A Question for my Fellow Veterans. (Secret Documents)

[BOSSHOG]

What would become of you if you put a box full of secret documents from your command into your vehicle, drove out the main gate and stuck that box in your bedroom closet. Would you be held accountable? Would you face consequences? Would your career be over?

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Hillary

What’s great about this question is they all were saying the same thing when Hillary had an e-mail server when she was actually the SOS so had compete authority to have them here we she wanted to. Trump is a private citizen, totally different thing.

[Walleye]

2. General Petraeus got a slap on the wrist,I think

[Glorfindel]

3. I worked in G-2 at a corps-level headquarters in a war zone

Every piece of paper we handled was at least "CONFIDENTIAL" and a great deal of it was "TOP SECRET." Even my shorthand notes and typewriter ribbons had to be burned. I expect I would have been shot if I had tried to remove a box full of secret documents.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

4. I'm thinking

MP's, handcuffs, court martial, Leavenworth............

[EYESORE 9001]

5. I woulda gone straight to Leavenworth

Probably get 20 years if I was lucky. There wouldn’t be much in the way of career prospects afterward.

[usonian]

6. Fortunately, I never saw this, but in the service, an investigation and court-martial.

Results may vary, I suppose, according to magnitude.

Plenty of JAG folks on DU.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. If I did that,

I would be sitting in Leavenworth right now and my career would've been over.

[Wounded Bear]

8. I'd still be in the brig...

and I got out in 1977.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

9. Reality Winner gets 5 yr sentence leaking top secret govt report..ffg, 15 boxes from WH?

..conspiracy, fraud,






...fraud, treason against U.S.?
NYTimes By Dave Philipps
Aug. 23, 2018
Reality Winner, the former Air Force linguist and intelligence contractor who pleaded guilty in June to leaking a top-secret government report on Russian hacking, was sentenced on Thursday to five years and three months in federal prison.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/reality-winner-nsa-sentence.amp.html&ved=2ahUKEwiF3q_DxLj5AhViFzQIHcT-BV4QFnoECC4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw11mdVFFGPnvXLVTc-huIjg

[Corgigal]

10. I only had a secret clearance in the USAF,

but I didn’t have a mortgage I couldn’t pay either, located at 666 Park Avenue.

No, never would sell out America for personal gain.

[GP6971]

11. I saw a lot of careers ended

during my time in the Army. A simple failure to sign off verification the safes were locked at the end of the day resulted adverse efficiency reports.

[Tetrachloride]

12. An acquaintance of mine carried the secrets to the grave

[Enter stage left]

13. In the mid 60's I was in a Special Forces Nat'l Guard unit and assigned to a communications co...

I had to have a secret clearance to learn the encryption & decryption techniques we used. I don't remember exactly how long it took, but I know it was at least 3 months and possibly longer before my clearance came through.

I got out of the Guard in Sept of 1970, but to this day I won't discuss what we did and used for those messages.

I ended up as a spec 5 (acting E-6) training those under me on the techniques.

Until I get written orders from the military, I will NEVER disclose what we used and how we used it.

I guess I'm a little different from TFG, huh?

[BOSSHOG]

21. I joined shortly after I graduated HS IN 72

I was hearing from neighbors and formers teacher that they were asked questions by the FBI about me. I felt special. I got in a teeny tiny bit of trouble while serving but it had nothing to do with classified material.

[Emile]

14. Depends on how many documents I might have sold

to Putin, sarcasm.

Of course I would have been held accountable. Court-martial and a long prison sentence.

[Codifer]

15. There is no doubt

I would have been in the brig for a long time.... perhaps even at Treasure Island.

[sarisataka]

16. Had I done that

I would face a general court martial.

On the other hand I did not have the authority to classify or declassify documents as I wished. A President has that authority. That is something that is being overlooked in all the celebration.

[usonian]

17. BUT HE DIDN'T DECLASSIFY THEM.

Smart, eh?

(My understanding. )

[BOSSHOG]

19. He didn't know how to declassify. Nor did he care.

He thought they belonged to him.

[BOSSHOG]

18. And what if a couple of us "GI's" accidentally strolled into a S-C-I-F?

Possible not probable, but consequences undoubtedly.

Remember the gop barging into the impeachment meetings?

[haele]

20. Over and in jail for a length of time depending on the damage those docs can do.

If it were something that is over and not currently relative though still classified, it might not carry as long a sentence as, say Nuclear materials transit schedules over next fiscal quarter, but I'd still be looking at jail time.

Haele