OK, I can’t let this go unanswered. Glenn has too big of an audience to allow him to mislead his followers with this garbage, so let me walk you all through this.
Fact: most of the relevant statutes do not clearly contemplate prosecution for inadvertent or accidental
mishandling of classified information. Even the statutes that do arguably do not apply to constitutional officers, which is what Trump was as POTUS and Biden was as VPOTUS and a Senator.
Fact: there has never been, to my knowledge, a prosecution for accidental mishandling.
It’s not because it couldn’t be done. DOJ declines to do it. Why? Because for most instances it involves a non-constitutional officer who has a security clearance that can be revoked, so DOJ is happy to just let the relevant agency move to administratively revoke. Why?
There is a certain brilliance to the work of @ggreenwald - you don’t have to build anything. You’re never accountable to anyone. You don’t govern anything.
You just spend your time critiquing. That’s it. And that’s fine. That’s what a free press does.
But when Glenn expresses
shock that others might not go along with his holier-than-thou approach to things, it’s because some of us have been on the other side. We have been accountable. We have had to make tough decisions. We have had obligations to clients who don’t simply want to be martyrs.
So yes, Glenn is within his rights to say dissent against Ukraine is lawful. No one is saying it’s not. But he is also a self-absorbed narcissist smearing anyone who questions his approach as a tool of western media who should be fighting against more aid to Ukraine.
So there is one interesting nugget. Employment was offered to induce a witness to conceal information from the Committee.
Moment in history: criminal referral against a former President. Mind you, this is largely for historical relevance only. DOJ is already deep in the weeds of a grand jury probe on Trump and J6. They don’t need this referral.