US Army soldier charged with attempting to share sensitive data on US tanks with Russia

Federal prosecutors allege that Taylor Adam Lee, who is an active-duty service member stationed at Fort Bliss and possesses a very high, top-secret clearance, offered assistance to Russia and sent technical information about the M1A2 Abrams tank online in June.

Roman Rozhavsky, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, said in a statement Wednesday that Lee provided the information to the individual he believed worked for Russian intelligence in exchange for Russian citizenship.

The really stupid thing about this is that I seriously doubt that there's anything significant that Russia wants and doesn't have on the M1A2 in 2025. I mean, the tanks are all over the place. ISIL captured some. Russia has captured some in Ukraine, though I dunno if those were all M1A1s --- I remember that Ukraine asked for M1A1s instead of M1A2s because they'd get them sooner. A ton of people have access to them. Like, you're trying to give away information that probably has no value to Russia.

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and it wasn’t on the War Thunder forums this time …
Federal prosecutors allege that Taylor Adam Lee, who is an active-duty service member stationed at Fort Bliss and possesses a very high, top-secret clearance, offered assistance to Russia and sent technical information about the M1A2 Abrams tank online in June.
Roman Rozhavsky, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, said in a statement Wednesday that Lee provided the information to the individual he believed worked for Russian intelligence in exchange for Russian citizenship.
The really stupid thing about this is that I seriously doubt that there's anything significant that Russia wants and doesn't have on the M1A2 in 2025. I mean, the tanks are all over the place. ISIL captured some. Russia has captured some in Ukraine, though I dunno if those were all M1A1s --- I remember that Ukraine asked for M1A1s instead of M1A2s because they'd get them sooner. A ton of people have access to them. Like, you're trying to give away information that probably has no value to Russia.
Hey if the CIC can sell military Info why can't he?
So this isn't quite treason because the US isn't at war directly?
Still seems pretty close though