Military Personnel Indicted for Sharing Classified Information on Dating Sites
Retired US army colonel David Franklin Slater has been charged with illegally sharing classified information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through a foreign dating website to a person he believed was a woman in Ukraine. Slater, who had a top security clearance while working at US Strategic Command, faces a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to transmit and the transmission of national defense information.