I don't think printing out is necessarily "disclosure". And how would that government prove beyond a reasonable doubt which ones the maid printed out. There were only a small hand full that were classified at the time that she received them. I think for it to be disclosure, the maid would have to read them.
And the purpose of the statute is to prevent classified documents from falling into the hands of adversarial countries, not to play "gotcha" with public servants doing their work in the most efficient manner. There is not bad intent in having someone print out a document and hand it back to you. That case would be laughed out of court.
Originally Posted by TexTushHog
"At issue are four sections of the law: the Federal Records Act, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) regulations and Section 1924 of Title 18 of the U.S. Crimes and Criminal Procedure Code.
• The Federal Records Act requires agencies hold onto official communications, including all work-related emails, and government employees cannot destroy or remove relevant records.
• FOIA is designed to “improve public access to agency records and information.”
• The NARA regulations dictate how records should be created and maintained. They stress that materials must be maintained “by the agency,” that they should be “readily found” and that the records must “make possible a proper scrutiny by the Congress.”
• Section 1924 of Title 18 has to do with deletion and retention of classified documents. “Knowingly” removing or housing classified information at an “unauthorized location” is subject to a fine or a year in prison.
• Section 793 applies to anyone who has been “entrusted” with information relating to the national defense. The law applies to a federal official who “through gross negligence permits” information “to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, to be lost, stolen, abstracted or destroyed.”
• Section 798 applies to any government official who “knowingly and willfully communicates” information “to an unauthorized person.”
• Section 1001 addresses giving “false statements.”