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I don't see why we would want a public official to be financially ruined for a mistake in which she did not benefit financially. Vengeance is a fool's game, and
by axlee 6y ago
I don't see why we would want a public official to be financially ruined for a mistake in which she did not benefit financially. Vengeance is a fool's game, and it's not like she's going to repeat that mistake.
- magicalhippo 6y agoI think such gross negligence should lead to much more severe consequences for the person in charge. Either way this case sets an example. The current sentence says that gross negligence in handling sensitive data and loss of state secrets doesn't really matter much. At least here in Norway we have the concept of conditional imprisonment, which is not entirely unlike being on probation. I'm pretty sure our Swedish neighbors have something similar. For a case such as this, a conditional jail sentence of a year or two would not be inappropriate. After all, the data included highly sensitive state secrets.