Top-secret CIA contractor accused of handing girlfriend 'most closely held secrets'

A government contractor with top-secret access is facing federal charges after allegedly feeding classified intelligence to someone he was dating.The FBI arrested Ian Brinksman, a Washington resident who did contract work for the CIA, on Friday after searching his home, the Justice Department announced. Prosecutors allege he passed national defense information to a romantic partner who runs a newsletter on Substack."As alleged, Brinksman reached far outside his own duties to obtain some of our Nation's most closely held secrets and handed them to a romantic partner he knew intended to publish them," Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg, who leads the department's National Security Division, said in a statement. "That is not carelessness. It is a betrayal of his oath."Brinksman went to work for an unnamed U.S. government agency in 2020 and moved in 2022 to a job as a systems integration developer at a private contractor serving that same agency,...