Defence Forces investigate alleged breach within Naval Service

Steyr

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1122/defence.html

Defence Forces investigate alleged breach

The Defence Forces have confirmed that a member of the Naval Service has been moved from his post and is the subject of an investigation into the alleged passing of sensitive information to civilians without authority.
It is understood the alleged breach concerns information about the movement of naval patrol vessels.
Naval Command became aware of the alleged disclosures last summer during regularly conducted security checks.
An investigation was carried out by Military Police, during which the person under investigation was interviewed.
The investigation concluded at the end of last summer and a file has subsequently been sent to the Director of Military Prosecutions.
He must decide whether or not to bring a case against the individual concerned under the Defence Acts.
In the meantime, the person against whom the allegations have been made continues to serve, but has been removed from the post where the sensitive information was being handled.
Gardaí have also been made aware of the investigation and are participating in it.
The alleged information breach is being treated as extremely serious, because it may have concerned operations by gardaí, the naval service and Revenue Customs and Excise to combat the smuggling of drugs, weapons and other contraband in and out of the country.

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Oh dear.

Manic Moran

I'm safe.

NTM

Dub13

Thats a very serious breach of security if its true.

OS119

That would depend if the information was 'in six weeks time the vessels will all be more than 100 miles from x location for a 48hr window' which is potentially very useful to drugs/arms smugglers, or 'yeah, there all tied up right now' which any fcukwit with eyes and the ability to tie their own shoelaces would know and isn't therefore worthy of classification.

if its the latter its probably that 'great leaders' don't like the tone of conversations on a well-known internet forum and have decided to both make an example and to frighten the others into being more 'constructive' and 'helpful' in their comments...

Irish_Army01

This is an ongoing investigation..I'll kindly ask one of the Mods to consider closing this thread.. PM me if you wish.

Manic Moran

Fair point, though neither names nor the nature of the materials leaked are being discussed.

As long as nothing not in the public domain is mentioned, I'm reluctant to lock threads. Standard levels of OpSec should be applied in all threads, not merely ones about investigations.

NTM

slapper

i know about this story but for obivious reason i wont comment and more than this



wat a fecking idiot for wat he done