The difference between meer mortals and the elite

Joel Mowbray in the 2 Jan 2007 Washington Times, writes about the difference in punishment between two people when it came to the mishandling of classified data.

One was an analyst who is spending 12 1/2 years in prison plus fines and legal fees for passing low classified documents to a friendly country.

One was a high governmental official who had to pay a small fine and lied to investigators about what he did when he was caught with highly classified documents and destroyed some others so they could not be reviewed by others and possibly embarrass him or his former boss.

I thought we were supposed to be all equal before the law, but some are more equal then others it appears. Ok, to tell the truth, I know that people in this country are not equal before the law, those with money have more access to the legal system then those who are poor. Those with political power or connections to political power can get away with things that would land the rest of us in jail.

This is a case of that. One man is in jail and one is free for the same act. Actually, the one in jail should have had a lessor sentence then the one who is free because the documents he took were less valuable/embarrassing.