A CIA analyst charged with leaking high secret particulars forward of a deliberate Israeli assault on Iran earlier this 12 months will stay jailed pending trial, a choose ordered Wednesday.

The ruling by U.S. District Decide Patricia Tolliver Giles overrules a Justice of the Peace who mentioned final week that Asif Rahman, 34, of Vienna, Virginia, could possibly be free on restrictions whereas he awaits trial on expenses of revealing nationwide protection info.

The battle over Rahman’s detention revealed extra particulars concerning the authorities’s investigation of the leak and the analyst who allegedly disclosed the categorised paperwork in October on the Telegram messaging app.

At Wednesday’s detention listening to, prosecutor Troy Edwards mentioned Rahman was motivated by ideology, although he didn’t focus on what that ideology is likely to be.

The truth is, he mentioned the conclusion that Rahman’s motive was ideological was primarily technique of elimination, noting that Rahman comes from a rich household and has entry to a multimillion-dollar household belief, and subsequently would not have a monetary incentive.

Edwards additionally highlighted eight pages of notes discovered on Rahman when he was arrested final month in Cambodia, the place he labored on the U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh. These notes included two separate “to-do” lists, certainly one of which was largely blocks of apparently encrypted textual content together with an unencrypted sentence pertaining to U.S. missile capabilities. Edwards mentioned investigators haven’t but been capable of decipher the encryption.

A separate, unencrypted to-do checklist included classes labeled “contingencies” and “run,” Edwards mentioned.

Official courtroom paperwork are imprecise about what was leaked, however particulars mentioned in open courtroom clarify that it references an October disclosure of paperwork from the Nationwide Geospatial-Intelligence Company and Nationwide Safety Company noting that Israel was transferring army property into place to conduct a army strike on Iran after Iran launched its personal missile assault on Israel on Oct. 1.

Israel ended up finishing up an assault on Iran’s air protection programs and missile manufacturing services in late October.

In courtroom papers, the federal government mentioned the leak triggered Israel to delay its assault plans. Edwards mentioned the unstable nature of the Center East makes the leak exceptionally harmful.

“It’s laborious to overstate what different circumstances current graver dangers of hazard to human life than unilaterally deciding to transmitting info associated to plans for kinetic army motion between two international locations,” prosecutors wrote in courtroom papers.

Rahman’s lawyer, Amy Jeffress, cited nameless sources in information articles who’ve downplayed the leak’s significance.

Jeffress mentioned the to-do checklist included the phrase “run” as a result of Rahman is an avid jogger. She additionally mentioned it is uncommon for defendants going through comparable expenses to be detained pending trial.

Rahman was born in California and moved along with his household when he was a baby to Cincinnati, the place he was a highschool valedictorian, based on courtroom papers submitted by his lawyer. He went to Yale College and graduated in three years. He and his spouse now dwell within the D.C. metro space, alongside along with his mother and father.

His father, Muhit Rahman, who was ready to function his son’s custodian pretrial if he had been launched, attended Wednesday’s listening to together with quite a few relations and pals in help.

Rahman made his preliminary courtroom look final month in Guam.

Jeffress mentioned after Wednesday’s listening to that she intends to enchantment the detention order.