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by zimpenfish 3691 days ago
cf Petraeus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/penta...

> Specifically, Petraeus acknowledged providing eight notebooks containing highly classified material to his biographer, Paula Broadwell, in the waning days of his Army career.

And yet

> In April, after a lengthy investigation by the FBI that disgraced the onetime military hero, Petraeus pleaded guilty in federal court in North Carolina to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials. He was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $100,000.

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And yet all you have as a rebuttal is someone who PLEADED guilty, not who was convicted... I love the US kangaroo courts, where hardly anybody ever goes to trial.