What’s the lesson here?
August 2013 – US Army Private First Class Bradley [now Chelsea] Manning convicted and sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks.
March 2016 – US Navy Captain Daniel Dusek convicted and sentenced to 46 months in federal prison “… for selling military secrets to an Asian defense contractor in exchange for prostitutes, stays at luxury hotel and other favors.”
March 2015 – US Army General and former CIA Director David Patraeus accepts a plea bargain and receives no jail time for leaking classified and codeword documents to his biographer – girl friend in return for sex.
January 20, 2017 – Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton inaugurated as 45th President of the United States after voters ignore her successful efforts to solicit millions of dollars in foreign financial contributions and her placement of classified and compartmented national security information on her illegal private email server where it could be accessed by foreign intelligence services and terrorist organizations.
I hope that this is a cartoon, joke or is it one of the most disgusting possibilities?
Comment by Sharon Culbreth — March 26, 2016 @ 2:06 pm
Sharon,
It’s neither a cartoon nor a joke; it is a very real possibility that Clinton could be elected President.
Manning, Patraeus, and Dusek all provided some level of information about what national security information they had unlawfully disclosed. That permitted the members of the Intelligence Community to assess the possible and probable damages inflicted by the disclosures. With the emails and other documents on Clinton’s private server, she sought to have them deleted so their disclosure would not become known. I’d seriously question if she can even recall from memory what national security information was there, and even if she does, she’s unlikely to reveal it without first being assured of immunity from prosecution.
Comment by Bill — March 26, 2016 @ 3:41 pm