A criminal complaint was filed in the Southern District of Georgia today charging Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor from Augusta, Georgia, with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e).
Rush pointed out this morning that this is the same exact section that Comey said hillary clinton violated last year in regards to her private server but gave her a pass because he couldn't find any intent on her part to distribute classified material.
Not quite correct. I don't know what Rush said, but Winner's charge is under (f), not (e), and her alleged confession is more likely to make this case more cut-and-dried. Let me go over the two.
First, Hillary's charge.
18 U.S.C. Section 793(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
This was the crime that Comey laid out succinctly, a very easy case to prove until he dropped the case because "it couldn't be prosecuted." (He of course was right, Lynch wouldn't have touched this with a 10-light-year pole).
And now Winner's violation:
18 U.S.C. Section 793(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.
The snowflakes think she's going to walk, but unless she's lucky enough to get a lawyer and a court who will drop the confession she gave upon her arrest, she's going to see at least 5 years.
