Posted by Tina
The wheels of justice move at a snails pace but the case continues to unfold. The question of the day is whether department officials and aids to Hillary Clinton, “intentionally thwarted federal open records laws.” The judge in the case is determined to find out:
“There has been a constant drip, drip, drip of declarations. When does it stop?” Sullivan said, “This case is about the public’s right to know.”
In granting Judicial Watch’s request, Sullivan said that months of piecemeal revelations about Clinton and the State Department’s handling of the email controversy created “at least a ‘reasonable suspicion’ ” that public access to official government records under the federal Freedom of Information Act was undermined.
Sullivan noted that there was no dispute that senior State Department officials were aware of the email set-up from time Clinton took office, citing a January 2009 email exchange including Undersecretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, Clinton chief of staff Cheryl D. Mills and Abedin about establishing a “stand-alone network” email system.
Hillary use of a private server was discovered in February 2013 two years after she left the State Department. Three years later we know Hillary and others transmitted “top secret” information on her unsecured private server and the information is so sensitive that it cannot be released. The Intelligence Communities Inspector General sent a letter to senior lawmakers in Congress informing them that some of the emails contained information at the highest designation (SAP):
Gen. McCullough’s letter to lawmakers said, in part, “To date, I have received two sworn declarations from one [intelligence community] element. These declarations cover several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the IC [Intelligence Community] element to be at the confidential, secret, and top secret/sap levels.” …
…Access to a SAP is restricted to those with a “need-to-know” because exposure of the intelligence would likely reveal the source, putting a method of intelligence collection, or a human asset, at risk.
It’s been suggested that this investigation could continue on into 2017. One more reason Hillary Clinton should never be president. What a mess would ensue if our new president had to spend her days in court instead of serving the interests of the American people.
WHAT ALL AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S ALLEGED SAP COMPROMISE–MAJ ED COET, USA (RET)
[COURTESY: CAPT Les Horn, USN (Ret)]
_______________________________________
My name is Ed Coet. I am a retired US Army Intelligence Officer. In my last job in the army I was the Chief of the Human Intelligence Branch for the US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. In that capacity I was also the Designated Program Manager for a Special Access Program (SAP) like the SAP that Hillary Clinton is alleged to have compromised in the most recent State Department Inspector General report to congress and which has been widely reported in the news.
Here is what I personally know about SAP’s and what I can attest to in an unclassified forum:
1. The names of each SAP are themselves classified Top Secret because the information within the SAP are far and above Top Secret.
2. SAP’s are so sensitive that even people who have security clearances giving them access to Top Secret Sensitive Compartment Information (TS SCI), an enormously high security clearance level, cannot have accesses to a SAP’s unless they receive a special indoctrination into the SAP based on an operational “must know” that exceeds all other “need to know” standards.
3. Being “read on” for a SAP is far more then acknowledging in writing that you have been briefed on the SAP. It is an in-depth “indoctrination” into the given SAP, and each SAP is itself compartmented separately from other SAPS. Having access to one SAP does not give you access to another SAP, and in fact rarely does. Only a tiny handful of people have knowledge of all SAP’s. SAP’s are the most stringently compartmented and protected information in the entire US government.
4. Unlike Top Secret SCI which is maintained in highly secure Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilitates (SCIF’s) managed by specially trained Special Security Officers (SSO’s) at various levels of command, every single SAP is managed by an individually designated Program Manager for each individual SAP covering an entire theater of operations. In other words, SAP Program Managers are far fewer in number than there is SSO’s. SSO’s are not cleared to even know about SAP’s or to maintain information about them in their already enormously secure SCIF’s. How SAP’s are secured cannot be discussed because of the sensitive beyond Top Secret nature in which it is done.
5. Unlike individuals with the highest Top Secret SCI access security clearances, who must undergo a special background information with periodic “bring-up” background investigation, those tiny few who have access to SAP’s must also endure periodic polygraph tests in addition to the most comprehensive of special background investigations. I used to have to schedule four-star generals and admirals to be polygraphed in order for them to maintain their access to my SAP. Many generals and admirals who obviously have the highest security clearances still did not rate being indoctrinated into my SAP. In fact, they didn’t even know the SAP existed.
