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
And don't forget this...
CHINA WILL LIKELY replace the USA as world leader, said Bill Clinton in a recent Washington Post interview. It is just a matter of time. Clinton should know. He has personally done more to build China's military strength than any man on earth. ..."
The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031001210123/http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=125
there is no one to detain
there is no one to interrogate her
the only solution to the Hillary problem is ....no hillary
Putin already owns her. Why do you think a Vlad-connected bank gave Billy Jeff bookoo bucks for some silly speeches.
I had a Top Secret clearance when I was in the Air Force in the early seventies. And I won’t comment on the specifics of the matter. And neither should you.
I spent 8 years as naval officer and 28 years as a foreign service officer. I held TS and beyond security clearances. I never heard of the “four minute drill” until Hillary mentioned it last night.
It is not “old news,” but rather, a breach of national security.
In the mid 80’s I had a SAP clearence in the Coast Guard. Let’s just say HRottenC’s statement was news to me.
I can validate and verify that information is TS/SCI.
She seemed to be making a _point_ of stating “4 minutes”, which was unnecessary to the discussion. Something in her tone seemed to unnecessarily emphasize it.
” bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order it must be followed”
When she said this, it was creepy, she showed excitement and a sense of power, which I sensed the second she said it. Actually, everything she said regarding this was unnecessary. She could have just made her point without specifics but she wanted to exhibit how much she knew.
Just Trump, based on him saying the election is rigged. But why not ask Hillary, based on her election-rigging thus far?
Everybody is saying she should be prosecuted. It’ll never happen with Obama in office...she would implicate him to save her life.
I think a pardon is in the works if she doesn’t win November 8th.
Maybe I finally will be able to use the “duck and cover” skills the government schools taught me many years ago? Wonderful...just wonderful!
... which wasn’t any more than what everyone knows: POTUS “presses the button”, and within very few minutes the missiles launch, nobody needs to know why.
Strange comments indeed. Some things don’t need saying, and she made a point of saying them.
That's the crux of it. There is a lot of "classified" information available in the open. Some of it is no-doubt even correct. For example, look up the top speed of a given fighter aircraft or the maximum diving depth of a submarine. You'll probably find a range of numbers from different sources. Probably, one of them is right. But which one?
A leak occurs when someone who credibly could/should know confirms that information. If I tell you Road Runner's top speed is 72 mph and Wile E. Coyote will never catch him - you may or may not believe me. You find out I'm Road Runner's best friend, known him for years, vacationed together in Tijuana one time... Now I become credible, I just might be in a position to know his actual top speed...
Same thing. SoS just might actually know decision making and response timelines. SoS might be expected to be part of the decision making process: "A sub just launched on us from the eastern Caribbean, if we counter-strike to take it out, the fallout is going to impact St. Kitts, Antigua... What's the political fallout from this?" ... "Mrs. Secretary, you understand that if/when you get asked this, you'll have xx minutes to respond, the President will make a decision and issue orders. If it is a go, you'll have yy minutes to get your Embassy personnel in the area to safety..." So yeah, someone might have actually told that damn fool the real numbers.
The story from the debate is starting to go viral now.
So can I
Someone should spoof that stupid nuke-bunker Hillary ad that complains Trump can’t be trusted with the codes. It could include an e-mail from HRC tacked to the wall containing the “codes.”
Clearly, her inner sanctum knows that she is not capable of performing the duties of President. She was reading last night from answers. It was obvious in some moments, and I taped one 15 second moment of her flubbing and reading the wrong part of her sentence first, then correcting herself.
So there must be another handler who will actually be responsible for all presidential duties except for Hillary’s few formal speeches. Who will be the real President? The unelected one? And does she belong to the Muslim Brotherhood??
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