Have no idea. All I want to know is if what he said is true. While I’ve never sent anything over a classified system, I do know that in some of the places I’ve worked there were two or three different systems set up, each for different levels of classifications. But, not being a tech guy, I’m just throwing it to see if someone can give the working mans version.
I worked for two defense contractors. Although I didn’t handle government classified work generally at these two employers the system was set up to detect any attempt to download or print company sensitive material. I could have taken a screen shot and sent that to a printer, scanned it and emailed it.
But with Mr. Pagliano running their server, and being familiar with the safeguards, he could have easily subverted the existing system to circumvent the safeguards and allow the transmission or printing of classified material. If he did that he knowingly violated laws that could put him in prison for a long time. (My guess, however, is that he simply didn’t declare the income and it exceeded the allowable 15% of his State Department income. Thus he committed tax fraud instead of treason.) But if he did commit treason then those who paid him did also. Whatever happens to him, would, in a just world, also happen to the paymasters. He could, if he kept copies, buy his way out and then sell a book. But if he did succeed in ending Hillary’s inevitability he’d need to live in fear.