‘My Secret Informant Love’: Ex-Army Officer Leaked Russia-Ukraine War Secrets on Dating Site

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A retired Army officer who worked as a civilian for the Air Force is heading to prison after he conspired to share classified information on a foreign online dating platform. According to the Associated Press , David Slater has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison in U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Wednesday. He was arrested in March 2024 and pleaded guilty in July. According to court documents, Slater, after retiring as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army, worked in a