I came across this case today:
"Defense Department Linguist Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Transmitting Highly Sensitive Classified National Defense Information to Aid a Foreign Government Mariam Taha Thompson, 62, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for delivering classified national defense information to aid a foreign government. As part of her March 26 guilty plea, Thompson admitted that she believed that the classified national defense information that she was passing to a Lebanese national would be provided to Lebanese Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization." Doesn't this seem like a very harsh sentence? I am curious what your intuitions are. POLL: Was this too harsh, just right, or too lenient?
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Scott
6/24/2021 12:53:25 pm
From the info in the post it does not seem too harsh to me. Treason / spying type offenses are considered some of the most serious of all crimes and this seems to fall into a similar category.
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6/24/2021 01:25:39 pm
"Following [Qasem] Suleimani’s death, the unindicted co-conspirator began asking Thompson to provide 'them' with information about the human assets who had helped the United States to target Suleimani. Thompson admitted that she understood 'them' to be Lebanese Hezbollah, including an unnamed high-ranking military commander.
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Tami a/k/a Princess Leia
6/24/2021 11:35:48 pm
I think this is on the lenient side. Manning got 35 years.
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