Rss@dailykos.com (mark Sumner) · Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 11:13 am
Calm down. It’s not as if Michael Flynn missed seeing a letter ‘c’ embedded paragraphs into an email. Nothing that serious. It’s only that he shared classified military information during a conflict.
A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, “inappropriately shared” classified information with foreign military officers in Afghanistan, newly released documents show.
And as we know, every person other than HIllary Clinton who ever did anything with classified information was strictly punished and held to incredible standards and ...
Although Flynn lacked authorization to share the classified material, he was not disciplined or reprimanded after the investigation concluded that he did not act “knowingly” and that “there was no actual or potential damage to national security as a result,” according to Army records obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act.
So, because the Army did not find clear evidence that Flynn intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, and he was only extremely careless in handling of sensitive, classified information, his punishment was—nothing at all.
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