Posted on 05/25/2016 2:20:48 PM PDT by Lorianne
A group of U.S. intelligence veterans is calling on President Obama to expedite the FBI review of former Secretary of State Clinton’s 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”
Last Wednesday Robert Gates, CIA Director under President Bush-41 and Defense Secretary under President Bush-43, publicly commented that Secretary Hillary Clinton’s “whole email thing … is really a concern in terms of her judgment,” adding, “I don’t 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.
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.
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I’m sure Obunghole will get right on it.
well, well...... his power is being threatened
Yep. Right after his next 18...and another bump-a-rump session with Reggie.
“national security officials who do follow the rules will be scandalized”
There haven’t been any since about 2001?
Should have been imprisoned decades ago.
“Pundits and others are playing down the harm.”
So... I guess that if I take a shot at the President and MISS, that I won’t be arrested or charged ?
Why didn’t Hillary’s boss stop her from using private email. He must have known what she was doing.
The absolutely hilarious fact about this Hillary email crap is that anyone who sent or received an email from Hillary or her staffers inside government had to know she was using a home brewed server just by her email address alone! She was doing it for years!
How some guy from Romania "Exposed" her server is so comical one has to either find our government is no smarter than a third grader, or that they were told to shut up about it. Me thinks the later.
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