Henry Frese Defense Intelligence Agency counter-terrorism analyst who is accused of leaking documents related to North Korea to CNBC’s Amanda Macias . Frese Arrested Macias Suspended!
Frese pictured on his Facebook page in 2015.
According to Fox News, Heavy and various other sources,
A criminal complaint filed on October 9 in Eastern District of Virginia federal court stated Frese, 30, had been “caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information for personal gain.” The complaint adds that the disclosure of the information, “could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security of the United States.”
The documents say that Frese was arrested when he showed up for work on the morning of October 9. The arrest came after he was indicted on the two charges by a grand jury.
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Neither reporter was named in the complaint but one was said to have been in a relationship with Frese and shared a home with him between August 2017 and August 2018. It’s alleged that Frese’s motivation was to further his own career. The reporter who was Frese’s girlfriend had passed the information along to another reporter at an affiliated news organization.
Frese, of Alexandria, Virginia, will appear in court on October 9. He was charged with two counts of willful transmission of national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it, the US. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement. Frese could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. He remains in federal custody pending his first court appearance. He has not yet hired an attorney.
During the investigation, federal agents intercepted Twitter messages and phone calls between Frese and the reporters. In a press release, the head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division John Demers said that Frese’s arrest was part of the department’s cracking down on leaking in government agencies. Demers said, “Leaks of classified information cause undeniable damage to our national security. Demers told the media that Frese is the sixth person to be charged in the last six years with leaking information.
“Henry Kyle Frese was entrusted with TOP SECRET information related to the national defense of our country,” U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Zachary Terwilliger said in a statement. “Frese allegedly violated that trust, the oath he swore to uphold, and is charged with engaging in dastardly and felonious conduct at the expense of our country. This indictment should serve as a clear reminder to all of those similarly entrusted with National Defense Information that unilaterally disclosing such information for personal gain, or that of others, is not selfless or heroic, it is criminal.”
Frese holds a top secret/sensitive compartmented information U.S. government security clearance, prosecutors said.
Shortly after the announcement of Frese’s arrest, CNBC announced that Macias had been suspended.
According to Documents, Frese Was ‘Down to Help’ as He Wanted to See Journalist 1 ‘Progress’
According to documents in the case, Frese said that he was “down” to help Journalist 2 if it helped Journalist 1 because he wanted to see Journalist 1 progress.” The charging documents say that Frese took provided the information to the reporters between mid-April 2018 and early-May 2018. The documents say that between August 2017 and August 2018, “it appears that [Frese and Journalist 1] where involved in a romantic relationship for some or all of that period of time.”
In total, the feds believe that journalist 1 is responsible for writing eight articles based on the information given to her from Frese. Officials have not said if the two journalists in question will be prosecuted for their role in the scandal.
According to his LinkedIn page, Frese was a senior consultant at BAE Systems in Reston, Virginia. BAE is a British-based multinational defense contractor. Frese says on his LinkedIn page that he is a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and of the Royal Military College of Canada, where he achieved a Masters of Public Administration, Security, Defense, and Management Policy. Frese is originally from Berwyn, Pennsylvania.
Frese began working at BAE Systems in 2016. Prior to that, he had worked at contractor Booz Allen Hamilton between June 2014 and August 2016.
In his bio section, Frese says that he has spent “5 years experience as a strategic analyst and management consultant.” Frese says that he has worked with the defense and intelligence community. Frese also says that he has worked as a policy analyst and intelligence analyst and covered “a diverse portfolio of topics.”
Frese Says He Is Now Focused on Research in Western Africa. Is he now? Interesting!
On his Twitter bio, Frese writes that he is “looking at the Sahel and West Africa. Used to look at Russia and NATO.” Sahel is defined as the area between the Sahara and South Sudan.
Frese has sent out multiple tweets that are critical of President Donald Trump. In March 2018, Frese mocked a potential meeting between Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. In April 2017 joked that former White Advisor Seb Gorka was leaving to “oversee the PhD program at Trump University. In October 2016, Frese complimented South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker saying, “This season of South Park is amazing. Absolutely ruthless against Trump.”
Frese Regularly Complimented Macias’ Reporting on His Twitter Page.
