“The Defendant has held a security clearance for over 25 years and the Government cannot ensure the safety of the country and US military personnel without detention,” prosecutors wrote in a Jan. 13 filing. As a systems engineer at a government contractor in Maryland, Perez-Lugones holds a top-secret security clearance and allegedly printed out screenshots of “a classified intelligence report related to a foreign country” on Oct. 28, 2025, an FBI special agent wrote in an affidavit appended to the complaint. 5 The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post journalist on Wednesday in connection with a case involving the unlawful retention of classified national defense information, the outlet reported.
Author: Josh Christenson
Published at: 2026-01-15 21:27:25
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