So we are recording on Friday, September 2nd at just about 11 a.m.

And what are we going to talk about this time?

Well, let's start out with the story.

In August of 2016, FBI agents searched the home of a cybersecurity contractor working for the National Security Agency.

A contractor had a high level security clearance, and that meant he had access to some of the

country's most sensitive secrets and the FBI agents searched the contractors

house shed and garage.

And they found a lot of highly sensitive material.

In fact, they found terabytes of data on computer hard drives

and thousands of paper documents.

They were piled up in his ordinary house

in suburban Maryland.

And in the end, the contractor, whose name was Hal Martin,

negotiated a plea deal in 2018. He agreed to plead guilty to just one criminal

count and the basis for that plea was just one top secret document.

In fact, the document was so secret,

it's only vaguely described in the public filing

by the government as a 2014 NSA leadership briefing.

Now federal prosecutors were worried that Martin might have sold or shared that information

with foreign governments or just criminals, and Martin's own lawyer said that his client was just a

compulsive hoarder couldn't help it but it really didn't matter Martin's

motivations for holding on to the government's secrets were irrelevant.

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