Posted on 01/31/2023 1:07:59 AM PST by blueplum
TAMPA, Fla. - As several investigations are underway over classified documents found at the homes of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, a retired Air Force Intel boss was caught with hundreds at his home.
This investigation dates back to January 24, 2017 when the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) received information indicating that Robert Birchum had been storing classified information on a thumb drive at his home in Tampa.
A search of his home that same day found a thumb drive containing 135 files that were marked as containing Top Secret, Top Secret/ACCM, Secret, and/or Confidential classified information....
...Another search on January 30, 2017, a hard drive from temporary quarters overseas revealed 117 additional files containing "classified national defense information." A final search on February 3, 2017, of a storage pod at his Tampa home for 28 paper documents marked as Secret....
(Excerpt) Read more at fox13news.com ...
When you go to a foreign country, be in your hotel room by nightfall and don’t hire prostitutes. That’s how avoid being a traitor to your country.
1. What color is he?
2. What is his political affiliation?
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There’s an Initial Appearance and Change of Plea Hearing set for February 21 in Tampa.
It has taken 6 years to prosecute this?
Why would someone do this? Either insane or criminal or both.
All military and govt civilians are fully trained in handling classified information.
That stuff doesn’t travel outside controlled areas unless it’s handled from point A secure to Point B secure with special carrying packaging depending on the class level and careful logging in and logging out.
Immediate jail for the perp. No questions. Need to know who the hell his Security Officer was. Evidently the ship was not tight.
You can say it. Black democrat.
“Hundreds of classified documents found in Tampa home of Retired Air Force officer”
man, i really hope they don’t come rooting around in MY basement ... no telling what they might find ... i’m pretty sure there are no classified documents there, but who knows ... everybody else seems to have some ...
sounds like he Was the security officer - light colonel
here’s an interesting opinion that argues most ‘classified’ is overclassified and pretty much useless after 5 years
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/mc-opi-classified-documents-goodman-20230128-hnwkk2hkt5guzo4utzfjitprqq-story.html
Well 1 good thing That might come out of all this as we might finally get to find out what they’ve been hiding all these years about UFO’s
At this point my whole hearted belief is all the “found documents” are suddenly coming to light to mitigate FJB’s problem by showing that everyone does it, except if PDJT does it, it has to be criminal in inetent.
Oops. I forgot about them. my bad!
As I recall President Carter changed the classification rules allowing the entry that a cable was either downgraded or declassified in three(?) years. When he left, so did that change. I agree, over-classification is a problem.
Yeah, that’s how I feel!
I am sure if we search hard enough we will find someone who doesn’t have classified documents.
What year is his Corvette? /hehe
“All military and govt civilians are fully trained in handling classified information.”
Plugging in a thumb drive behind a firewall was a big No-No 20 years ago I don’t know if that is still the case.
Well, then every other serviceman was a traitor who was stationed at Clark AB and Subic Bay in the Philippines.
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