The FBI arrested Nathan Vilas Laatsch (28), a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) employee for attempting to transmit classified information to a friendly foreign government. Laatsch, who held a TS/SCI clearance, said that he had "completed intelligence products, some unprocessed intelligence, and other assorted classified documentation" that he wanted to send. He said his reasoning for the decision was because he did not align with the current Trumpf junta's policies. The FBI was subsequently tipped off and made contact with Laatsch under the guise of the aforementioned foreign government. Laatsch would end up transcribing and smuggling out classified products on two occasions to who he thought was an official of the friendly foreign government, and was arrested after the second exchange. A criminal complaint is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
This is terrible. Nathan Vilas Laatsch worked ten years at Publix before finally getting his break with a position at DIA, only to be disgusted by the Trumpf junta, motivating him to sell secrets. This young man threw his life away. Decades ago DIA was a fine place to work, but who knows how toxic the environment is now under the white supremacist Trumpf junta?
Yeah, this has, obviously, been the main story of the local news here in CT.
None of the victims died. ...
From the reporting I have heard, one has a spinal injury, and it is hoped that they will not be paralyzed. The others have been reported to be fully recoverable.
Local reporting ...
Arrest warrant sheds light on investigation into mass shooting at Waterbury mall
www.wfsb.com
... WATERBURY, Conn. (WFSB) - More information is being released on the suspected Brass Mill Center shooter Tajuan Washington.
Today is his 20th birthday. He is spending it in jail after being accused of shooting 5 people inside the mall on Tuesday.
A 42 page arrest warrant has shed light on the investigation.
Police have interviewed several witnesses and multiple victims.
Washington refused to talk to investigators.
One witness told officers, Washington was just shooting into the crowd of girls.'
Police also spoke to a 15-year-old girl who was with Washington during the shooting.
She claims a group of people, mostly women, kept staring at them before following them to a store.
She said, they were telling us to come outside, that they had something for us ... they were going to shoot us.'
Seconds later Washington allegedly fired seven shots. One man and four women were hit by the gunfire.
Washington turned himself in to the police. After searching his home officers found 5 different calibers of ammunition, a 22 caliber rifle, an AK-style rifle and the clothes Washington wore during the shooting.
Police claim they have surveillance video of Washington from inside the mall.
Luckily, the 5 victims survived. ...
