Did the FBI’s staged photo of “classified” documents violate the Espionage Act? Mark Levin thinks so. Here’s his argument.
“It seems to me an argument should be made that spreading highly classified documents on the floor, with the covers of the documents noting that the documents are indeed classified and taking a photograph even of the covers purely for gratuitous public use (i.e., for no reasonable or legal purpose), is a grossly negligent use of classified documents and the FBI should be held accountable under the Espionage Act:
“‘(e) whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, note, or information, relating to the national defense 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 list, stolen, abstracted or destroyed, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.”
Let’s recall that the reason for the raid (yes, it was a raid) was that supposedly there were highly classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Let’s also recall that military personnel have been confined to the brig for lesser offenses involving classified material.
Why did the agents spread them around the floor like this? Why publish pictures like this if these were indeed documents that needed protecting? Should the agents that did this be locked up for a year or so before their trial?
Oh, of course, the documents were declassified by PDJT and the agents KNEW this. Therefore, they KNEW there was no legal liability for what they did. They were there to steal docs that PDJT had in his possession that detailed the absolute corruption of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.