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Beau says:
Jonathan and Diana's attempt to sell state secrets reveals gaps in sentencing for national security breaches.
Legal observers
Insights on the potential implications of lenient sentencing for national security breaches.
#NationalSecurity #SpyGames #PleaDeal #StateSecrets #LegalSystem
Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Beau again.
So today, we are going to talk about spy games,
and selling secrets, and peanut butter, and plea deals,
and things not going according to plan sometimes.
Jonathan Tobey and his wife Diana are alleged,
all of their activities in this video
alleged to have attempted to sell state secrets, U.S. secrets, to a foreign power.
Now, they were actually passing these secrets on to undercover FBI agents.
Jonathan was a naval engineer. He smuggled the secrets out in various ways. This is the
peanut butter sandwich person for those in the know. And then they would pass
them on to the people they believed were foreign power through dead drops. Dead
drops are it's a means of transferring information where you don't have to meet
face-to-face. It could be a stump in the woods, underside of a park bench, hollowed
out Coke can, a whole bunch of stuff like you would find in like a magic shop.
That'll be funny in a later video. But as far as we know, no secrets were actually
compromised. They attempted to enter a plea deal. He would receive somewhere
between 12 and a half years to 17 and a half years and she would get three, she
is alleged to have acted as his lookout. The judge rejected it, said that wasn't
enough. They needed more time. The couple has withdrawn their guilty plea and they
will be going to trial sometime next year unless some other deal is reached.
12 and a half to 17 and a half years was not enough. It is important to note that
he's accused of passing on classified and confidential information. Not secret,
not top secret, and certainly not compartmented information. 12 and a half
to 17 and a half years is not enough. Man, if you had anything to do with those
boxes, that's probably a really terrifying story. Now, there is the active
attempt to pass it on to a foreign power, but it is also much lower importance
when it comes to the information itself. I'm not sure whether or not a second deal
of some kind is in the works, but this is a story that will probably gain a lot of
attention for that fact there at the end, where it's very clear that at
At least this judge looks at this particular type of crime, something that exposes national
security, as something worthy of, well, at least we know more than 12 and a half years.
Anyway, it's just a thought, y'all have a good day.
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