Letting people know you're sick isn't a problem, send information marked "For Official Use Only" Which should be the highest classification a daily readiness status gets isn't a problem. Sending it from your desk in the Navy, to the SF Chronicle?...well, that's a problem. But you would have to have a history of enforcing that level of classification to be able to prosecute. They stopped that during the Reagan Administration because so many idiots were violating the rules. Not on my watch, but I certainly saw it often enough. Way worse during Clinton's Admin, my old boss, who was never one to be trusted with classified info by himself got the boot during Bush's Admin. His Aide de Camp should be ashamed. But no, you're incorrect in that he could be prosecuted successfully, if that's what you're implying. It'd be nice. But there'd be a line about 200k long to get prosecuted in front of him first. Equal rights under the law.
Look, it's clear you've never been involved in handling this level of information. The combat readiness if an aircraft carrier is classified information. The combat readiness of your 10 man squad is not. Letting people know one person is sick isn't a big deal (usually). Letting people know a strategic asset like an aircraft carrier is about to be non-mission capable due to illness is a big deal, was always a big deal, and will always be a big deal.
But it is classified information. So even sending it to your buddy in the Navy who works somewhere else and has no need to know is a problem.
Letting people know you're sick isn't a problem, send information marked "For Official Use Only" Which should be the highest classification a daily readiness status gets isn't a problem. Sending it from your desk in the Navy, to the SF Chronicle?...well, that's a problem. But you would have to have a history of enforcing that level of classification to be able to prosecute. They stopped that during the Reagan Administration because so many idiots were violating the rules. Not on my watch, but I certainly saw it often enough. Way worse during Clinton's Admin, my old boss, who was never one to be trusted with classified info by himself got the boot during Bush's Admin. His Aide de Camp should be ashamed. But no, you're incorrect in that he could be prosecuted successfully, if that's what you're implying. It'd be nice. But there'd be a line about 200k long to get prosecuted in front of him first. Equal rights under the law.
Look, it's clear you've never been involved in handling this level of information. The combat readiness if an aircraft carrier is classified information. The combat readiness of your 10 man squad is not. Letting people know one person is sick isn't a big deal (usually). Letting people know a strategic asset like an aircraft carrier is about to be non-mission capable due to illness is a big deal, was always a big deal, and will always be a big deal.