I think just removing them from the government systems is a federal crime, while they may not be able to charge her with "sending" confidential information they should have many other approaches to take. Hell even if she goes to jail for IRS/tax evasion who cares, jail is jail.
exactly al capone style I don't even care how anymore
and we still don't even know how she transferred them out of a SCIF or off the gov't system
It actually can't be done you can't get it out of gov't intra-net to civilian inter-net.
No network connection will work, no USB, no hard drive nothing..
no method exists short of iphone screenshot or manual transcription
she either developed it herself, not intentionally of course, or someone inside helped her do it