If a GS-5 federal workers takes a file with social security numbers out of a Federal building they will be indicted and convicted of violating federal law.
“Criminal intent” will fail as a defense for them.
I think if I removed TS/SCI content from the SCIF I had duty in, even as an E-2, I would have gone to jail, then demoted, then dishonorably discharged.
Intent is irrelevant as regards the Espionage Act.
Is the real reason Mr. Hur did not recommend charges be filed because of the contents of the classified documents Biden stole which the government does not want the public to know what Biden was up to over the last (according to Joe himself) the last 40 years?