A couple of weekends ago, we urged the Justice Department to restore the rule of law to the protection of classified information by enforcing the Espionage Act as it is written, rather than as it was distorted in the Hillary Clinton emails investigation. That appears to be happening. On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced the arrest of a former CIA officer on a felony charge of unlawfully retaining classified information. Jerry Chun Shing Lee (a/k/a “Zhen Cheng Li”) is charged in a complaint with one count of unlawfully retaining classified information, a felony carrying a potential ten-year prison sentence ...

January 17 2018

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Former CIA Agent Arrested for Mishandling Classified Information

Andrew C. McCarthy

A couple of weekends ago, we urged the Justice Department to restore the rule of law to the protection of classified information by enforcing the Espionage Act as it is written, rather than as it was distorted in the Hillary Clinton emails investigation. That appears to be happening. On Tuesday, the Justice Department...

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