A former CIA analyst, Asif William Rahman, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for unlawfully transmitting Top Secret Information. According to the United States Department of Justice, Rahman, who was 34 years old at the time, received the sentence for providing access to sensitive security clearance information to unauthorized viewers.
Rahman had access to Top Secret security clearance information and Sensitive Compartmented Information before he was arrested. On October 17, 2024, he accessed and printed two Top Secret documents detailing a potential military strike by a U.S. ally on an adversarial country. These documents outlined Israel’s preparations for a possible strike on Iran, including its strategic moves.
The documents were photographed by Rahman and sent to an unauthorized individual through the Telegram messaging app. The recipient subsequently uploaded the documents to social media, significantly compromising the security of classified information. The FBI highlighted that Rahman deleted information from his workspace the same day he printed out the documents, according to the Justice Department.
Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division stated in a news release that Rahman will have to face the consequences for placing American lives and national security at risk. Rozhavsky issued a warning to all clearance holders, emphasizing the FBI’s commitment to finding and bringing to justice anyone who endangers the nation by leaking sensitive information without authorization.
Rahman was indicted by a grand jury on November 7, 2024, and was arrested in Cambodia on November 12, 2024, while he was traveling to work. He later pleaded guilty to the charges. John Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, stated that the DOJ will protect American people, and the case is a demonstration of that commitment.
“For months, this defendant betrayed the American people and the oaths he took upon entering his office by leaking some of our Nation’s most closely held secrets,” said Eisenberg.
Fox News Digital’s Chris Pondolfo and Jake Gibson contributed to this story.