The National Security Agency in Ft. Meade, Maryland. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)

A government contractor with top-secret clearance was arrested in late August and criminally charged with “unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor,” according to the Department of Justice.

The New York Times reported that the worker was a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor working on behalf of the National Security Agency.

“I can’t think of any prosecutions that have had at least the speculation of the large scale insider threat that The New York Times appears to be saying,” Susan Hennessey, the managing editor of Lawfare and a former attorney at the Office of General Counsel at the NSA, told Ars.