret codebreaker, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he stole and held onto classified government secrets.
After Thursday's hearing, his defense lawyers said Martin's actions"were the product of mental illness, not treason."FBI investigators estimated at the time that Martin's stash included digital information equal to 500 million pages of text and images, easily the largest theft of official secrets ever, dwarfing what intelligence officials say was stolen by Edward Snowden — also an NSA contract employee.
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