“gross negligence is enough to indict the Screech”
I disagree with this statement in that you are giving in to the possibility it was a mistake. When a government official sends out emails through the CAC that is being used as a training tool to teach subordinates how to by-pass the government COMSEC requirements using a patch and patch process to slip sensitive information through the email system, that is not a mistake. That is an effort to misuse the system to knowingly, and illegally pass the sensitive information improperly. That is not negligence at that level, that is espionage and treason.
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18 U.S. Code § 793(f) - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
(f) 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.