A former F.B.I. intelligence analyst from Kansas acquired almost 4 years in jail on Wednesday in a case that bears parallels to that of former President Donald J. Trump, together with the identical cost of willful retention of nationwide safety secrets and techniques.

The analyst, Kendra Kingsbury, 50, was accused of improperly eradicating and unlawfully taking house about 386 labeled paperwork to her private residence in Dodge City, Kan. She pleaded guilty to 2 counts of violating the Espionage Act.

During her sentencing hearing in Federal District Court in Kansas City, Mo., Ms. Kingsbury mentioned she was loyal and didn’t apologize for taking the data. She was “guilty of being too honest,” Ms. Kingsbury mentioned, as a result of she had instructed the F.B.I. in late 2017 she had the paperwork. She criticized investigators, accusing them of vilifying her character.

Some of the paperwork would have revealed the “government’s most important and secretive methods of collecting essential national security intelligence,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo, including that she eliminated delicate paperwork through the greater than 12 years she labored within the F.B.I.’s workplace in Kansas City.

In Mr. Trump’s case, he faces 31 counts of willfully retaining nationwide protection secrets and techniques, every of which carries a most sentence of 10 years in jail. The former president has additionally been charged with conspiracy to impede justice, corruptly scheming to cover info from the federal government and mendacity to investigators.

Ms. Kingsbury, like Mr. Trump, was accused of not being useful or forthcoming with investigators.

Ms. Kingsbury’s lawyer attributed her conduct to a sequence of underlying occasions, together with severe well being issues she skilled after she started working with the F.B.I. in 2004 and a number of other deaths within the household, together with the homicide of her uncle in Texas.

“These things not only resulted in physical and mental struggles for Ms. Kingsbury, but also caused her difficulties with her work,” her lawyer, Marc Ermine, wrote.

Her lawyer argued that Ms. Kingsbury ought to obtain probation for a number of causes. Not solely did she endure a public shaming, he mentioned, however he pointed to her lack of a felony file, her admission to the F.B.I. that she had the supplies and her consent to having brokers search her home.

“Her situation has been publicized locally and nationally — garnering mention alongside prominent political figures whose conduct appears uncannily analogous to Ms. Kingsbury’s,” her attorneys mentioned.

But prosecutors mentioned she revealed that she had taken house the extraordinarily delicate paperwork solely after she suspected she was being surveilled.

In their sentencing memo, prosecutors additionally disclosed that after reviewing her telephone data, brokers realized that Ms. Kingsbury had contacted topics of F.B.I. counterterrorism investigations. She denied making and receiving the calls over a interval of years and provided no clarification as to why she made them. Investigators had been unable to find out why she had reached out to folks below investigation.

Prosecutors added that after she was indicted, they provided her an opportunity to clarify why she took the labeled supplies house and the way she had used them. But Ms. Kingsbury declined to offer any further info, prosecutors mentioned.

Ms. Kingsbury’s punishment, prosecutors mentioned, ought to replicate her conduct. They wrote within the memo that the “defendant was more than reckless or careless with the trust that was placed in her by the F.B.I.”

Prosecutors highlighted the calls to topics of F.B.I. inquiries and famous that she was additionally “unhelpful” through the investigation.

Before he sentenced Ms. Kingsbury, Judge Stephen R. Bough of Federal District Court agreed with prosecutors that “we will never ever know what took place.”