Retired Lt. Col. Robert Birchum admitted to “willfully” keeping top secret documents on a thumb drive and computer in his Tampa, Fla. home, a federal plea agreement reveals.
WASHINGTON – An ex-Air Force intelligence officer admitted to “willfully” keeping top secret documents on a thumb drive and computer in his Tampa, Fla. home, a federal plea agreement signed last week reveals.
Birchum retired in July 2018 after 32 years in the military, during which he “worked in various jobs in intelligence,” including as “chief of combat intelligence for a certain Air Force group,” according to his plea. He also worked with classified information at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the US Special Operations Command.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Birchum pleaded guilty to keeping top secret documents in a thumb drive and on a computer in his home.“All I know is there’s a problem when you have two special counsels investigating roughly the same thing supposedly, then there’s a problem and we need to fix the problem, if at all possible,” Comer told the National Press Club.
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