Can anyone verify that this would apply to Hillary?
Title 18. Section 2071.
For those of us who do not have United States Code committed to memory, here’s what it says:
Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
Taking secret document alone is a no no. Classified documents must be protect 24/7, and released only to those persons who possess the level of clearance of the viewed document, on a need to know basis. There has to be a paper trail of signatures when anyone is allowed to see them. Having them on a computer that is open to others to view is negligence, and subject to sever punishment depending on the level of classification that was exposed. As a former Op/Intel 0-4, had I done what she had done, and came up with her excuse, I’d be reduced to an E-1, and bagging groceries at Ft Leavenworth for the next 50 years.