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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Intelligence Vets Urge Fast Report on Clinton Emails. 5/23/16 [View all]
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/05/23/intel-vets-urge-fast-report-on-clintons-emails/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.
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.
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The mega-donors & string-pullers want the future deals they paid her for.
Waiting For Everyman
May 2016
#12
Clinton will pull their wagon. Trump is willing to pose for the cameras and not make real waves.
lumberjack_jeff
May 2016
#49
This should go a long way to answering Clinton supporters questions about why this is a big deal.
Kentonio
May 2016
#7
It's hard to believe that Obama desires the disaster that a Clinton presidency...
Peace Patriot
May 2016
#8
I really believe that the FBI is taking its time so when they finally come to their decision,
Karma13612
May 2016
#9
That may be true, but the intel professionals who signed this memo are pointing to...
Peace Patriot
May 2016
#32
It seems that whenever she faces a "hard choice" she makes the wrong choice n/t
arcane1
May 2016
#40
I thought that too, but these professionals are saying the FBI should have enough for
pdsimdars
May 2016
#52
Interesting that the word starts with an "f", like another word that rhymes with yuck.
pdsimdars
May 2016
#55
Another reality show with Geraldo Rivera, "opening Hillary Clinton's private server"
pdsimdars
May 2016
#56
I would prefer no indictment; it would damage an already nearly hopeless candidate.
lagomorph777
May 2016
#35
As long as you ignore the fact that veteran members from the intelligence community
think
May 2016
#34
I have been annoyed with Obama like they seem to be, that he has come out a couple of
pdsimdars
May 2016
#58
The President himself has correctly stayed out of this - leaving it to the FBI and then DOJ
karynnj
May 2016
#28
I know the two times that you are referring to - and I agree he should not have gone even that far
karynnj
May 2016
#62
I think she got SoS was because they made a deal that she would help him win the election
pdsimdars
May 2016
#78
I think it's safe to assume most politicians in both parties have lots of secrets
Kentonio
May 2016
#79
They could've added: History will not look favorably on your putting party over your oath- which is
JudyM
May 2016
#45
Every credible person who I have seen comment on it has said something very similar.
pdsimdars
May 2016
#50