Ex-FBI intel analyst sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to same documents charge as Trump

Former FBI Intelligence Analyst Kendra Kingsbury was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison after she pleaded guilty to two counts of retaining documents relating to national defense at her home, which are the same charges as 31 of the 37 federal counts that former President Donald Trump faces.

Kingsbury, 50, was sentenced Wednesday to 46 months behind bars followed by three years of supervised release after she pleaded guilty in October to two counts of unlawfully retaining national defense documents, the Justice Department said.

While Kingsbury worked for the FBI from 2004 to 2017, she "repeatedly removed from the FBI and retained in her personal residence (at that time in North Kansas City, Missouri) an abundance of sensitive government materials, including classified documents related to the national defense," officials said. 

She illegally retained approximately 386 classified documents at her home in total. Some of the documents detailed some of the U.S. government's most secretive and important methods of gathering intelligence, prosecutors said.

Trump faces 31 counts of illegally retaining classified documents, which were discovered at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Fla., during an FBI raid in August 2022, according to officials. More than 300 classified records were reportedly found in Trump's possession.

The former president also faces six additional charges, including conspiracy and falsifying records. Trump has denied any wrongdoing.

Not all of the documents Kingsbury had were from the FBI. The Justice Department said some of the classified materials were from "another government agency" and contained information about al Qaeda in Africa.

During the course of the investigation into Kingsbury, officials said they found that her phone records contained "a number of suspicious calls," including to numbers associated with the subjects of counterterrorism investigations. 

It is unclear why Kingsbury contacted the subjects or why they contacted her, and she declined to provide further information to investigators, who are still probing the case. 

Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.