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Ex-Army Sergeant Sentenced to 4 Years for Offering Secrets to China

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U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, is pictured in Seattle on Nov. 8, 2019. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty ImagesA federal judge sentenced a former Army intelligence sergeant to 4 years in prison on Tuesday for offering national defense secrets to China. Sergeant Joseph Daniel Schmidt, who had top secret clearance, served in western Washington at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where he worked in military intelligence.According to court documents, he served in the Army from January 2015 to January 2020. Schmidt was discharged after a mental health episode in late 2019.

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