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Retired Air Force intel officer who had
hundreds of classified documents in his
Florida home, including Top Secret briefs
on NSA's capabilities, is sentenced to
three years in prison

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 6/3/2023 6:31:25 PM

A former Air Force intelligence officer has been sentenced to three years in prison after prosecutors said he illegally kept hundreds of highly classified documents at his Florida home. Robert L. Birchum, 55, was sentenced on Thursday in Tampa federal court, after pleading guilty to one felony count of unlawfully possessing and retaining classified documents relating to the national defense of the United States. According to the plea agreement unsealed in February, Birchum served as an Air Force officer from May 1986 to July 2018, when he retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel after holding a variety of high-level roles, including chief of combat intelligence for

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Northcross 6/3/2023 6:34:20 PM (No. 1484023)
Can't wait for Hillary to join him.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Nimby 6/3/2023 6:47:00 PM (No. 1484029)
While Joseph Robinette Biden leaves documents wherever, and yet sits in the WH
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 6/3/2023 6:52:30 PM (No. 1484030)
Not a good time to have classified docs around your house. The DOJ wants to get Trump for the same offense, so they will tend to throw the book at any such offenders (other than Democrats) to show they are treating Trump the same when they try to jail him.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Catherine 6/3/2023 7:04:20 PM (No. 1484036)
Sandy Burger used to stuff classified documents down his pants and walk out of the White House. Surely that's not legal either.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 6/3/2023 8:05:25 PM (No. 1484082)
Fawn Hall.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: happywarrior 6/3/2023 8:58:12 PM (No. 1484114)
#3, that's why this article was posted.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: thatsomewhereplace 6/3/2023 10:28:22 PM (No. 1484158)
Three years? How about 20+
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Reply 8 - Posted by: synchronicity 6/3/2023 11:09:37 PM (No. 1484171)
#7 - he would have got 20+ but he wasn't in D.C. on January 6th.
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