State Department adviser charged with illegally retaining classified records
State Department adviser charged with illegally retaining classified records Senior State Department Adviser Arrested Over Retention of Classified Documents Washington, D.C. — A senior adviser at the U.S. State Department and noted expert on Indian and South Asian affairs, Ashley J. Tellis , has been charged by federal prosecutors with illegally retaining classified national defense information. The charges, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, allege that Tellis printed, transported, and stored more than 1,000 pages of highly sensitive documents—some marked Top Secret —at his private residence. ( AP News ) Prosecutors say the documents include materials related to U.S. military aircraft capabilities, and that surveillance footage captured Tellis carrying a briefcase in and out of government facilities while in possession of sensitive papers. ( AP News ) The FBI, upon executing a search warrant at his home in Vienna, Virginia, reportedly located the...