A civilian engineer for the Defense Department who printed and took home at least 155 pages of highly classified material was arrested at his Virginia home Friday morning as he was waiting for his Uber to the airport, the Washington Post reports, and he’ll face charges for mishandling the information.
A dual citizen of Turkey and the US, Gokhan Gun was waiting for his ride to the airport to start a Mexican vacation when the FBI raided his home and arrested him, finding the documents not in a bathroom or on stage, but stacked on his dining room table and in a backpack. As an engineer with a DoD contractor, Gun was allowed to access the information at work, but could not print it or remove it.
Unable to claim presidential immunity or move his case to a Florida district court, Gun is currently facing one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified information, with other charges pending. Gun apparently told investigators that the documents were no longer classified, so it was okay for him to have them–a defense that sounds strangely familiar.