Posted on 10/20/2016 1:45:28 PM PDT by Innovative
The Justice Department outlines details of the probe, says it will likely charge Harold Martin with additional crimes.
A former National Security Agency contractor amassed at least 500 million pages of government records, including top-secret information about military operations, by stealing documents bit by bit over two decades, the Justice Department alleged in a court filing submitted Thursday.
Prosecutors in August arrested and charged Harold Hal Martin III, of Glen Burnie, Md., with theft of government property and unauthorized removal or retention of classified documents. The case was kept under seal until earlier this month, when some details became public.
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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.
“Likely” is a euphemism for needing to check
if it links to Comey or Clinton or Obama.
Yeah, now you can. If this guy started in the mid-90s, that was still fairly early in the CD-ROM storage era.
Prolly he didn’t mean too. They should let him go stump for that evil woman.
500 million pages
And I bet that’s only 0.0001% of the stuff our massive Fed.gov bureaucracy produces.
Gee, makes me think there must have been a lot of dirt. And that’s a lot of DIRT!!
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
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?
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.”
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.
Minor issue.. I’m guess community service.
68493.15 (not factoring leap years) but that’s working all 7 days a week.
I heard this guy got his contract during the Clinton Administration, and that he was “vetted” by Clintonistas.
It’s the “Psycho-billy Cadillac!”
Of course “One Piece at a Time” could also be Bill Clinton’s approach to...things.
More than 68,000 pages each and every day.
Berger, of course, was slightly different. You see, he was "sloppy". That's what the news media kept saying over and over again
Kool,
Release em ALL, and show the world what horse pooh obammy’s federal gubmint really is.
I bet there are postal workers out there with more stolen mail in their garage than this paltry 5x10**8 pages!
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.
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.
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