NSA Leaks: How Could This Happen Again?

The filing of a criminal complaint by the U.S. government against a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor has once again raised the harrowing possibility that for the second time in three years, an insider has allegedly stolen highly classified and damaging secret information.

The FBI secretly arrested Harold T. Martin, a contractor with Booz Allen, in August and is investigating whether he stole a highly classified computer code, which had been developed to hack into foreign government’s networks. The arrest is also an embarrassment for Booz Allen, which had also hired NSA leaker, Edward Snowden.

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