NSA contractor’s arrest likely to be damaging for US

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is facing another potentially embarrassing discovery of the leak of top secret documents and intelligence from a former NSA

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is facing another potentially embarrassing discovery of the leak of top secret documents and intelligence from a former NSA contractor whose arrest in August was disclosed in court filings on Wednesday.

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Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, was working as a contractor with the defence department at the time of his arrest, for Booze Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm which is still reeling from the fallout from the arrest of its earlier employee Edward Snowden.

Though the exact damage caused by Martin is not known yet, his arrest in itself will be damaging for the Obama administration.

FBI found thousands of pages of documents, and dozens of computers and electronic devices from his house in Maryland, a state abutting Washington DC that is home to the National Security Agency.