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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:10PM
The failure of Trump will be because he is an idiot. He has already offered his potential Vice Presidential candidates (current and former) the offer to basically be president. He has no interest in actually doing the job.
The only telling thing of the Trump experience is what it says about the state of the Republican party and how fucked up the primary system is. In my opinion, Trump really blew it just before the convention when he ran all the way to the right with his Vice Presidential pick, his statements about who he says he will put on the Supreme Court, his firing of his staff and replacing them with far-right people. He really had a chance to do something significant because he really turned the Republican party on its head with a lot of his stated positions from years gone by, but instead he's just another idiot spouting extreme stances that are unacceptable to pretty much everyone except the motivated fringe groups who dominate the primaries. Typically a reasonable candidate has to run far right during the primaries and then spend the entire general election run up assuring people that he really isn't an extreme wingnut after all, but Trump actually made it through the primaries with some non-extreme positions (and a LOT of stupid ideas and statements as well), and now for the general election he's decided to run far right. Instead of a potential far-right candidate who might not be, the Republicans now have an avowed far-right candidate who comes off as being very unstable in his positions and statements.
If he loses and you draw some idiotic grand trans-formative conclusions from it, then you are as equally as idiotic, or do you buy into Trump's much-overused ploy of "There's no way I can lose Pennsylvania. If I do, it is because of fraud." that if he does lose, you are convinced it is because of some dark conspiracy rather than the fact that he is simply and entirely unacceptable to the majority of the country?
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday October 07 2016, @06:30AM
I don't think there is any conspiracy. Its politics and there is word for having dealt the upper-hand: being in power. The problem is not that everyone is an idiot who wants to do politics, the problem is that biggest idiots and the actual privileged class who are not forced to do politics to remain relevant think that if people were just "nice", the world will be a better place.