NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A former White House official who took top secret documents from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office and gave them to opposition figures in the Philippines was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison.Aside from how kind it is of Reuters to identify this man as an ex-aid, even though he was breaking the law when he was an aide (using a fax machine in the VP's office, no less), let's review this.
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Prosecutors told the court Aragoncillo used a fax machine in Cheney's office to send documents to the Philippines. They said up to 800 classified documents had been compromised by Aragoncillo, as well as the name of a U.S. government source.
Aid to the VP? Check.
Leaking classified information? Check.
Outing a US intelligence resource? Check.
Oh, wait... He didn't commit perjury to cover it up first... Silly me. This one does really does have to go to prison.
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