Will he go free ?....If Hillary gets away with it, so should Mr. Martin and he should get his old job back also....
In the four years Hillary Clinton sent and received State Department correspondence using a private and insecure email system, Harold T. Martin III allegedly stockpiled classified information inside his Maryland home and an unlocked shed.
Martin faces charges for alleged theft of government documents and mishandling classified information that carry up to 11 years in prison, and he’s been behind bars since his August arrest, with prosecutors saying they intend to file more serious Espionage Act charges, often used by the Obama administration to go after leakers and whistleblowers.
Though prosecutors have not alleged the now-fired Booz Allen Hamilton contractor -- who worked for the National Security Agency six years before a transfer to the Pentagon last year -- is a spy or that he shared the information or allowed it to be accessed by a third party, they do allege he could be responsible for one of the largest security violations ever and knowingly mishandled classified records working various jobs over two decades.
Defense attorneys for prominent whistleblowers, accused leakers and careless clearance-holders say that unless more damning evidence emerges they could see Martin making a successful plea for leniency by pointing to the Justice Department’s decision this summer not to prosecute Clinton.
There are, of course, key differences in the cases, with volume the most glaring. The FBI found that Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, sent or received 110 emails that had classified information at the time they were sent, with eight email threads containing top secret information. Martin, by contrast, allegedly had many printed pages marked as being classified and 50 terabytes of potentially classified data (equivalent to roughly 500 million pages), much of it believed to be considered top secret.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/clinton-emails-could-help-ex-nsa-contractor-who-took-terabytes-home-attorneys-say
In the four years Hillary Clinton sent and received State Department correspondence using a private and insecure email system, Harold T. Martin III allegedly stockpiled classified information inside his Maryland home and an unlocked shed.
Martin faces charges for alleged theft of government documents and mishandling classified information that carry up to 11 years in prison, and he’s been behind bars since his August arrest, with prosecutors saying they intend to file more serious Espionage Act charges, often used by the Obama administration to go after leakers and whistleblowers.
Though prosecutors have not alleged the now-fired Booz Allen Hamilton contractor -- who worked for the National Security Agency six years before a transfer to the Pentagon last year -- is a spy or that he shared the information or allowed it to be accessed by a third party, they do allege he could be responsible for one of the largest security violations ever and knowingly mishandled classified records working various jobs over two decades.
Defense attorneys for prominent whistleblowers, accused leakers and careless clearance-holders say that unless more damning evidence emerges they could see Martin making a successful plea for leniency by pointing to the Justice Department’s decision this summer not to prosecute Clinton.
There are, of course, key differences in the cases, with volume the most glaring. The FBI found that Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, sent or received 110 emails that had classified information at the time they were sent, with eight email threads containing top secret information. Martin, by contrast, allegedly had many printed pages marked as being classified and 50 terabytes of potentially classified data (equivalent to roughly 500 million pages), much of it believed to be considered top secret.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/clinton-emails-could-help-ex-nsa-contractor-who-took-terabytes-home-attorneys-say