Joseph Daniel Schmidt (U.S. Army) A former Army intelligence sergeant once trusted with America’s most sensitive military secrets will serve only four years in prison after trying to pass top-secret information to the Chinese government, all because a federal judge decided to show leniency over his mental health. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, was once stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington as part of the 109th Military Intelligence Battalion. He held Top Secret clearance and had access to defense data so sensitive it could compromise national security if exposed. But according to the Department of Justice, after leaving the Army in 2020, Schmidt reached out directly to the Chinese Consulate in Turkey and later emailed Chinese security services offering to sell national defense information. In…
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