**MH370x Breaking Update**
The Evidence that Agent 370 (MH370 videos leaker) is Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin
Preface: I searched every person charged with espionage until I came across Edward Lin. He checks every box. Below are excerpts from all the articles I could find on the case online;
Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin, a naval flight officer with experience in signals intelligence (SIGINT) aboard U.S. Navy Lockheed Martin EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance aircraft, is facing several charges, including espionage.
Lin has been held in pre-trial confinement of the service since his arrest on Sept. 11, 2015.
Lin, a Taiwanese-American who has been an U.S. citizen for nearly two decades, remains locked up in the Chesapeake Brig, charged with espionage and attempted espionage, charges that could result in a life sentence.
Lin’s case represents the first major incident of espionage by an active duty member of the U.S. Navy since the end of the Cold War.
A heavily redacted three-page charge sheet released by the Navy states that the officer faces two specifications of espionage and three specifications of attempted espionage. He is accused of communicating secret information “with intent or reason to believe it would be used to the advantage of a foreign nation,”
The accusations suggest that he may have passed on highly sensitive information about how the United States and its surveillance aircraft gather and process signals intelligence.
There's very little evidence of any espionage by Lin and there is growing doubt that the government can prove that Lin was a spy
Lin held a high level of clearance, thanks to his work as a signals-intelligence specialist on some of the Navy's most sensitive intelligence-gathering aircraft, according to the original report from the US Naval Institute. He previously worked as a department head for a Special Projects Patrol Squadron based out of Hawaii, which flew highly specialized signals-intelligence aircraft.
Lin had a security clearance higher than Top Secret and had access to some of the Navy's most sensitive secrets. At the time of his arrest, he was working for an airborne signals exploitation squadron called Special Projects Squadron 2.
Lin knew some of the Navy’s most sensitive secrets from his time not only at VPU-2 but also as a congressional liaison where he would have been privy to the Navy’s black program portfolio, several sources have confirmed to USNI News. If he was inclined, his knowledge could be extremely useful to potential U.S. adversaries, the sources said.
His last duty station before being arrested was with Special Projects Patrol Squadron 2 in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, from February 2014 to March 2016.
The arrest also followed several meetings with an undercover FBI agent who operated under the alias, “Katherine Wu.” Over a series of meetings from August to September in 2015, Lin told the agent general details of his secretive unit — Special Projects Patrol Squadron Two ‘Wizards’ (VPU-2). The Wizards, based at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe, Hawaii, use specialized signals intelligence aircraft to collect data on potential U.S. adversaries as part of one of the most secretive units in the service.
"While this case didn't turn out to be related to foreign intelligence -- not really a 'spy' case -- the sentence sends a strong message to the force about taking care to safeguard classified and sensitive information," Rob "Butch" Bracknell, a former Marine and military lawyer
What is clear is that last year's sensational headlines were far from accurate. Unnamed government officials told reporters that Lin was suspected of spying for China and Taiwan, despite there being no evidence in the NCIS investigation that Lin ever exchanged sensitive information with anyone from China.
Defense attorneys for Navy Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin, who is accused of spying for China and Taiwan, challenged the case against him, saying the classified information in question is available on the Internet and the interrogation that led to most of the charges against him was unlawfully conducted.
That the information is available on the Internet does not declassify it, Stephens countered. Declassifying the information would be based on “whether the U.S. government made it public – not whether anyone else made it public,” he said.
He also pleaded guilty to two instances of mishandling classified material. In 2014, Lin had accidentally left two flight manifests in his flight suit from a deployment that included search and rescue code names.
In exchange for admitting to the lesser charges, Lin did not face two instances of espionage and three instances of attempted espionage, which were the most serious charges the government preferred last April.
Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin, 40, was sentenced to a nine-year sentence with the last three years suspended as part of a pre-trial agreement with the government. Along with a 646-day credit for time served in pre-trial confinement, Lin could be released from the brig in about four years.
“Lt. Cmdr. Eddy Lin never spied on his country. He served faithfully in the United States Navy for over 17 years, becoming a highly regarded and decorated officer,” Lin’s lawyer Larry Youngner told USNI News. “He accepted responsibility for the offenses he was actually guilty of and he agreed to debrief and further assist the FBI and NCIS.”
“I get physically ill when I think about the damage I could have caused from my actions,” Lin said on Friday. “I’m exhausted and broken in spirit. The best thing I can do is serve as a cautionary tale to others.”
Dear Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin: If you are Agent 370, you are not a traitor.
You are a hero. We salute you.
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I too found that on Twitter, just now. 
I forgot to post the video! But it's there now. Quite a lot of evidence presented therein.
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