Navy Officer To Serve 6 Years for Sharing Military Secrets

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Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin, 40, also will be dismissed from the Navy under the sentence issued late Friday by military judge Cmdr. Robert Monahan, who deliberated for four hours.

Monahan sentenced Lin to nine years, but under a pretrial agreement he will serve six, receive credit for the more than 600 days he was held before trial and have three years suspended.

When Lin joined the U.S. Navy in 1999, his father refused to talk with him for three years.

Lin's most serious missteps dealt with his mishandling of classified information and his sharing of it with two women.

Lin, who served on the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2009 and 2010, said he also shared classified information with "Wu," who he believed was a Taiwanese immigrant, in August and September 2015 to impress her and let her know that U.S. military service was honorable.

Luken asked for 12 years, saying Lin still had knowledge of current classified information and a demonstrated "Inclination to talk."

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