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US Intelligence Veterans Urge Fast Report on Hillary Clinton’s Emails: “NSA, FBI Have Enough Evidenc
By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Global Research, May 24, 2016
Planetary Movement 23 May 2016
A group of U.S. intelligence veterans is calling on President Obama to expedite the FBI review of former Secretary of State Clintons alleged email security violations so the public can assess this issue in a timely fashion.
MEMORANDUM
FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
SUBJECT: Those Damn Emails Really a Concern
Introduction
Last Wednesday Robert Gates, CIA Director under President Bush-41 and Defense Secretary under President Bush-43, publicly commented that Secretary Hillary Clintons whole email thing is really a concern in terms of her judgment, adding, I dont know what originally prompted her to think that was a good idea.
What originally prompted her does not matter. As your Secretary of State and your subordinate, she willfully violated laws designed to protect classified information from unauthorized disclosure. It may be somewhat difficult for those not as immersed in national security matters as we have been to appreciate the seriousness of the offense, including the harm done in compromising some of the most sensitive U.S. programs and activities. This is why we write.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Pundits and others are playing down the harm. A charitable interpretation is that they have no way to gauge what it means to expose so much to so many. We do know, and our overriding concern is to protect the national security of our country from further harm. It would be a huge help toward this end, if you would order Attorney General Loretta Lynch to instruct the FBI to stop slow-walking the email investigation and release its findings promptly.
If you choose, instead, to give precedence to politics over national security, the American people will be deprived of timely appreciation of the gravity of the harm done; national security officials who do follow the rules will be scandalized; FBI investigators will conclude that that their job is more political than professional; and the noxious impression will grow that powerful people cannot be held accountable when they break the law. Worse: if the results of the FBI investigation remain under lock and key, dangerous pressures are likely to be exerted on the most senior U.S. officials by those who have the key as we explain below.
FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
SUBJECT: Those Damn Emails Really a Concern
Introduction
Last Wednesday Robert Gates, CIA Director under President Bush-41 and Defense Secretary under President Bush-43, publicly commented that Secretary Hillary Clintons whole email thing is really a concern in terms of her judgment, adding, I dont know what originally prompted her to think that was a good idea.
What originally prompted her does not matter. As your Secretary of State and your subordinate, she willfully violated laws designed to protect classified information from unauthorized disclosure. It may be somewhat difficult for those not as immersed in national security matters as we have been to appreciate the seriousness of the offense, including the harm done in compromising some of the most sensitive U.S. programs and activities. This is why we write.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Pundits and others are playing down the harm. A charitable interpretation is that they have no way to gauge what it means to expose so much to so many. We do know, and our overriding concern is to protect the national security of our country from further harm. It would be a huge help toward this end, if you would order Attorney General Loretta Lynch to instruct the FBI to stop slow-walking the email investigation and release its findings promptly.
If you choose, instead, to give precedence to politics over national security, the American people will be deprived of timely appreciation of the gravity of the harm done; national security officials who do follow the rules will be scandalized; FBI investigators will conclude that that their job is more political than professional; and the noxious impression will grow that powerful people cannot be held accountable when they break the law. Worse: if the results of the FBI investigation remain under lock and key, dangerous pressures are likely to be exerted on the most senior U.S. officials by those who have the key as we explain below.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-intelligence-veterans-urge-fast-report-on-hillary-clintons-emails-nsa-fbi-have-enough-evidence/5526858
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US Intelligence Veterans Urge Fast Report on Hillary Clinton’s Emails: “NSA, FBI Have Enough Evidenc (Original Post)
pmorlan1
May 2016
OP
grasswire
(50,130 posts)1. important story, thanks for reposting here
some comments on this other thread at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512039558
pmorlan1
(2,096 posts)2. Thank you
I looked to see if it had been posted before I posted. Evidently I didn't look far enough. Thanks for letting me know there is another thread on this. I thought it was very important too.
TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)3. K & R!