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July 21, 2004
More on Inadvertent misbehaviour
From Instapundit - the law that is applicable to Sandy Berger's misbehaviour:
Sec. 793. - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
(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.
I suspect the only reason he has not yet been indicted is because he is a highly connected Democrat. If any of us non-politically connected people did the same thing, believe me, we would be prosecuted. Just as Sandy Berger should.
It does not matter if he did it inadvertently
Posted by Beth at July 21, 2004 5:26 AM
Comments
That's perhaps at its core what REALLY yanks me about this.
I hear people all the time saying Martha Stewart is being rail-roaded, Clinton was unfairly persued, blahx3 pick anyone.
But you know damn well if it was you, or me, or John, or your neighbor, or anyone else we'd be cooling our heels in an orange jumpsuit. Immediately. They'd come pick our asses up, throw us in chains, strip search us, hose us down and lock us up. There wouldn't be any "out on personal" bail or any of that crap. We'd be in jail until our trial then we'd be crushed by the system like a grape through a sieve - and locked up to be raped and beaten for a few years.
These guys? They pull this crap and act indignant that people even look at them funny.
I am truly sick of it. They need to experience exactly what anyone else would experience. Might make them a little more thoughtful about what the rest of us experience in our lives every day.
Posted by: Calliope at July 21, 2004 6:34 AM
Oh, and don't forget the splash about the horrible 'arsenal' in the basement... because they would somehow make that relevant, too!
Posted by: John of Argghhh! at July 21, 2004 7:55 AM