
Air Force Worker Charged With Sharing Classified Ukraine War Information on Dating Site
Published on March 5, 2024
A civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force was arrested on Saturday for allegedly sharing classified information about the Russia-Ukraine war on a foreign dating platform, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). David Franklin Slater, 63, of Nebraska, is charged with conspiring to transmit and send classified National Defense Information (NDI) to an unidentified individual, who claimed to be a woman residing in Ukraine. Mr. Slater is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who held a top-secret security clearance at the United States Strategic Command between August 2021 and April 2022, according to the indictment. He retired from the Army in December 2020....
