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Posted on 03/28/2017 5:25:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Georgia Democrat held security clearance for just five months, not five years
After claiming for months he had five years of experience as a congressional national security staffer with top-secret clearance, Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff has now admitted that he had clearance for just five months.
Since Ossoff announced his campaign to fill the seat vacated by Tom Price earlier this year, he has leaned on his supposed five years as a "national security aide with top-secret clearance." The claim has been made in campaign ads, during campaign events, and even in his campaign announcement.
The Washington Free Beacon reported last week that Ossoff's claim was dubious. Ossoff was a 19-year-old student at Georgetown University when he began working as a part-time staffer for Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.), but security clearances are generally granted only to permanent staffers. He was not made a full-time staffer for another two years.
Ossoff's campaign did not respond to Washington Free Beacon requests for more information about his time working in Johnson's office, but provided local reporters with a timeline that shows Ossoff worked for just over two years as a full-time aide—and worked only five months with top-secret clearance.
Here's the timeline, from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
— January 2007: Ossoff starts in Johnson's office as a part-time legislative correspondent, working 25-30 hours a week while attending Georgetown University.
— May 2009: Ossoff graduates from Georgetown University.
— Summer 2009: Ossoff spends time traveling before he returns to work as Johnson's legislative assistant in August 2009.
— January 2010: Ossoff is promoted to senior legislative assistant.
— April to July 2010: Ossoff runs Johnson's re-election campaign.
— September 2010: Ossoff returns to Johnson’s Capitol Hill office.
— March 2012: Ossoff receives a top-secret security clearance and staffs Johnson for work related to the National Defense Authorization Act.
— Mid-August 2012: Ossoff leaves Johnson’s office.
Ossoff's campaign previously told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Ossoff was given his security clearance after working on Johnson's campaign as a press officer in 2006—failing to disclose that by "after" they meant six years later.
After Ossoff left Johnson's office he moved to Great Britain to attend graduate school and become CEO of an investigative film company that does work for Al Jazeera.
This can only help him as lying is a democrat resume enhancer.
Another lying dimoKKKRAT. I think it runs in their DNA
Only Maxine Waters’ galling stupidity prevents Hank Johnson from being known as the dumbest thing in Congress. Hard to believe anyone would boast of working in his office.
He’ll probably get a pass on this if he can show he was a pedophile pervert for five years...
Heads up.
I think this will hurt his candidacy, but he still has the GA momentum, like James Earl Carter, Jr., in 1976.
Just to make sure everyone knows, that is Rep. Hank “Guam is going to tip over” Johnson that he worked for. One of the Democrats’ best!
Hank “Guam flip” Johnson? Is this dumbass melanin enhanced too? And he has the momentum to take Price’s seat? Wow.
I mean we have an American Indian Princess
and a dead broke First Lady
I am surprised to see this guy is a dem! He’s got some good commercials going (if it’s the same guy) and I assumed he was a Republican.
Republicans need to group together and take this lying smart ass down soon...
liberals and the party are supporting him big time...watch the crime family foundation give him money...they are desperate to take over the House and Senate and we need to fight them tooth and nail.
My adult daughter lives in Atlanta area of Georgia..said democrats there are as EVIL AS THEY ARE IN WASHINGTON...We all need to support our Party and our PRESIDENT...STOP THE BAD MOUTHING...YES REPUBLICANS..WHO TREAT HIM SO DISRESPECTFUL, JUST BECAUSE HE ISN’T JEBBY, THE CRY BABY BUSH.
But the DNC has poured literally MILLIONS of dollars into this race - ads are running nonstop on WSB and other talk radio stations.
The ads don't mention his party affiliation, but if you read between the lines he's clearly a Dem - because of the people he boasts of having worked for and the people who are endorsing him (all Dems).
I don’t give a damn about this guy. But I do want to know if the Republicans have someone who is a real conservative who will beat him?
So he was the brains behind Hank Johnson?
This district is Republican, but is trending the wrong way.
Hillary only lost this district to Trump by 1.5% (48.3-46.8%). Rich RINOs crossed over to vote for her, as the execrable Socialist Willard carried the same district in 2012 over Zero by over 23% (61-38%).
Because of that plurality is why the Dems feel they have a chance to flip this seat back for the first time in 3 decades with regular Dem votes and Willardbot never-Trumper leftist RINOs.
If this district were 5-10% more Dem, “Han Solo” might have it in the bag, but it isn’t.
I was in Atlanta over the weekend and his signs are everywhere and his television ads are in intense, omnipresent rotation. Didn’t know he existed until Saturday. One thing about this ad that is very bizarre - he overdubbed his own speaking. Look at the ad and listen to his voice, and consider the location. He is shown walking through a yard, walking through a warehouse, walking through an office, while continuously speaking to the camera. None of those settings has remotely the same acoustics, yet his voice is perfectly consistent. He overdubbed his own voice. Very unusual.
He’ll go down to defeat in this district. I’m thinking it will be Karen Handal.
His claim to fame is that he worked for idiot Hank Johnson?
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