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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, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 06 2016, @05:50PM
You're working from a model that assumes that the Clintons are the ones who are orchestrating the conspiracy. They aren't. It's more accurate to liken them to consiglieri to the Oligarchy/Powers That Be/Masters of the Universe/Deep State/UniParty/Lizard People. They don't have grand plans or strategies of their own, because they spend most of their time working out how to make a quick buck. The oligarchs, for their part, do not have pro-active grand plans or strategies because they spend most of their time trying to figure out how to co-opt or snuff out any challenges to their status quo. Players like the Clintons are tools they use for that purpose.
As far as cover-ups the Clintons might be involved in, they're not the ones figuring out the cover-ups. They surround themselves with amoral lackies who work that sort of thing out. Bill Clinton had Vernon Jordan, Donna Brazile, and others like them. (George W. Bush had Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and others, to give you an example from the Republicans.)
It is theoretically possible for a President of the United States to thwart the Oligarchs, but that President would almost have to come from that stratum and have no fear of them. Teddy Roosevelt is the only example who comes to mind, and his term in office, which he wound up in by accident, set the Masters of the Universe back a full century. It's only now that they have recovered the absolute power they enjoyed before, and they stand poised to use it to put an end to the yearning of the American people for freedom once and for all.
Washington DC delenda est.