Hal Martin’s defense says prosecutors have yet to provide essential evidence
Attorneys for Harold T. Martin III, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor accused of perhaps the largest theft of government secrets in American history, said in a court filing that government prosecutors have not allowed access to evidence necessary to mount a sufficient defense. Public defenders, in a document made public Tuesday, renewed their request in a Maryland federal court for an order requiring prosecutors to produce copies of the material confiscated from Martin in 2016. The defense seeks duplicates of the hard drives of the seized devices as well as copies of whatever computers the NSA used to create a database of the information that it seized. The request was made Nov. 13, 2018. The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland had ordered the defense on Aug. 17, 2018 to have “meaningful access” to the material in question, according to the filing. The defense says in the new filing the […]
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