4 ms·

Drake who? Whoever, it wasn’t FISC, because FISC doesn’t have jurisdiction to do any trials.

• irundebian 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Drake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Drake
  • dragonwriter 2y ago
    So, he wasn't tried at all, he was convicted on a guilty plea, and the case was in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, not the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (which, as previously stated, doesn't handle criminal cases.)
  • DrillShopper 2y ago
    > In April 2010, Drake was indicted by a Baltimore grand jury on the following charges: Willful Retention of National Defense Information 18 U.S.C. § 793(e) (5 counts) (793(e) is a modification of the Espionage Act of 1917 made under the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950), Obstructing justice 18 U.S.C. § 1519 (1 count), Making a False Statement 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a) (4 counts) > Federal Judge Richard D. Bennett was responsible for hearing handling the case, and initially set trial for June 2011 He then plead out