Posted on 07/21/2004 7:20:16 PM PDT by snopercod
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - President Clinton's wife, Hillary, and
daughter, Chelsea, flew on the same plane last week that crashed
in Croatia with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown aboard, U.S. Air
Force sources said Wednesday.
A military version of the widely used Boeing 737 passenger
jet flew Mrs Clinton and her 16-year-old daughter from the
Turkish capital of Ankara to the ancient biblical city of
Ephesus and on to Istanbul last Wednesday.
The T43A plane, with a tail number of 1149, was based at the
U.S. air base at Ramstein, Germany, the sources said. Mrs
Clinton used it rather than the Boeing 707 assigned to her for a
week-long goodwill tour of southern Europe because of the short
runway at Ephesus.
The same plane was used to ferry Defense Secretary William
Perry in and out of Bosnia last week. Mrs Clinton also visited
the Yugoslav region during her trip but used a giant C-17
military cargo jet for that leg of her journey.
I'm suprised O'Donnell did not follow the toe the corporate line, he must know something. There is gonna be a mity big 'there' there.
Leave it to IBD to speak frankly. It always has good editorials.
The whole 'After-Action Report' is a smoke-screen.
check out these links
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175272/posts
http://www.jaynadavis.com/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175778/posts
Go through these links, they are quite illuminating.
peace...D
Absolutely! Let Congress determine why, I want to see the DOJ try this self-admitted thief for the felony he comitted. Don't public officials have to swear an oath to uphold the laws of this country? Folks, he committed a FELONY! Put him on trail, determine the facts, and let a jury decide his fate. Let Congress determine why he did it, the fact that he did it is sufficient.
I hope Sandy blows the whistle on them all. What has he got to lose .. he's already destroyed his career.
I was thinking more along the lines of Fredo Corleone.
Wow!
It seems likely. I hope more comes out on this, more actual details. That's what's missing now. And the American people should know. What was stolen? What was returned? Was a copy made prior to this to serve as standard? Is the information just irretrievably lost? How was 'Fingers' not challenged when he left? How was it that he was not under constant observation handling what some have characterized as 'code word' access documents? And so on.
Things seem to have gotten a lot more lax than when I had a TS clearance. Back then, documents were kept in a combination safe inside a secured area. If you wanted a document, you got the custodian to open the safe, and you signed out the document in the presence of the custodian. You had to prove to the custodian that you had both the proper clearance and the "need to know".
All classified documents have "cover sheets" on the front and back stamped with the classification level and a warning of the penalties for unauthorized viewing and disclosure. You were not supposed to look under the cover unless you had proper clearance and need to know.
In general, you could not leave the secured area with the document (unless you were transporting it to another secured area in a locked briefcase). You could take notes while you were in there, but the notes had to be tossed in the classified trash before leaving.
When you were done, you signed the documents back in with the custodian.
It would certainly be possible to stuff a few pages in your pants and sign in what was left. Nobody would notice until the next person came to check out that same document and found pages missing.
Then the custodian would look at the log and see who had checked it out last time.
Also, back then, they did annual audits of the entire contents of the classified safe(s).
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