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A federal contractor was arrested in August for unlawful retention of classified documents:
A federal contractor suspected of leaking powerful National Security Agency hacking tools has been arrested and charged with stealing classified information from the U.S. government, according to court records and a law enforcement official familiar with the case. Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, was charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, authorities said. He was arrested in August after investigators searched his home in Glen Burnie, Md., and found documents and digital information stored on various devices that contained highly classified information, authorities said. The breadth of the damage Martin is alleged to have caused was not immediately clear, though officials alleged some of the documents he took home "could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States." Investigators are probing whether Martin was responsible for an apparent leak that led to a cache of NSA hacking tools appearing online in August, according to an official familiar with the case.
From the US DoJ release:
A criminal complaint has been filed charging Harold Thomas Martin III, age 51, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor. According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, Martin was a contractor with the federal government and had a top secret national security clearance. Martin was arrested late on August 27, 2016. The complaint was filed on August 29, 2016, and unsealed today.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:31PM
Of course it's more in line with Snowden than Clinton, but why not avail himself of the Clinton defense? After all, if we had Rule of Law then the precedent set with her ought to obtain for all subsequent cases involving classified material, shouldn't it? Let's also consider the scale and scope of her mishandling vs. his--he had access to less classified material than she because she was SECRETARY OF STATE, you know, one of the top five members of any administration in terms of importance? So his was by far the lesser crime, unless you mean to argue that she set up her email server on accident when it tumbled out of her purse and against all laws of probability connected and configured itself with her exact email credentials? Because surely if she can use that excuse to escape culpability for the greater crime, then surely he could use it to escape culpability for the lesser crime?
Of course, if you can't see that then perhaps your accusation of density and/or ignorance is better directed at a mirror.
Washington DC delenda est.