Um, I’m not asking about now, I’m asking about precedent. That is, how aggressively were the rules pursued when security came before political football? Did prosecutions EVER go as far as the media, because surely there were instances where media opposed to an administration rehashed / further disseminated / published security leaks that had become known to at least some of the public.
My personal experience with documenting and handling classified information told me that I needed to keep every piece of paper/receipt and acknowledgements I signed because security doesn’t always do their job completely and their records sometimes are lax to say the least - government installations are the worst offenders because no one really controls them like they do with industrial security under NISPOM, IMO.
I further realized that if they (e.g., government oversight) wanted to get or punish you by removing your clearance, etc. (or worse) they could easily do so.
I learned very quickly when security tagged me (or tried to) about a document I was supposed to have to tell them, “show me a receipt with my signature on it.”