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Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500 Million Pages of Records and Secrets, U.S. Says
Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 20, 2016 | Damian Paletta

Posted on 10/20/2016 1:45:28 PM PDT by Innovative

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To: Innovative

It’s hard to say you goofed and brought it home by mistake when the find 500 million pages of docs in your backyard shed.


21 posted on 10/20/2016 2:23:53 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Innovative

“Likely” is a euphemism for needing to check
if it links to Comey or Clinton or Obama.


22 posted on 10/20/2016 2:33:11 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Dacula
You can get over 250 gig memory the size of your pinky nail.

Yeah, now you can. If this guy started in the mid-90s, that was still fairly early in the CD-ROM storage era.

23 posted on 10/20/2016 2:41:12 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Innovative

Prolly he didn’t mean too. They should let him go stump for that evil woman.


24 posted on 10/20/2016 2:52:40 PM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: Innovative

500 million pages

And I bet that’s only 0.0001% of the stuff our massive Fed.gov bureaucracy produces.


25 posted on 10/20/2016 2:55:01 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Innovative

Gee, makes me think there must have been a lot of dirt. And that’s a lot of DIRT!!


26 posted on 10/20/2016 3:00:04 PM PDT by t4texas (No koolaid for me. Thanks!)
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To: Donglalinger

Yes! The salient question, the only thing that the FBI is interested in, is what was his intention when he collected those 500 million documents over two decades. If there was no intention to disseminate those documents to unauthorized persons, then he is just a very, very, naughty man , but committed no offenses that a “reasonable prosecutor” would pursue.

We could call it the “Stanislavski theory of criminality,” What was his inner motivation? If inner motivation wasn’t there, then no crime was committed regardless of external trivialities, like say...facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislavski%27s_system


27 posted on 10/20/2016 3:11:49 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (also)
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To: Innovative

Wait a minute!!

Is there absolute proof of INTENT????

I thought that, even if the guys fingerprints are ALL over the files they find in HIS closet, but aren’t sure that he INTENDED to commit the crime, he gets to skate...

Isn’t this now the case based on precedent?


28 posted on 10/20/2016 3:15:53 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Innovative

My words: “I made a mistake and apologize. It’s time for America to move on. BTW, I had no “intent” as Hillary didn’t with her premeditated hiring of an IT company to design a non-secure private email server in her home to avoid scrutiny of her “pay for play” activities. Therefore with no “intent” proved, Comey must give me a pass, also.”


29 posted on 10/20/2016 3:17:27 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet

My words also: “Oh, and when Sandy Berger was caught stealing National Archive documents that could jeopardize the Clinton’s, he had no intent to disseminate them and was slapped on the wrist.


30 posted on 10/20/2016 3:21:40 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Innovative

Minor issue.. I’m guess community service.


31 posted on 10/20/2016 3:31:45 PM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: bobby.223

68493.15 (not factoring leap years) but that’s working all 7 days a week.


32 posted on 10/20/2016 3:47:37 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Innovative

I heard this guy got his contract during the Clinton Administration, and that he was “vetted” by Clintonistas.


33 posted on 10/20/2016 3:51:00 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: shotgun

It’s the “Psycho-billy Cadillac!”

Of course “One Piece at a Time” could also be Bill Clinton’s approach to...things.


34 posted on 10/20/2016 3:58:34 PM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: bobby.223

More than 68,000 pages each and every day.


35 posted on 10/20/2016 4:00:20 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: A Navy Vet
My words also: “Oh, and when Sandy Berger was caught stealing National Archive documents that could jeopardize the Clinton’s, he had no intent to disseminate them and was slapped on the wrist.

Berger, of course, was slightly different. You see, he was "sloppy". That's what the news media kept saying over and over again


36 posted on 10/20/2016 4:14:21 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: Innovative

Kool,
Release em ALL, and show the world what horse pooh obammy’s federal gubmint really is.


37 posted on 10/20/2016 4:17:30 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (hey Bill, rape anyone, Lately?)
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To: bobby.223

I bet there are postal workers out there with more stolen mail in their garage than this paltry 5x10**8 pages!


38 posted on 10/20/2016 4:50:00 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: NorthMountain

Yep, Hillary gets no time and every swinging Richard in the military or DOD gets fried. She carried her cell phones into TS SCI areas. No one is allowed to. Hillary is above our laws.


39 posted on 10/20/2016 5:03:56 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Dacula
Can we assume that he got soft copies and not all hard copies?

God, I hope so. If you can sneak out with 100 reams of paper daily, double sided, the security is worse than I think. A PDF of a text page is about 10-15K on average, so a gig to gig and a half a day, maybe 10 times that if images, either scanned or photographic. So your 256GB fingernail would last him 8 months to a year for text, again assuming 5 days / wk. Maybe one a month if images.

40 posted on 10/21/2016 4:54:39 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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