A former FBI agent has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for leaking secret information about a U.S. operation in Yemen that was published in an Associated Press report. The AP story sparked the mass collection of reporters’ phone records by the Obama administration in what the outlet’s president called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.” The leaker, Donald Sachtleben, was also sentenced to an additional eight years in prison for unrelated child pornography charges.
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