Retired US Army officer sentenced to nearly 6 years for sharing classified info on dating site

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A retired Army officer who worked as a civilian for the Air Force has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for conspiring to transmit classified information about Russia’s war with Ukraine on a foreign online dating platform. David Slater was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Lincoln to 70 months in prison. Slater, who was 64 when he pleaded guilty in July to a count of conspiracy to disclose national defense information, was also fined $25,000 and