“Taking your work home with you” is a figure of speech. The point being, he didn’t seem to be intentionally retaining documents beyond his term in office.
One of the biggest factors in determining intent in cases like these, is “cooperation”. The very least any one of these people can do when it becomes clear that they’ve held onto something they shouldn’t have, is to give it back with an acknowledgement that “mistakes were made”.
That still should result in losing their security clearance, at least. Because anyone handling classified information that carelessly, should not be allowed to handle it anymore.
“Taking your work home with you” is a figure of speech. The point being, he didn’t seem to be intentionally retaining documents beyond his term in office.
One of the biggest factors in determining intent in cases like these, is “cooperation”. The very least any one of these people can do when it becomes clear that they’ve held onto something they shouldn’t have, is to give it back with an acknowledgement that “mistakes were made”.
That still should result in losing their security clearance, at least. Because anyone handling classified information that carelessly, should not be allowed to handle it anymore.