Posted on 05/27/2016 8:12:01 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
A former military adviser who worked for Hillary Clinton at the State Department says her “sloppy communications with her senior staff” could have undermined two counterterrorism operations.
Bill Johnson, the department’s adviser to the special operations section of the US Pacific Command in 2010 and 2011, told Newsweek that secret plans to kill the head of a Filipino jihadi group and stop Chinese armaments being smuggled into Iraq both failed.
“I had several missions that went inexplicably wrong, with the targets one step ahead of us,” said Johnson, who worked in Air Force special ops for more than 25 years before joining the State Department in 1999.
He said investigations narrowed down the source of potential leaks to Clinton’s and her aides’ use of unprotected phones — although he admitted he had no solid proof.
In the Philippines, his team targeted Umbra Jumdail, founder of the Abu Sayyaf jihadist group.
“We had good intel. We knew where he was,” Johnson said. “He would be gone three hours before, sometimes as little as a half-hour before. We knew he was getting tipped off somehow.”
Johnson came to believe that unsecure chatter between Clinton staffers in DC and the US Embassy in Manila was to blame.
“Anyone can just sit outside the embassy and listen” with eavesdropping devices, he said. “We suspected the leaks [came from] somewhere at State at the time.”
He said his team stopped warning top State officials about raids, and in February 2012, Jumdail was killed in a US-backed airstrike.
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Criminally negligent is a positive qualification for office in the minds of the Clintonistas.....
Sloppy is a code word for treasonous. Clinton gave information and aid and comfort to the enemy.
Important.
Just cut the a-holes out of the loop. Glad they were able to work with a common-sense, non-bureaucratic solution.
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Thanks, Jet Jaguar.
I don’t think H3ll gave anything away that she didn’t charge a whole set of Ft. Knoxes for.
"Blame it on the a-a-a-a-al-co-hol."
Smartest woman in the world but can’t learn to check her email.
I remember how in Somalia, Aidid was always tipped off ahead of time.
I remember how in Somalia, Aidid was always tipped off ahead of time.
I remember how in Somalia, Aidid was always tipped off ahead of time.
Might not have been slop... recall that Californi Democrat Yee was involved in arms sales with terrorist groups in the Philippines.
I think Abdullah The Tent-Maker is her Thighnesses fashion consultant.
Comey can't indict Hillary!, Loretta Lynch has to. All the FBI can do is recommend charges, which I bet they do. Lynch will sit on it.
Oh, she’s from “that” generation who doesn’t understand computers. But she’d still be better than any damned republican. /s
The Clintons have always been sloppy pigs. Bill lost the nuclear codes one day.
“. . . secret plans to kill the head of a Filipino jihadi group and stop Chinese armaments being smuggled into Iraq both failed . . .”
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/777211.Executive_Power
Executive Power (Mitch Rapp #6)
by Vince Flynn
“a platoon of Navy SEALs, sent to the Philippines to save an American family kidnapped by radical Islamic terrorists, is caught in a deadly ambush. The mission had been top secret — so who told the enemy? All evidence points to the State Department . . .”
Vince Flynn wrote this before Obama seized power, and before Secretary of State Hillary started getting our men killed on the battlefield. He showed a remarkable level of foresight.
And Bush I got ridiculed for not knowing what a grocery scanner was.
According to Dick Morris, hidden in the IG’s report is that an aide to Bill ran the server and had absolutely no security clearance.
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