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She admitted as part of a deal that she shared the names of U.S. government assets with a Lebanese man with connections to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant Attorney General John Demers, the Justice Department\u2019s top national security official, said in a statement that the actions represented \u201ca disgraceful personal and professional betrayal of country and colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sentencing was scheduled for June 23. A lawyer for Thompson, who faces up to life in prison, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thompson began communicating with the man, whom she never met in person, in 2017 after being connected via social media by a family member, and she ultimately developed a romantic interest in him, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a January 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2020\/01\/03\/iran-threatens-revenge-following-death-of-qasem-soleimani-as-iraq-government-condemns-assassination\/\" target=_blank>U.S. strike that killed Iran\u2019s top general<\/a>, Qassem Soleimani, the Lebanese man \u2014 who is not named in court papers \u2014 asked Thompson to provide \u201cthem\u201d with information about the human assets that had helped the U.S. target Soleimani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators say Thompson accessed dozens of files about human sources, including their names, photographs, background information and operational cables that described the information they had gathered. 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