I found myself thinking of a different saying from the military - "Different spanks for different ranks". The classified document shenanigans affect far more people and this is a far bigger problem. We've had a lowly seaman who made the mistake of taking a picture with his cell phone of the command center on a nuclear submarine spendin…
I found myself thinking of a different saying from the military - "Different spanks for different ranks". The classified document shenanigans affect far more people and this is a far bigger problem. We've had a lowly seaman who made the mistake of taking a picture with his cell phone of the command center on a nuclear submarine spending more than a year in jail. A middle level white house advisor takes a dozen documents from a secure facility home and gets public service, loss of job, and loss of security clearance. A high ranking Secretary of State exposed thousands of documents and is not charged. This is clearly different spanks for different ranks.
I've been through the training on secure practices (which coincidentally were set by a committee chaired by Hillary Clinton) and all of these are clear violations. I would be comfortable with the treatment given the mid-ranked staffers. They were all clear violations of clear laws. Perhaps if they were uniformly enforced the many ridiculous classification decisions might be more reasonable and more related to the actual security needs. Uniform treatment would be a step in the right direction.
I found myself thinking of a different saying from the military - "Different spanks for different ranks". The classified document shenanigans affect far more people and this is a far bigger problem. We've had a lowly seaman who made the mistake of taking a picture with his cell phone of the command center on a nuclear submarine spending more than a year in jail. A middle level white house advisor takes a dozen documents from a secure facility home and gets public service, loss of job, and loss of security clearance. A high ranking Secretary of State exposed thousands of documents and is not charged. This is clearly different spanks for different ranks.
I've been through the training on secure practices (which coincidentally were set by a committee chaired by Hillary Clinton) and all of these are clear violations. I would be comfortable with the treatment given the mid-ranked staffers. They were all clear violations of clear laws. Perhaps if they were uniformly enforced the many ridiculous classification decisions might be more reasonable and more related to the actual security needs. Uniform treatment would be a step in the right direction.