{"id":141259,"date":"2026-11-02T02:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/former-u-s-government-contractor-arrested-for-allegedly-leaking-national-defense-information-and-stealing-night-vision-goggles\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T02:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:14:06","slug":"former-u-s-government-contractor-arrested-for-allegedly-leaking-national-defense-information-and-stealing-night-vision-goggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/former-u-s-government-contractor-arrested-for-allegedly-leaking-national-defense-information-and-stealing-night-vision-goggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Government Contractor Arrested for Allegedly Leaking National Defense Information and Stealing Night Vision Goggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI National Press Releases<\/p>\n<p>James Thomas Ashbacher, 37, of Spring Lake, North Carolina, a former U.S. government contractor, was arrested for allegedly leaking national defense information by posting the information on a popular social media site, unlawfully retaining other national defense information at his residence, and stealing night vision goggles from the U.S. Army\u2019s Special Operations Command.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/press-releases\/former-us-government-contractor-arrested-for-allegedly-leaking-national-defense-information-and-stealing-night-vision-goggles\" rel=\"noopener\">Original FBI press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>James Thomas Ashbacher, 37, of Spring Lake, North Carolina, a former U.S. government contractor, was arrested for allegedly leaking national defense information by posting the information on a popular social media site, unlawfully retaining other national defense information at his residence, and stealing night vision goggles from the U.S. Army\u2019s Special Operations Command.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_brbnews_content_mode":"","_brbnews_source_urls":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","category-novosti-ssha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightonbeachnews.com\/rus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}