Former US National Security official jailed for keeping classified information

A former U.S. National Security Agency employee was sentenced on Tuesday to 5-1/2 years in prison for possessing highly classified information at his home, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, of Ellicott City, Maryland, removed documents that contained classified national defense information and kept them at his home without authorization, the department said.