I will readily admit to being ignorant of the totality of the Comey memos, but what in them "relates to the national defense"? Being classified does not necessarily meet that standard.Quote:
Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
As maddening as it is, the rules Comey broke were just that, rules, not laws. The penalties for breaking these policies all imagine a person that is still employed that can be punished in some way up to firing. Comey is gone. He's out of reach of the government for purposes of breaking policy.
That said, any reading of this as "well he's not getting prosecuted so he's exonerated" is ridiculously stupid.
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