Don Surber:Did the FBI's staged photo of documents violate the very Espionage Act that they said they were enforcing when they ransacked Mar-a-Lago?
Mark Levin thinks so.
He tweeted, "It seems to me an argument should be made that spreading highly classified documents on the floor, with the covers of the documents noting that the documents are indeed classified and taking a photograph even of the covers purely for gratuitous public use (i.e., for no reasonable or legal purpose), is a grossly negligent use of classified documents and the FBI should be held accountable under the Espionage Act:
"'(e) whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, note, or information, relating to the national defense through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be list, stolen, abstracted or destroyed, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both."
In their defense, President Trump declassified everything at Mar-a-Lago. He had that power as commander in chief.
