Hah! — If that level of "grossly negligent" handling had been done by a 'nobody' in the military (eg a lower-enlisted), they'd be turning big rocks into little rocks in Leavenworth… if they weren't executed for Treason.
They wouldn’t have even had to be low ranking. The stupid part is of the public and how it is set up this way to protect certain people.
To get CAC clearance, you need to go through a series of film and written tests concerning OPSEC and COMSEC restrictions. This can use up a lot of time and will be extended with, possibly, daily upgrades or briefings from command level depending how bad the error was. And you cannot get access without signing off on the gained information, along with a supervisor and others up the chain. Even the lowest level of the military, in their book training for job knowledge and advancement have chapters in their studies about OPSEC and COMSEC every time they try to advance.
I saw on these boards a while ago where Hilary had signed off. She was well aware of the requirements. So she didn’t accidentally make a mistake, she screwed up and may have done it with a don’t give a $hit attitude.
A civilian falls under Title 18:
Sec. 798 (“Disclosure of classified information (a) Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the
United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information (1) concerning
the nature, preparation, or use of any code cipher, or cryptographic system of the United States or any foreign government; or (2) concerning the design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device, apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for
use by the United States or any foreign government for cryptographic or communication intelligence purposes; or (3) concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or (4) obtained by the processes of communication
intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes - shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”); 18 U.S.C. 793(e), (f) (“Whoever having unauthorized possession
of, access to, or control over any [information] relating to the national defence, … willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it … (f) shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years”).
See also 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1030(a)(1) (punishing, with a penalty of up to 10 years, the willful retention, communication, or transmission, of
classified information retrieved through knowing and unauthorized access to a computer, with reason to believe that information “could
be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation”); 18 U.S.C. Sec. 641 (punishing, with a penalty of up to 10 years, theft or conversion of government property or records for one’s own use or the use of another) (has been used to prosecute “leakers,” see Elsea at 13, note 85); Intelligence Identities and Protection Act of 1982, codified at 50 U.S.C. Sec. 421-26 (penalizes, with a
penalty of up to 3 years, the unauthorized disclosure of the identity of a covert agent, with reason to believe that such activities would impair U.S. foreign intelligence efforts; no possible charge for conspiracy, or aiding and abetting; only two convictions on guilty pleas).
She should have been convicted of gross negligence and penalized.
rwood