Posted on 08/20/2018 10:39:29 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. — A Navy officer who pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information and not reporting foreign contacts will serve 6 years of confinement and will be dismissed from the Navy, a military judge ruled in a Friday sentencing hearing.
Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin, 40, was sentenced to a nine-year sentence with the last three years suspended as part of a pre-trial agreement with the government. Along with a 646-day credit for time served in pre-trial confinement, Lin could be released from the brig in about four years.
He pleaded guilty last month to mishandling classified information, not reporting foreign contacts and putting U.S. destinations on leave requests when he had planned to leave the country.
n exchange for admitting to the lesser charges, Lin did not face two instances of espionage and three instances of attempted espionage, which were the most serious charges the government preferred last April.
Instead, the government charged Lin under Federal law in communicating secret information with a U.S. citizen who worked for Taiwanese political party and an undercover FBI agent.
“While this case didn’t turn out to be related to foreign intelligence — not really a ‘spy’ case — the sentence sends a strong message to the force about taking care to safeguard classified and sensitive information,” Rob “Butch” Bracknell, a former Marine and military lawyer, told USNI News on Friday.”It also invites comparison to other more high profile classified and sensitive information cases in Washington, and it may be fair criticism that senior folks are handled with kid gloves compared to rank and file personnel.”
Lin, by his own admission before a military judge, was sloppy with handling classified information and arrogantly attempting to impress women with information he knew.
“I get physically ill when I think about the damage I
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By this standard, Killary should serve 50 consecutive life sentences.
Wow. If he got 6 years, then I bet Hillary will get 600 years!
[chortle] Sometimes I crack myself up.
He should have changed his name to C_Lin_ton.
There will not exist two systems of justice in this country. Either the people’s representatives deliver justice to the Clinton/Obama cabal, or the people, themselves will. It would be better for all concerned if it were the former.
There is no justice in our “justice” system. HilLIARy obama and Kerry are all still walking free
Ha! You win the Best post of the day award!
What’s happening with Hillary?
That’s pretty flowery language. Why doesn’t the dude just cut to the chase, and come right out and say it? The Hildebeast got away with criminal activities, that none of the rest of us could. I have nothing but utter contempt for that wench.
I wish the president would go on national TV, and mention this incident.
He should have changed his name to C_Lin_ton.
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That is funny... and sad, but true.
Which begs the question of hildabutchbitch and her 'care and safeguarding of classified and sensitive information'.
Two sets of laws.
One without benefit of parole would make me smile.
“What’s happening with Hillary?”
We will know when she is indicted.
This dude should have used the ol’...I didn’t mean to break the law..deal. It works for some people.
Trump should serve notice to Sessions that he will pardon this guy in one week and all such cases in the future until a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate Hillary’s security violations and the FBI and justice department handling of her case
No pardon for this guy! He must be punished as should Shilleerie Klintoon.
“Trump should serve notice to Sessions that he will pardon this guy in one week and all such cases in the future until a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate Hillary’s security violations and the FBI and justice department handling of her case.”
OMG - the barrels of ink and electrons expended by the TDS-afflicted “journalists” if this were to happen can’t even be imagined. Total head-splodey factor for the lib-progs...
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