Of course they are. That is obvious. Look at what happened with Sandy Berger for just one example.
Chinese nuclear espionageEdit

Sandy Berger with President Clinton and
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
In 1999, Berger was criticized for failing to promptly inform President Clinton of his knowledge that the
People's Republic of China had managed to acquire the designs of a number of U.S.
nuclear warheads. Berger was originally briefed of the
espionage by the
Department of Energy (DOE) in April 1996, but did not inform the president until July 1997.
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And a slap on the wrist-
On July 19, 2004, it was revealed that the
United States Department of Justicewas investigating Berger for unauthorized removal of
classified documents in October 2003 from a
National Archives reading room prior to testifying before the
9/11 Commission. The documents were five classified copies of a single report commissioned from
Richard Clarke covering internal assessments of the Clinton Administration's handling of the unsuccessful
2000 millennium attack plots. An associate of Berger said Berger took one copy in September 2003 and four copies in October 2003, allegedly by stuffing the documents into his socks and pants.
[20][21] Berger subsequently lied to investigators when questioned about the removal of the documents.
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In April 2005, Berger pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the
National Archives in Washington, D.C.
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Berger was fined $50,000,
[24] sentenced to serve two years of
probation and 100 hours of community service, and stripped of his security clearance for three years.
[22][25] The Justice Department initially said Berger only stole copies of classified documents and not originals,
[26] but the House Government Reform Committee later revealed that an unsupervised Berger had been given access to classified files of original, uncopied, uninventoried documents on terrorism. During the House Government Reform Committee hearings, Nancy Kegan Smith — who was the director of the presidential documents staff at the
National Archives and Records Administration — acknowledged that she had granted Berger access to original materials in her office.
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On December 20, 2006, Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that Berger took a break to go outside without an escort. "In total, during this visit, he removed four documents ... Mr. Berger said he placed the documents under a trailer in an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives building)". Berger acknowledged having later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.
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He only had to give up his security clearance for 3 years, no time served, etc, etc.
Another one which happened under the Clinton administration-
A Defense Department contractor was investigated by the FBI for keeping classified papers at his home in the mid-1990s. After the contractor voluntarily handed over some of the material, a search discovered that he still had classified documents dating back almost 30 years, including notes of White House meetings on classified subjects, according to an official familiar with the case. Despite pressure from the FBI, the Justice Department decided not to prosecute and supported reinstating the contractor's security clearance.
Remember David Patraeus? He was found guilty, given. 2 years probation, and fined $100,000
Marine Sgt. Rickie L. Roller went to jail for 10 months, forfeited $14,400 in pay, was reduced in rank and was dishonorably discharged after he tossed classified documents into a gym bag when he cleaned out his office at Marine Corps headquarters in Washington to prepare for relocation to a new post in 1989. Roller was prosecuted in a military court for gross negligence in handling classified information, and his conviction was upheld on appeal even though the documents never fell into the hands of a third party.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Arthur E. Gonzalez was charged with gross negligence in handling classified information after he inadvertently took two top-secret messages on a military trip to Alaska in 1979. He testified that he realized his error and put the documents in a drawer for safekeeping, then forgot about them when he returned to Elmendorf Air Force Base. He was sentenced by a military court to a bad-conduct discharge and five months in prison.
Navy Chief Petty Officer James F. McGuiness was found in 1989 to have accumulated more than 300 classified documents at his home during his 16 years as an intelligence operations specialist. At his trial, he said he had used the documents as reference material when he worked at night. Although there was no evidence that any secrets had been lost or stolen, McGuiness was sentenced to two years in prison.
And this guy-
On appeal, the issue was whether that statute, which reads the same as it does today, requires that a third-party get a hold of the classified material in order for there to be criminal liability. The U.S. Navy-Marine Corps court of Military Review answered that question in the negative, but of interest is the fact that it called Roller’s inadvertent taking of the classified information “his own gross negligence.” Roller, 37 M.J. at 1096. There was no dispute that his mistake of scooping up the classified material with his personal belongings qualified as gross negligence.
As the Court of Military Appeals (the predecessor to the modern-day Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces) later explained in its decision affirming Roller’s conviction, “[t]he purpose of the federal espionage statute is to protect classified documents from any unauthorized procedures such as ‘removal from its proper place of custody’ . . .” United States v. Roller, 42 M.J. 264 (C.M.A. 1995). In other words, the crime—as the name suggests—occurs when classified information is “mishandled.”
For this reason, a subjective belief that the lost information will be of actual harm to the United States—and indeed any intent to cause actual harm—is irrelevant to the commission of this crime.
Just ask Sergeant Roller. His mishandling of classified information landed him in the brig for 2 years.
Military Appellate Courts address “gross negligence” in the handling of classified materials in the 1995 case of United States v. Roller | Law Office of Samuel C. Moore, PLLC
2 years
Ah, so you know about that average citizen who was jailed for the crime of being ""grossly negligent" with classified material?
Yeah, he took photos of his work place on a sub, because he was so proud of his service to his country.
And he did time for that, while HIllary who was just as ""grossly negligent", as stated in the FBI report before Peter Strzok changed it,
got a pass.
It is good to be elite, in a Liberal's America.
I see, so you lied when you said others have gone to jail for doing what Hillary did since Hillary wasn’t taking pictures on a sub.
Like I always say, if conservatives didn’t lie, they’d have absolutely nothing to say.
Hillary was grossly negligent with classified information. That is what that poor sailor, who is not a member of the Liberal Elite, went to jail for.
Different rules for different folks. That is the way of America, thanks to liberals.
LOL
Dumbfuck, it's not different rules for different folks. You said others have been jailed for doing what she did. You lied and got caught. The guy you referenced didn't go to jail for sending classified material from a private server. Hillary didn't avoid prison for taking photos of a sub.
And for your edification ... a sub is not an email server.
THe rules are different if you are a liberal.