Last week, Kendra Kingsbury from Garden City, Kansas, a former FBI operative, was given a 46-month prison sentence for keeping classified documents at her home. It’s well-known that Hillary Clinton had private emails on a personal server in her bathroom. Some of these emails were allegedly classified beyond “top secret” level. After receiving a subpoena, she deleted 33,000 emails, wiped her hard drive, and smashed her subpoenaed phones with hammers. Despite these allegations, she did not receive a prison sentence.
Joe Biden has been accused of stealing classified government documents since 1974. There are reports that he illegally kept these documents stored in his garage, a university, and other locations while he was serving as Vice President. Additionally, there have been claims that Biden’s son Hunter shared the classified information with foreign contacts. No prison time.
Mike Pence had classified documents at his home and was caught and didn’t go to prison. However, Kendra is facing 46 months in prison.
The FBI reported this week:
A former analyst with the Kansas City Division of the FBI was sentenced in federal court today for illegally retaining documents related to the national defense at her residence.
Kendra Kingsbury, 50, of Garden City, Kansas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Kingsbury pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2022, to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense.
According to court documents, Kingsbury was an intelligence analyst for the FBI for more than 12 years, from 2004 to Dec. 15, 2017. Kingsbury was assigned to a sequence of different FBI squads, each of which had a particular focus, such as illegal drug trafficking, violent crime, violent gangs and counterintelligence. Kingsbury held a TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance and had access to national defense and classified information. Training presentations and materials specifically warned Kingsbury that she was prohibited from retaining classified information at her personal residence. Such information could only be stored in an approved facility and container.
Kingsbury admitted that, over the course of her FBI employment, she repeatedly removed from the FBI and retained in her personal residence (at that time in North Kansas City, Missouri) an abundance of sensitive government materials, including classified documents related to the national defense.
In total, Kingsbury improperly removed and unlawfully and willfully retained approximately 386 classified documents in her personal residence. Some of the classified documents she unlawfully removed and kept in her home contained extremely sensitive national defense information. According to court documents, Kingsbury put national security at risk by retaining classified information in her home that would have, if in the wrong hands, revealed some of the government’s most important and secretive methods of collecting essential national security intelligence.