Such penetration would yield insight into decision making at the highest level of the U.S. citizens that over the years have applied for security clearances, then penetrating Hillary Clinton’s private server would be a piece of cake. After all, if the Chinese, Russians and other hackers can penetrate the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) servers and take the records of over 21 million U.S. “The email issue with Secretary Clinton is one of the most severe compromises of security I have ever known. He said he shares my very strong feelings on the issue. He told me the following: Binney co-founded NSA’s SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) Automation Research Center, and retired from NSA as Technical Director. So, I consulted several of my colleagues with special knowledge of these matters.įor technical commentary on this issue, I turned to a specialist VIPS colleague named William Binney, who worked for NSA for 36 years. One of the distinct advantages of the collegial way we operate in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) is that when, as now, one of us needs input from tried and trusted specialists, it is immediately at hand. If Americans at large were briefed on the potential national security implications, they too would care. And so do all who may have sent a sensitive piece of intelligence to her that she, in turn, might have put on her unclassified system. It is also the FBI that cares, and the National Security Agency, which is responsible for ensuring secure communications, cares. So researchers who care about democracy care. It is not only we veteran intelligence professionals who are alarmed at what appears, at best, to be Clinton’s carelessness and, at worst, her deliberate attempt to conduct her affairs in complete secrecy, avoiding the strictures of, for example, the Freedom of Information Act, which can give the people and historians access to public records in the future so they can understand how government decisions were made. on Sunday, April 17, and at SUNY Purchase Multicultural Center at noon on Monday, April 18.īut this is too important an issue to sweep under the rug. Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter will participate in Teach-ins regarding the foreign policy positions of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders at Judson Church Assembly Hall, 55 Washington Square South, New York, from 7-10 p.m. She replied: “Oh, for goodness sake, it’s not going to happen. Longtime news anchor for Noticiero Univision, Jorge Ramos, asked Secretary Clinton whether she would quit the presidential race if she were indicted for putting classified information on her private email server. While “mainstream” media have largely avoided the issue, it did get mentioned during the March 9 debate in Miami.
It has been six months since Sanders’s magnanimous gesture let Clinton off the hook for playing fast and loose with laws passed to protect classified information. During subsequent debates, everything but the kitchen sink has been hurled at the candidates, but there has been little appetite for asking Secretary Clinton what she thought she was doing, and why she decided to ignore security safeguards. (The reason often given – because she liked her Blackberry so much – does not withstand close scrutiny.) Well, we intelligence professionals also took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. There was no “until we got tired” – or even “until we retired” in that oath. It has no expiration date. Congressman Obey’s persistence and tenacity offer a model for patriots. Secretary, I did not take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States until I got tired.” David Obey, D-Wisconsin, was quick to respond: “Mr. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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