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Related: About this forum“Maj. Brezler violated regulations by maintaining classified information on a personal laptop comput
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is not alone in being sloppy with classified information on her computer during the war on terrorism.
The Marine Corps was too.
A Marine officer fighting dismissal for mishandling classified material on his computer has filed a complaint in federal court. He charges that Marine generals unfairly singled him out, citing statistics that show Marines often wrongly stored classified information and went unpunished.
Marine Reserve Maj. Jason Brezlers lawsuit does not mention Mrs. Clinton, whose handling of secrets on her private server as secretary of state is under FBI investigation.
But legal observers say that if the military can impose harsh punishment on a war veteran for keeping secrets in the wrong computer, then the FBI, in fairness, should cast a critical eye on Mrs. Clinton and her stash of information that the intelligence community says contained top-secret data.
Brezler was treated in an entirely disproportionate way, his Manhattan attorney, Michael J. Bowe, says in an April 25 complaint that aims to persuade a judge to overturn a Marine Corps decision to oust him.
Charles Gittins, a former Marine and criminal defense attorney, said Mrs. Clintons mishandling was a far more egregious violation of law.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/1/hillary-clinton-emails-far-more-egregious-than-dat/
I think this story has legs also comparative analytical implications
Maj. Brezler is the officer who, while a graduate student in Oklahoma, sent a warning email via his laptop to intelligence officers in Afghanistan in 2012. He messaged that Sarwar Jan, a corrupt Afghan police chief, should not be allowed to stay on Forward Operating Base Delhi. Jan smuggled arms to the Taliban and sexually abused boys, Maj. Brezlers dispatched dossier said.
Maj. Brezler had played a role in kicking Jan off another U.S. base while deployed in-country.
His warning went unheeded. Two weeks later, one of Jans tea boys walked into the base gym and fatally shot three Marines in cold blood. The killer proclaimed he was carrying out jihad.
For Maj. Brezler, that email may prove his downfall. An intelligence officer in Afghanistan reported him to higher-ups for sending classified information over his personal laptop. A Navy criminal investigation found he had other classified documents stored there.
Go for it in GDP if you want ....... it show a two tier hypocrisy that exists.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)If someone sends me classified data, to my private email, and I know they shouldn't have access to it, and I don't report it, is that ok?
Or do I have an obligation to report it legally?
noamnety
(20,234 posts)Just the fact that it's now in your private email requires a report, whether or not the sender should have had access to it.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)Sydney Blumenthal had no security clearance, which she knew quite well, and yet he was sending her classified information.
Was she reporting this to anyone?
Seems like a pretty serious breach to not report it. I mean God knows who else he was emailing state secrets to.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)This post really nails it down and scares me six ways to Sunday (quoting from the Timeline)
Timeline: http://thompsontimeline.com/IS_CLINTON%27S_EMAIL_SCANDAL_FOR_REAL%3F
From the huge discussion thread ---
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1888473
Clinton Foundation employed Blumenthal to pump leaks from the CIA through his fake job at the Clinton Foundation to the Secretary of State. In short the Clintons conspired to organize and finance a spying operation on the CIA using the Clinton Foundation as a front.
SPYING ON THE CIA -- and
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)First I've seen it stated like that... It only just occurred to me this morning that she's probably legally responsible for not telling someone Blumenthal was sending around state secrets via very unsecured email.
How he has been arrested is beyond me.