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Documents: Criminal Information and Plea Agreement in NSA Employee Willful Retention Case

Vanessa Sauter
Monday, December 4, 2017, 2:51 PM

Former NSA Tailored Access Operations (TAO) developer Nghia Hoang Pho pleaded guilty on Friday to willful retention of national defense information. Pho faces a maximum of ten years in prison for removing and retaining classified U.S. government documents in his home from 2010 to March 2015. You can read the the criminal information and plea agreement here.

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Former NSA Tailored Access Operations (TAO) developer Nghia Hoang Pho pleaded guilty on Friday to willful retention of national defense information. Pho faces a maximum of ten years in prison for removing and retaining classified U.S. government documents in his home from 2010 to March 2015. You can read the the criminal information and plea agreement here.

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Plea Agreement:


Vanessa Sauter is a program associate in the Cybersecurity & Technology Program at the Aspen Institute. She was previously an associate editor at Lawfare and received her bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 2016.

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