He has most likely signed other agreements to keep information confidential. If he comes forward they can and will arrest him and hold him under the Homeland Security act. (Can’t recall the exact name of it.) But he can be held indefinitely without access to a lawyer.
First, and foremost...they’d have to sit there and write down what exactly happened...line by line, and then have some officer bless it as classified at a certain level.
Maybe they can find such a guy who’d sign off on it being classified....but then the question is...you’ve got a written record of what went on....line by line. That gets to being messy (you ask the Nazis about that in WW II). My humble guess is that no one has written a real report over this...simply a summary, which had a classification stamp on it.
If this guy stands up and says something....over a non-existent record or non-existent document...then it’s not a violation. They may pretend it is...but it doesn’t stand up in a military or civilian court. Regulations are based on factual records or data...without that....there is no violation.
I should add this...if this had been an actual US military or CIA operation...with thousands of lines of text over the conduct, timing, or actions....then he’d be in trouble over comments about that. Strangely enough...there was no US operation underway (unless they admit that the ambassador was on a secret mission).
It’d seem to me....they just dig more into a empty legal pit if this guy goes public and says things which aren’t recorded anywhere.
Just out of curiosity, just how far do you think they would go if everything he did was public?
I think it would be one thing if they were able to roll him up before anyone knew anything about him. No one would ever know his name. But, if he walked into a roomful of media, while meeting with some Congressional Committee, I think it’d be much more difficult. Kind of like when Jack Ryan walks in to the room to give his testimony at the end of Clear and Present Danger. What would obama do, have a SWAT team go in there and snatch him in front of everyone? Perhaps.
Rhetorical question: Disclosures pertaining to events in north Africa has to do with homeland security exactly how?
And, BTW, you’re the General that sells auto insurance on TV, yes?
That is a version of disappearing someone, which is what the Administration has already done with some large number (30+)of other employees who were at the CIA annex at the time of the attack. Whatever Obama and Hillary are hiding is deep and dark and they would probably do anything to keep it secret. Issa needs to up his game a lot to get through the veil of this secrecy.