SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3) -A Texas County, Mo., man has been indicted with two counts of willful transmission of national defense information.
Seth Chambers, 35, a former United States Marine Corps. Intelligence Analyst, was employed as a civilian contractor and stationed in Iraq during the time frame alleged in the indictment.
The indictment goes on to state that, as part of his duties, he held a security clearance that authorised him to view classified material up to a top secret level and therefore had access to national defense and classified information.
According to court documents, on two separate occasions, the defendant willfully transmitted secret-level documents to two separate individuals who were not entitled or authorized to receive it.
The first transmission occurred on Dec. 10, 2022, when the defendant transmitted a white paper containing verbatim and near verbatim excerpts from classified U.S. government documents and was sent to an individual in Maryland. The second transmission of a document containing verbatim and near verbatim excerpts from classified U.S. government documents occurred on April 20, 2023, and was sent to an individual believed to be in the People’s Republic of China, according to officials.
If convicted, under federal statutes, Chambers is subject to a sentence of up to 10 years in federal prison without parole on each count.
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