Posted on 02/06/2004 4:30:23 PM PST by truthandlife
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:38:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
That tells me all I need to know. It is un-effin-believable. He is fired by the President, asks for the documents to which he is entitled, & hands them over without review?
Bitter, stupid, or senile or giving a devil his due?
If, and only if, the documents are properly marked. If they were given to him without proper markings, then there is no way for him to know the classification level.
That is true in only a very limited sense, if O'Neill was not at all familiar with the material in question.
It is incumbent on anyone with a security access to know the proper classification of any material that he has access to.
Furthermore, apparently at least some of the material in question was marked. Therefore, O'Neill knowingly published material that he knew to be classified.
It really grates on me when I see time and time again government officials and politicians get away with the most blatant of offenses in releasing classified material.
Remember when the CIA Director hooked up his classified computer at home to the internet? His children used it to surf and play computer games. He escaped nearly scot free. If I had done the same, I would today be in prison.
And yet, in spite of this, he makes more money in a day, placing a round ball in a basket, than 99% of this forum make in a year and more money in a year than the latter make in a lifetime.
Ain't market value grand?
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