More Traitors: DIA Official Arrested, Charged with Leaking to His Reporter-Lover and Her Reporter-Girlfriend

 


Henry Kyle Frese
 

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 1:09:00 A.M. EDT

DIA Employee Charged with Leaking to the Media (His Girlfriend)

GRA: I condensed this story somewhat.

(Breitbart News) Amidst a battle between the President of the United States and the Intelligence Community that has sparked formal impeachment proceedings against the President by Democrats in Congress, federal law enforcement officials have formally charged one intelligence community official with leaking highly classified information to the media.

This comes in the wake of a top-ranking congressional intelligence committee staffer facing similar charges of leaking last year and sets the stage for a larger fight between Trump and intelligence community leakers.
 


Amanda Macias
 

The nature of these intelligence community leakers’ deeply personal relationships with the reporters to whom they were leaking — both cases involved romantic relationships — seems more like a House of Cards episode than real life.

But the federal law enforcement charges against each casts the intelligence community as a whole in a deeply negative light, as Democrats on Capitol Hill begin to rely on these spooks for their increasingly partisan impeachment efforts against Trump.

The case of the leaker ensnared on Wednesday showed how anti-Trump intelligence officials are using their relationships with the media to risk their careers [and their liberty, if not their lives] to leak classified information embarrassing to the Trump administration.

Henry Kyle Frese, an employee with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), was charged with two counts of leaking classified information to two journalists identified by journalist Matthew Keys and later the Wall Street Journal as CNBC’s Amanda Macias and NBC News’s Courtney Kube. Frese and Macias were romantically involved.

The complaint against Frese said, in or about mid-April to May 2018, he accessed an intelligence report unrelated to his job duties “on multiple occasions.” A week after he accessed the report a second time, “Journalist 1” — believed to be Macias, asked him to speak to “Journalist 2” — believed to be Kube. Frese told Journalist 1 he was “down” to help Journalist 2 if it helped her because he wanted to see her “progress.”

[N.S.: Was Frese sleeping with Kube, too?]

Frese would later search on a classified U.S. government computer system for terms related to the topics contained in the intelligence report. A few hours after searching those terms, he spoke with Journalist 1 for seven minutes, and spoke to Journalist 2 for over half an hour. About half an hour after he spoke with both journalists, Journalist 1 published an article through her outlet, which contained classified information from the report. After Journalist 1 tweeted the article, Frese retweeted it.

[N.S.: Talk about reckless!]

 


Henry Kyle Frese and Amanda Macias, not hiding a thing
 

In September 2019, Frese accessed two additional intelligence reports, and texted Journalist 2 to tell her to call him. During the call, he transmitted classified information.

The Justice Department said in a statement that Frese “was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information for personal gain.”

“The unauthorized disclosure of top secret information could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security of the United States,” it said.

Prosecutors said Macias published eight articles containing classified defense information between May and July 2018, according to the Guardian. Frese was arrested Wednesday when he showed up for work and was due to appear later that day in U.S. district court in Alexandria, Virginia.

Frese, like the intelligence official who filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Trump asked Ukraine to interfere with the 2020 elections, has a background in Russia and NATO, according to his Twitter profile.

GRA: Treason? Frese definitely, Macias definitely—probably Kube, as well. What will CNBC and NBC do with them?
--GRA


 


Courtney Kube