{"id":1822917,"date":"2023-01-25T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822917"},"modified":"2023-01-25T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:06:09","slug":"our-classified-system-is-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/our-classified-system-is-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Classified System Is A Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Four-classified-system-is-a-joke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822917&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Asia Janay Lavarello (a civilian employee of Defense Department) took materials, including classified documents, to her home as well as to her hotel room to write a thesis. She was fired, fined and expelled. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-hi\/pr\/honolulu-woman-receives-three-months-prison-removal-and-retention-classified-material\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentenced<\/a> Three months imprisonment. Izaak Vincent, a contractor in the Air Force, was found with 112 classified documents in his house in 2021. \u201c[d]espite having training on various occasions on how to safeguard classified material.\u201d He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdoh\/pr\/former-air-force-contractor-sentenced-prison-illegally-taking-2500-pages-classified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentenced<\/a> up to one year in jail A man by the name of Weldon Marshall was sentenced to a year in prison in 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-defense-contractor-sentenced-unlawfully-retaining-classified-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentenced<\/a> For having classified documents on a disk from his time in Navy, he could spend up to three years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds more.<\/p>\n<p>According to my knowledge, none of these people attempted to sell state secrets or to the Chinese. Most had merely mishandled documents for personal reasons \u2014 perhaps even accidentally. But the Espionage Act or Presidential Records Act allows you to be compliant with authorities, have good intentions, or make mistakes. Those who break laws governing classified documents are subject to strict liability because it\u2019s the mishandling, not the motivations, that matter. Hillary Clinton wasn\u2019t selling top-secret documents when using her illegal private server, but she should have known there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/07\/us\/hillary-clintons-email-was-probably-hacked-experts-say.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a high probability<\/a> Foreign governments could hack them. This is why her disregard of the law was more severe than any other official I can recall. <\/p>\n<p>However, these laws were long arbitrarily enforced. If you\u2019re a political official sworn to uphold the nation\u2019s laws, you\u2019re probably going to be fine. If you\u2019re some technocrat at the Pentagon, on the other hand, your life might be destroyed. We have new standards thanks to Merrick Garland. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we learned from Mike Pence, former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/classified-documents-found-mike-pences-home-turned-doj\/story?id=96637301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notified<\/a> His lawyers found the following: Congress \u201ca small number\u201d In his Indiana home, he found documents with classified markings. The former vice president\u2019s aides also found White House records that had not been logged with the National Archives. Recall that after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home, ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1617937123948244993?s=20&#038;t=oSB4y3SBUinl5MhGHnPWSw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a> The always-principled Pence would be a good candidate if he could also have taken classified documents from White House. \u201cI did not,\u201d He replied, &#8220;Ex-Vice President.&#8221; David Muir asked the former vice president if there was. \u201cany reason for anyone to take classified documents from the White House,\u201d Pence replied, \u201cThere would be no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our partisan AG Merrick Garland probably wishes he had thought about the precedents he was setting when raiding an ex-president and potential presidential candidate\u2019s house. One thing is certain: \u201cTrump era\u201d The truth is that Democrats are always too ambitious. Garland has no reason to allow any high-profile politician to continue operating under the honor system. Why shouldn\u2019t there be a special counsel to investigate Pence, as there is for Trump and President Joe Biden? When will the FBI search Pence&#8217;s home? <\/p>\n<p>Trump:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What possible reason could there be for so many classified documents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1822920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7372,8507],"class_list":["post-1822917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-classified","tag-joke"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}