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
Sounds like the Pentagon sources need to get out more.
Patrick Kennedy is working with the FBI to unclassify that. No problem.
“Did I do that?”
....stupid is as stupid does...probably going to cost her 2 or 3 points nationwide.... Media will remain mum
All of the US Enemies need the exact response
time because nuclear war of Obama and Clinton is coming,
and now they have this, too.
With many anti American, low information voters, it will probably gain her some points.
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and all the msm is running are articles about how trump wont accept the outcome, possibly.
I didn’t watch, but it sounds like he was playing with them, saying something like “i’ll make it a surprise”
Anyone watching have an opinion?
She’s a mentally imbalanced sociopath.
And she wants to control the nukes?
LOL, that's exactly what he said. They never pressed Hillary on it though which is what irritated me.
guesses and estimations by the public are one thing.
having the information leaked either directly through admission or via classified documents is an entirely different matter.
especially at a time when Russia is getting more nervous about a potential hillary presidency (as she’s a screaming nutbag)
she should be detain and interrogated. this leak should be considered with all other leaks ... which establishes a disturbing pattern of behavior
especially for someone so close to the oval office
I guess she “October Surprised” herself.
I hope she is passing bricks through her bowels right now.
Then she doubled down and tweeted it after the debate.
Because her first FU to America on this subject wasn’t contemptuous enough - and she wanted a permanent text message of the information to get out.
Hillary Clinton is trying to be the end of the world.
She is totally, completely insane.
PING!
This so-called woman, who was so adamant about Trump being a danger with his finger on the button, has a history of wild fits of blind rage. How is that not a danger?
With that kind of insane pathological response to world events, she will surely get us into a nuclear war, and SHE will start it.
If she gets elected, the only thing that can save us would be a military coup.
I have no doubt that they will come out and say that she made the time up and that it is not the actual response time. It’s the only way they can save her bacon, and claim that the real time is too sensitive to actually be revealed. Nothing to see here folks will be their response. How would anyone actually know?
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