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A former National Security Agency ( NSA ) employee may face life in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to sell US defense secrets to R US sia in exchange for crypto .  31-year-old Jareh Sebastian Dalke leaked four top secret files and excerpts of three more while working as an information systems security designer for the NSA.  Dalke shared these files with an FBI online covert employee (OCE) whom he believed was a Russian Federation agent. Last week’s plea agreement says he shared the top secret documents with the intent to “injure the United States and to benefit [Russia].”  Dalke requested $85,000 in crypto for the documents and promised he could supply more in the future. For the three excerpts, the OCE sent Dalke $16,499 in undisclosed crypto. Protos reported last year that the crypto was likely Monero. The crypto was received through his Kraken account. Then he converted some of it into US dollars before sending the funds to a Colorado bank in his name. ...

At a glance The Defense team for Sam Bankman-Fried has repeatedly walked into hilarious mistakes . Judge Lewis Kaplan has constantly reprimanded Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell for wasting time . Is there a larger strategy behind what seems like mere ineptitude? Sam Bankman-Fried’s white-shoe lawyers have a very hard job. They also seem to be doing it quite poorly. Indeed, at their lowest moments, Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell are like the Laurel and Hardy of bad lawyering. In the third week of trial, Bankman-Fried’s defense team has yet to establish any real counter-narrative to the prosecution’s case — but worse, they’ve made repeated, serio US missteps that actually seemed more likely to harm SBF in the eyes of the jury than to help him . One sterling example came on Thursday, October 12, as Cohen was cross-examining former BlockFi CEO Zac Prince about the due diligence process at the now-collapsed crypto lender. Cohen and Prince were reviewing a report f...