6. Compromise of a SAP is the single most dangerous security violation that can ever happen to the USA. Even the enormously damaging revelations of the Edward Snowden’s TOP Secret SCI security compromise does not reach the level of a SAP compromise.
7. To put SAP information in to an unsecure sever like Hillary Clinton’s unsecure server is a class one felony that could, in some cases, result in life in prison. That is because such a compromise is so dangerous that it could and likely will result in the death of people protected by and within the scope of the SAP.
As a former SAP Program Manager I believe it is inconceivable that if it is verified that Hillary Clinton’s server actually had SAP information on it that she could possibly escape indictment and criminal prosecution. As hard as it is to imagine, that would even be worse then electing to not prosecute a mass murdering serial killer because even they could not inflict as much damage on our country as the compromise of a SAP. Compromise of a SAP not only could — but without doubt would — cause serious damage to our national security.
If it is true that Hillary Clinton had SAP information on her unsecure server, whether it was marked or not, you can be sure that the FBI will strongly recommend that charges be brought against Hillary Clinton and continue in an exhaustive investigation to trace back to every single person that had even the tiniest role in this unbelievable security compromise.
If the Attorney General, through “prosecutorial discretion,” elected not to prosecute this crime, I believe congress would have no alternative but to impeach her, and the FBI would then have no choice but to conduct a criminal investigation of her for a deliberate cover up –- so grave is this security violation.
If President Obama were to pardon Hillary Clinton for a compromise of this magnitude he would render himself in the historical record as an “enemy of the state,” and could himself face criminal prosecution –- so grave is such a security compromise. Nobody, not even the POTUS could gets away with something like this in our system of government.
If anyone could escape persecution for compromising a SAP, we are deep trouble as a nation. No president who loves this country and is ttrue to his oath would ever allow anyone, not even his or her closest and most loved relative, to get away with a SAP compromise. It is simply unimaginable that this could ever happen.
If the ongoing investigation finds that Hillary Clinton compromised a SAP, then we all should know with certainty, regardless of political persuasion, that she is entirely unfit to hold public office of any kind let alone President of the USA — and ALL Americans should never tolerate it. Compromising a SAP is an absolute “disqualifier” for public office and access to our nations most sensitive information – period.
ED COET
Major, US Army (Retired)
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/bios/coet_bio.html
P.S. It is my sincere hope that each of you will share this article, to help other Americans understand how grave Hillary Clinton’s alleged SAP compromise is. We can’t allow anyone so careless with this level of information to have access to any classified information ever again for as long as she lives. This would surely render her unqualified and unfit to hold any public office let alone POTUS if this allegation proves to be true.
_________________________________
Link—
http://robertsgunshop.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-sap-synopsis.html
THANK YOU JUDGE SULLIVAN! Will be interesting to get Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills under oath.
Anyone else wanna bet that they’ll use $hrilLIARy’s response made famous during her Whitewater testimony – “I can’t recall . . .”
Court would probably get faster and more complete answers if they petitioned Russia or China for their copies of $hrilLIARy’s emails . . . . .
I think it should be fairly obvious to anyone at this point that Hillary Clinton has proven to be a very serious and dangerous security risk and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
If she dodges justice, it will be a travesty. If she dodges justice and becomes POTUS, it will be a disaster.
Off topic.
To honor Black History month here is our US history you probably didn’t learn in school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inoWGGeqdmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VYZNgimyzE
Great stuff Peggy. Thanks!
Incredible “lost” history Peggy. It’s outrageous that we don’t have this information in our grammar schools. The sooner we can spread the truth the better!
Thanks for sharing with our readers…wish we could still post video!
In one of the two videos they explain how and why blacks were written out of our history. The black members of the audience are outraged that their history was rewritten and they were denied knowing how many contributed to our founding, the impact they made and even their names.
We can’t learn from history if our past isn’t accurately recorded. And we’ll make the same mistakes not knowing they had been made many years ago but hidden from us. Thankfully, there are historians and collectors who are preserving them and trying to share them to right the wrongs.
Glad you enjoyed them. I watched them again today too. They made an impact on me when I saw them years ago and remembered them for another discussion I was having. When you have the time check some of the others in the series, they are just as good. I promise.
Even though this information isn’t being taught in our schools, we as parents and grandparents can and should share it with our children and grandchildren. They won’t know what they don’t know unless we teach them.