{"id":28720,"date":"2016-07-06T10:39:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28720"},"modified":"2016-07-06T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T14:39:40","slug":"what-happened-to-equal-justice-under-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28720","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To Equal Justice Under The Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/story\/military\/crime\/2015\/07\/29\/navy-engineer-sentenced-for-mishandling-classified-material\/30862027\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Navy Times<\/a> reposted a story from last July.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the highlights of the story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A federal attorney announced Wednesday that Bryan Nishimura of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Folsom, California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.6722222222,-121.157777778&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=38.6722222222,-121.157777778 (Folsom%2C%20California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Folsom, California<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Plea\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to the unauthorized removal and retention of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Classified information\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classified_information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">classified<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Material\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Material\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">materials<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Nishimura, deployed in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Afghanistan\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=34.5333333333,69.1333333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=34.5333333333,69.1333333333 (Afghanistan)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Afghanistan<\/a> in 2007 and 2008 as a regional engineer, admitted to downloading classified briefings and digital records onto his personal <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Electronics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">electronic devices<\/a>. He carried the materials off base and brought them back to the U.S. when his deployment ended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>An <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.894465,-77.024503&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.894465,-77.024503 (Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">FBI<\/a> search of Nishimura&#8217;s home turned up classified materials, but did not reveal evidence he intended to distribute them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>He was sentenced to two years of probation and a $7,500 fine, and was ordered to surrender his <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Security clearance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Security_clearance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">security clearance<\/a>. He is barred from seeking a future security clearance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note that he is barred from seeking a future security clearance because of the way he handled classified materials. If the law were enforced equally, would a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President<\/a> Hillary Clinton be allowed to have a security clearance? Should candidate Hillary Clinton be allowed to handle classified information based on the statements by FBI Director James Comey? Does the law apply to everyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Navy Times reposted a story from last July. Here are the highlights of the story: A federal attorney announced Wednesday that Bryan Nishimura of Folsom, California, pleaded guilty to the unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials. Nishimura, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[832,30,420],"class_list":["post-28720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afghanistan","tag-california","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28724,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720\/revisions\/28724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}