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Omaha Steve

(107,322 posts)
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 07:38 AM Friday

Former StratCom worker sentenced, shared classified Russia-Ukraine war info on dating site

Source: Nebraska Examiner

By: Zach Wendling - October 9, 2025 7:02 pm

LINCOLN — A federal judge sentenced a former civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday to nearly six years in federal prison on one felony count of conspiring to transmit classified national defense information via a foreign online dating platform in 2022 regarding the Russia-Ukraine war.

U.S. District Judge Brian Buescher sentenced David Franklin Slater of Auburn to 70 months in prison and a year of supervised release. Slater pleaded guilty in July; he was 64 at that time. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed two other charges against Slater of willful transmission of national defense information. Buescher also assessed a $25,000 fine, with interest, against Slater. Slater faced up to 10 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine on the top charge.

According to court records, Slater worked at U.S. Strategic Command in Sarpy County between August 2021 and April 2022. StratCom is essentially the nation’s command and control center for nuclear and conventional strategic deterrence against attacks on the nation and its allies. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Prosecutors said Slater, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, attended classified StratCom briefings on the Russia-led war between February and April 2022. Slater had “top secret” security clearance. Prosecutors accused him of sharing information up to “secret,” a level below top secret.

Shown is the StratCom Gate at Offutt Air Force Base. (Courtesy of Offutt Air Force Base)


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Former StratCom worker sentenced, shared classified Russia-Ukraine war info on dating site (Original Post) Omaha Steve Friday OP
He should've run for President. He'd be a free man with unlimited powers over our Country, if he'd won. Buddyzbuddy Friday #1
This message was self-deleted by its author BlueKota Friday #2
Has Slater been checked for early onset dementia? Random Boomer Friday #3
6 years but the guy with a ton of classified documents moniss Friday #4
Posted classified info on a dating site.... Bayard Friday #5

Buddyzbuddy

(1,677 posts)
1. He should've run for President. He'd be a free man with unlimited powers over our Country, if he'd won.
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 08:30 AM
Friday

Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Random Boomer

(4,368 posts)
3. Has Slater been checked for early onset dementia?
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 10:32 AM
Friday

Because spilling secrets to some random internet connection sounds like his brain stopped working right.

moniss

(8,157 posts)
4. 6 years but the guy with a ton of classified documents
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 10:46 AM
Friday

and many of them "missing" gets nothing.

Bayard

(27,377 posts)
5. Posted classified info on a dating site....
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 01:41 PM
Friday

Does that make a man sexier? I guess trump thinks so.

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