Overview

• David Slater was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Lincoln to 70 months in prison, fined $25,000, and ordered to one year of supervised release with credit for time served.
• Slater pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to disclose national defense information, and two other counts were dismissed under the plea agreement.
• Court filings say he worked at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base with a top-secret clearance from August 2021 to about April 2022.
• Between February and April 2022, he transmitted classified information from war briefings through a foreign dating site’s messaging platform about military targets and Russian capabilities.
• The recipient has not been publicly identified, and authorities have not said whether the person was linked to any foreign government, though messages used terms like “my secret informant love.”