Posted on 12/20/2018 3:26:13 PM PST by jazusamo
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced James Wolfe, the former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, to two months in prison for lying about his relationships with reporters to FBI agents investigating the leak of classified information.
U. S. District Judge Kentanji B. Jackson told Mr. Wolfe that given his position in the government he should have understood the value of truthfulness in a national security investigation.
While addressing the court Wolfe was overcome with emotion, his sentences broken up by bouts of crying. He said his extramarital affair with a reporter humiliated my wife, myself and my family.
It was a significant lapse of judgment and a personal failure on my part, he told the court.
Prosecutors had requested two years in prison for Wolfe, who was sentenced on his 58th birthday.
Two years would have represented a significant departure upwards from sentence guidelines, Judge Jackson told the court. But prosecutors said a stronger sentence was warranted because of the severity of his Wolfes lies.
Wolfe pleaded guilty in October to a single charge of knowingly making a false statements investigators. He was not charged with leaking classified information, but prosecutors said in a court filing last week Wolfes lies caused significant disruption and significantly endangered the national security.
Attorneys for Wolfe argued their client should not have to serve anytime behind bars, saying he deeply regretted his actions.
Preston Burton, Wolfes attorney, told Judge Jackson his client still had support form some of the high-ranking government officials who worked with him during his 30-year Senate career.
Three U. S. Senators on the Intelligence Committee wrote a bipartisan letter in support of Wolfe.
These people know he pleaded guilty and knowing that, they still support him, Mr. Burton said.
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Post 8 by dontreadthis is the reason they didn’t charged him for his crimes, in my view too.
[James Wolfe illegally leaked classified documents to the media.]
Oh, so, like dirty James Comey.
“if he had been charged with leaking, he would have implicated Burr, Warner and the rest of the Senate Intel Co.
This was a type of plea deal to protect the Committee”
That sounds about right.
Don’t lie to liars....they will make a lie out of the truth.
Btt
Because he would have implicated the Senators who knew and probably directed what he did.
That right. I understand anything under a year plus a day is served in the county jail.
I’d only add that Wolfe might have tarnished the blessed memory of previous SSCI Chairman St. John of McCain. No doubt there were giant piles of bens to spill, and Wolfe signaled that he would unless helped out of this jam. I was shocked to see that Buzzfeed was given the Steele Dossier by McCain’s other henchman. My money was on the Wolfe-Whornalist channel.
Seemed like a good deal at the time. Times.
Does he lose his pension ?
pretty simple.
If the FBI or one of its reps ask you ANY question, refuse to answer.
Tell the criminals to go fish, pound sand, plead the 5th.
NO reason to trust these guys there for any reason.
The FBI has proven itself to be unreliable and unbelievable.
NEVER talk to a federal agent. Never. They are not honorable law enforcement, they are only there to entrap.
if the fbi lies to me it’s disinformation if i lie to them it;s a felony.seems to me it shold cut both ways.
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