Leaking info to journalist is only worthy of two months when it hurts the Trump team.
Via Politico:
Former Senate Intelligence Committee security director James Wolfe was sentenced on Thursday to two months in prison for lying to the FBI about his interactions with journalists.
The FBI was talking to Wolfe as part of a broader attempt to find out who was leaking details about surveillance targets in the government’s investigation of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The sentence imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson fell well short of the two years that prosecutors recommended. However, the judge also rebuffed Wolfe’s lawyers request that he be spared jail and put on probation.
Wolfe, 58, pleaded guilty last October to a felony false statement charge for lying to the FBI, but did not admit to leaking classified information. He did, however, concede discussing unclassified but non-public information with reporters in violation of Senate Intelligence Committee rules.
Wolfe and his lawyers argued that he deceived the FBI because he wanted to cover up an extramarital relationship with a reporter. He feared that its disclosure would distress his family and cost him his job, they said.[…]
While Senate Intelligence Committee leaders have railed against leaks in recent years and called for aggressive efforts to root out leakers, those same senators asked the judge not to jail Wolfe, who worked for the panel for nearly three decades.
“Jim has already lost much through these events, to include his career and reputation, and we do not believe there is any public utility in depriving him of his freedom,” Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), ranking member Mark Warner (D-Va.) and former Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) wrote in a letter filed with the court last week.