A longtime FBI agent has been charged with unlawfully taking and disclosing classified FBI files, according to court records reviewed by CBS News. Johnathan Buma, who specialized in national security and terror cases, has been released on $100,000 bond, with orders to appear in court in Los Angeles.
Buma was arrested as he boarded an international flight at JFK airport in New York, according to charging documents. The Justice Department’s filings allege Buma printed of caches of FBI records from an internal agency network. Nearly 130 files might have been compromised, according to an FBI investigators. The government argues the records were clearly marked as confidential or secure and were copied by Buma in the hours before he left his job in the bureau in October 2023.
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Source: CBS News
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