Posted on 10/20/2016 1:57:18 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
Hillary Clinton divulged Top Secret nuclear security intelligence to tens of millions of worldwide television audience viewers Wednesday night during the third presidential debate, according to high-ranking Department of Defense personnel.
Clinton, responding to opponent Donald Trump and a question posed by debate moderator Chris Wallace, boasted specific and “damaging” details about the United States’ nuclear response time to retaliate during a nuclear attack. Clinton said:
“But here’s the deal. The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There’s about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so.” –Hillary Clinton, National TV Appearance
“Secretary Clinton proved tonight she is unfit to be commander-in-chief,” a top-ranking DOD intelligence source said. “What she did compromises our national security. She is cavalier and reckless and in my opinion should be detained and questioned so we can unravel why she did what she did.”
According to Pentagon sources, the information Clinton disseminated publicly is Top Secret intelligence governed under the U.S. Special Access Program (SAP) which dictates safeguards and protocols for accessing and discussing highly classified and Top Secret intelligence. The specific details of the country’s nuclear response time discussed by Clinton, sources said, are only known by a handful of individuals outside top military brass, including the following “need-to-know” (NTK) officials:
President Vice President Secretary of State Secretary of Defense Secretary of Homeland Security Attorney General Director of National Intelligence CIA Director Deputy Secretary of State Deputy Secretary of Defense Special personnel designated solely by the President in writing
Sources said late Wednesday Clinton likely violated two different types of Dept. of Defense SAP protocols. Since nuclear response is part of the sensitive national plan for nuclear war operations, all of its schematics are covered under both “Intelligence SAPs” and “Operation and Support SAPs,” sources said. Both contain Top Secret information.
“Targeting options by ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missiles), air or sea, launch order, launch procedures and response are some of the most secretly guarded tenets of national security and nuclear war policy,” a Pentagon source said. “It’s truly incredible that (nuclear) response time as part of an ERO (Emergency Response Option) is now out there in the public domain to our adversaries.”
U.S. Defense sources said according to developed U.S. counterintelligence, military officials in China, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Iran and even actors like ISIS had no previous definitive intelligence to determine the U.S.’s nuclear response time, especially during an ERO, prior to Clinton’s admission Wednesday night. Sources reluctantly acknowledged her calculations were accurate.
“Any time frame calculated would have merely been an educated hypothesis, absent leaked documents and there have been no such breaches,” the DOD source said.
Clinton has come under fire time and time again for mishandling national security secrets via email, telephone and secure facsimile during and after her tenure as secretary of state. Her mishandling of classified and top secret intelligence sparked a year-long investigation by the FBI and various Congressional committees which continue to examine Clinton’s lackluster security controls with and attitude toward protecting some of the nation’s most sensitive data which she stored on an unprotected home server in the basement of her Chappaqua, New York home during her post at Foggy Bottom.
Clinton, just this week, unleashed a series of campaign ads painting Trump as a loose cannon who should never be in control of nuclear secrets and weapons. Clinton trumpeted the seemingly ill-timed ads Wednesday night at the debate prior to her rant divulging nuclear secrets herself.
Hillary Divulges Nuclear Intelligence
Hmmm,,, what is this button for?
Secretary of State is not a member of the National Command Authority (NCA), and she would not be privy to the amount of response time. She had to have gotten this information from Bubba shooting off his mouth back in the day when he was briefed on the procedures...and the First Lady has never been part of the NCA.
I have no recollection of that statement.
She NEVER has a Need to Know, not even as SoS.
An exact four minutes response is the kind of off-the-cuff answer SAC might give as a worst case response time to get someone out of their hair.
As Scotty would often quip, “It should take two weeks by the books—we don’t have two weeks—so I’ll have it ready tomorrow.”
She is completely and utterly incompetent
And treasonous
I didn’t other than to say for her to spurt it out like that I thought, maybe things have changed a lot. And I’ve never told that to anyone either.
The only reason I had a “need to know” was because there might have come a time when I would have had to have known to get the hell out where I was poste haste.
“should be detained and questioned”
Bookmarking for later read; many thanks for the link!!!
Like “Why aren’t I fifty points ahead?” S/b “why am I not”.
They ask him questions like that and it’s like they’re asking him “are you now ready to confess that the Emperor is God?!?!?!?!??!”
That would be a good counter “why would you be asking me this question if it ISN’T rigged?”
Either that or she was told to say that because no one on her staff realized it would be criminally negligent for her to announce to the entire world.
If you read the Podesta emails it is clear that Hillary’s staff (especially at the mid and high levels) are very attuned to DC culture and know exactly what security classifications mean.
They spend many many hours discussing what she should and should not say on a wide variety of topics, whether at debates or in interviews or in any other public setting.
Imho there is zero chance they would have authorized that statement.
If any staffer had suggested it they would have laughed out of the room—if not fired on the spot by Podesta.
bttt
“Go public and let the chips fall. Otherwise, you are accomplices.”
There is likely no one anywhere in the U.S. government today with that kind of courage. Too many dead bodies.
In’nt that another violation?
Probably better that she DOESN’T get prosecuted right now. Obama can pardon her for trouble she’s in, but I don’t think he can give her a blanket pardon for anything she may have done wrong during her tenure.
I’m sure that the premier criminal investigative body in the country is on the case..
Absolutely.
Somebody gave her that info when she was never in a position to have a Need to Know.
I am certain it's not part of the preelection POTUS briefings.
Only those in the launch chain of command Need to Know. And they would be told as the football was being handed over.
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