Security News > 2021 > May > FBI Analyst Indicted for Theft of Osama bin Laden Threat Intel

An FBI analyst with top-secret security clearance illegally squirreled away national-security documents related to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, cybersecurity and more in her home for years, the feds say.

Kendra Kingsbury, who was working in the FBI's Kansas City Division until being put on leave in December 2017, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly routinely removing numerous documents from their safekeeping at the office, over and over during the period between June 2004 to Dec. 15, 2017.

"The defendant, who's well trained in handling classified information, put her country's sensitive secrets at risk. The FBI will go to great lengths to investigate individuals who put their own interests above U.S. national security, including when the individual is an FBI employee," according to the indictment.

There are documents relating to sensitive human source operations in national security investigations, intelligence gaps regarding hostile foreign intelligence services and terrorist organizations, and the technical capabilities of the FBI against counterintelligence and counterterrorism targets," according to the indictment.

The second count deals with efforts to collect intelligence on terrorist groups, including information about al-Qaeda members on the African continent and a suspected associate of bin Laden.

"As an intelligence analyst for the FBI, the defendant was entrusted with access to sensitive government materials," he said.

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