Thompson faced a maximum sentence of up to life imprisonment. Mariam Taha Thompson was charged in May 2020 in federal court with “transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to a foreign national," who she believed would provide the information to Lebanese-based Hezbollah, a foreign terrorist organization tied to Iran.Ĭourt records show Thompson signed an extensive statement of facts in late January admitting to the covert plot, and she pleaded guilty in March. Thompson most definitely mixed up her priorities and will likely serve the rest of her now-disgraced life in federal prison with plenty of time to consider all the ways she harmed America.A female linguist who worked for the Pentagon in Iraq was sentenced to 23 years behind bars for giving classified information to a Hezbollah-tied foreign national. I hate to tell Thompson, but neither old age nor love is grounds or justification for treason or espionage. I just wanted to have someone to love me in my old age, and because I was desperate for that love I forgot who I was for a short period of time.” “Your honor, I love this country, and I love our soldiers… I did not set out to hurt them or do damage to our national security.
Mariam Thompson Did It all for “LOVE”Īnd, in the end, what did Thompson herself have to say about her actions? In her courtroom statement for leniency during her sentencing, Thompson said: targets have now been revealed and the eventual fallout from her disclosing American tactics and procedures has yet to be seen. At least eight clandestine American assets (and their families) are now at a significantly greater risk of death because of her actions. “The defendant’s decision to aid a foreign terrorist organization was a betrayal that endangered the lives of the very American men and women on the battlefield who had served beside her for more than a decade.” He continued, “Let today’s sentence serve notice that there are serious consequences for anyone who betrays this country by compromising national defense information.”īy the time Thompson was arrested, she had already put American lives in the direct crosshairs of danger. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Channing D. The DoJ release continued, “As part of her March 26 guilty plea, Thompson admitted that she believed that the classified national defense information that she was passing to a Lebanese national would be provided to Lebanese Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization.” Utter BetrayalĪcting U.S. Thompson intended and had reason to believe that this classified national defense information would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of Lebanese Hezbollah.” targets and multiple tactics, techniques and procedures. 27, 2020, Thompson had used her access to classified national defense information to provide her co-conspirator with the identities of at least eight clandestine human assets at least 10 U.S. “When she was arrested by the FBI on Feb.
(Getty Images)Īccording to the Department of Justice’s press release regarding her case:
Thompson provided him the classified information. airstrike that killed terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani in January 2020, he asked her for information on who was behind the strike.
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