But it suggests he will not plead guilty to aiding enemies of the US (identified by prosecutors as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), violating federal espionage and computer laws - charges for which he could face life in prison if found guilty.
Since then, he admitted to sending the material WikiLeaks and pleaded guilty to reduced charges on nine counts that alleged violations of federal espionage and computer fraud laws, and to one count alleging violation of a military regulation prohibiting wrongful storage of classified information.
That was one of the reasons Mr. Stephens says Best Buy objected when "Chuck, " an NBC comedy about a computer savant who becomes entangled in espionage, wanted to use Geek Squad as its setting.
You didn't think all of those recent attempts to outlaw encryption and put software backdoors onto computer chips was strictly to fight international espionage, did you?
In a brief statement, Scotland Yard said that Tuesday's arrest was under a specific sub-strand of the investigation, Operation Kalmyk, which has been looking at computer hacking offences in relation to suspected business espionage.
Drake pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of exceeding his authorized use of an agency computer after authorities dropped the most serious charges -- including some under the Espionage Act -- against him.
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The documents included original letters initialled by the Pope indicating that he had read them personally, many photocopies, flash sticks and computer disks, and the results of thousands of internet searches on such varied subjects as Freemasonry, espionage, secret agents, yoga and Buddhism.
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Among other things, the principles established by his scholarship enabled espionage agencies to make their secret codes even more impenetrable and enhanced the security and accuracy of computer data transmission.
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