On the day of Frese’s arrest, Macias called Courtney Kube the “hardest working mom in the Pentagon press corps.”
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers added in a statement, “As laid out in today’s indictment, Frese was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information for personal gain. Frese betrayed the trust placed in him by the American people—a betrayal that risked harming the national security of this country. This is one of six unauthorized disclosure cases the Department has charged in just over two years, and we will continue in our efforts to punish and deter this behavior.”
“Mr. Frese allegedly disclosed highly classified national defense information, which puts our country and people at risk,” FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Counterintelligence Division Alan E. Kohler Jr. said in a statement. “He violated his oath to serve and protect the United States. The men and women of the FBI work hard every day to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution – we will not stand by while trusted government employees violate that trust in such an egregious way.”
The New York Post puts it this way. . .
The feds busted a Defense Intelligence Agency worker Wednesday for leaking classified national defense information to two journalists in 2018 and 2019 — one of whom he was shacking up with.
Henry Kyle Frese, 30, a counterintelligence analyst from Alexandria, Virginia, who had a Top Secret security clearance, was indicted Tuesday on two counts of willful transmission of national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it.
“Frese was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information for personal gain,” said John C. Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, who cited ex-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ vow to pursue leakers as the motivation for the probe.
According to USA Today,
Federal prosecutors say Frese, whose government security clearance allowed him access to top secret and sensitive information, researched multiple classified intelligence reports – some of which were unrelated to his job duties – and leaked information about a foreign country's weapons systems to a journalist. Prosecutors alleged that Frese, who worked as both a contractor and a full-time employee for DIA, was in a relationship with that journalist and sought to advance the reporter's career.
The unauthorized disclosures happened in 2018 and 2019. Prior to that, from August 2017 to August 2018, Frese and the reporter lived together, authorities say.
Court records say Frese accessed an intelligence report in about April to May 2018. Frese later received a message on Twitter from the reporter, who asked if he would be willing to talk to a second journalist – a colleague at an affiliated but different news outlet. Frese said he was "down" to help the second reporter.
In the same Twitter exchange with Frese, the reporter talked about a story she was working on. Shortly after, Frese searched a classified government computer system and searched for topics related to the story the reporter was working on, according to the affidavit. In the next hours, Frese talked to both journalists by phone. The reporter believed to be romantically involved with Frese published an article that contained information from the report Frese accessed, court records say.
Henry Kyle Frese
Henry Kyle Frese (Photo: Alexandria Sheriff's Office)
As recently as last month, Frese accessed two more classified intelligence reports, court records say. Around this time, the FBI had begun court-authorized surveillance of Frese's calls and found that he leaked national defense information from the reports to the second reporter, court records say.
The journalist linked romantically to Frese published at least eight articles containing classified information provided by the analyst, authorities say. Prosecutors asserted that Frese compromised the contents of at least five intelligence reports.
Citing a search of telephone records, prosecutors alleged that Frese’s phone listed 508 total calls and 37 text messages with the reporter he was dating. Those contacts ranged from March 1, 2018, through October 7, 2019. The same phone showed 22 calls and 150 text messages with the second reporter, from May 1, 2018, through October 7, 2019.
Frese was a contract employee for the DIA from January 2017 to February 2018. He was a full-time employee from February 2018 until this month. He worked at an information facility at the DIA workspace in Reston, Virginia, according to court records.
Frese's is one of six criminal cases the Justice Department has filed related to unauthorized disclosures in the last two years, the agency said. The department said it's been ramping up efforts to punish those who leak classified information, citing the prosecution of Reality Winner, a former Air Force translator who was sentenced to more than five years in prison in 2018 for leaking a top-secret report on Russian hacking.
"This case is pretty clear," Terwilliger told reporters Wednesday, asserting that Frese's alleged motives were "self-centered" and "selfish" efforts to advance the career of a girlfriend.
"We were not targeting a journalist," the prosecutor said. "We were targeting a person suspected of leaking top-secret information."
Terwilliger said the case remains focused on the analyst and that there were no apparent plans to charge the journalists.
Journalists are expected to adhere to ethical standards that call for them to avoid conflicts of interest, such as being involved in political campaigns or having romantic relationships with sources.
Frese is expected to make his first court appearance Thursday. It was not immediately clear if he has an attorney.
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