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An ex-FBI agent has agreed to plead guilty to leaking information to a reporter about an al-Qaeda bomb plot and to child pornography charges. Donald Sachtleben, 55, is to be sentenced to 12 years in prison. The May 2017 disclosures jeopardised an international intelligence operation and put lives at risk, officials said. Investigators identified him after seizing phone records of the Associated Press, which published an article on the Yemen-based al-Qaeda plot. "This unauthorized and unjustifiable disclosure severely jeopardized national security and put lives at risk," Deputy Attorney General James Cole said in a statement. | 
