Donald J. Trump
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Mad Dog Psycho Jack Smith,put there for only one reason by Biden, and the Weaponized Justice Department, should stop this Witch Hunt altogether or, at a minimum, should give Biden, Obama, and all of the others the same treatment!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/23/classified-documents-us-government-court-cases/11307487002/
Feb 26, 2023, 2:56 PM
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Classified documents show up in odd places, portraying sloppy system beyond Trump, Pence, Biden
Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Mike Pence each got grief for taking classified documents home. But court cases show how easy it was for workers to bring home sensitive records from the FBI, CIA and NSA.
Nhgia Pho aimed for a promotion at the National Security Agency in taking records home.
Asia Lavarello printed classified documents for her thesis at National Intelligence University.
Some workers jailed for taking home classified records argued high-profile violators got off easier.
WASHINGTON – Beyond the high-profile cases of classified documents found in the homes of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, federal court records portray a sloppy system for tracking the country's most important secrets.
Intelligence agency staffers and contractors were caught in recent years squirreling away enormous troves of documents. One contractor mailed home computer hard drives filled with secrets from Afghanistan to Texas.
Stashes of secret documents have been scattered through homes, sheds and cars. Staffers sometimes copied documents onto compact discs or even handwritten notes. It wasn’t always the documents that got workers caught. One path to thousands of pages of classified records was strewn with marijuana leaves.
They cost millions and last years:The U.S. now has 3 of them.
Despite the sloppy handling, the secrets at stake were among the country’s most important. The names of undercover intelligence agents. How the country gathers its information. But from the top to bottom, searches to recover the records often came years after the filching began.
Penalties for mishandling documents vary greatly. Biden, Trump and Pence face no charges. Retired Gen. David Petraeus, who led the war in Afghanistan and headed the CIA, was fined and not jailed for a misdemeanor for his infractions. But lower-level workers and contractors were sentenced to months or years in prison for felonies that lawyers argued were less egregious violations than Petraeus and others.
U.S. Secret Service agents are seen in front of Joe Biden's Rehoboth Beach, Del., home on Jan. 12, 2021. The FBI is conducting a planned search of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware home as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents.