General David Petraeus was sentenced to serve two years on probation and to pay an $100,000 fine on Thursday for sharing classified information with his biographer and lover, Paula Broadwell.
Petraeus pled guilty to one federal charge for giving 5-by-8 inch black notebooks containing some classified information to Broadwell, who wrote “All in: The Education of General David Petraeus” in 2012.
Those notebooks included notes from national security meetings, the identities of covert officers and more classified documents.
Petraeus avoided jail time by paying a $40,000 fine and serving 2 years probation initially, but a federal judge on Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina ordered him to pay $100,000 in order to “reflect the seriousness of the offense.”
Is this a double-standard on how we treat people who leak classified information? Some say yes, but some say no since the public (and bad guys) actually never got the information.
