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| Retired Foggy Bottom Military Advisor talks about intelligence leaks |
| 2016-05-26 |
| [Newsweek] A retired senior State Department military advisor claims that Hillary Clinton’s "sloppy communications with her senior staff" when she was secretary of state may have compromised at least two counterterror operations. Bill Johnson, who was the State Department’s political adviser to the special operations section of the U.S. Pacific Command, or PACOM, in 2010 and 2011, says secret plans to eliminate the leader of a Filipino Islamist separatist group as well as intercept Chinese-made weapons components being smuggled into Iraq, were repeatedly foiled. Johnson says he and his team eliminated the possibility of other security leaks before settling on the unprotected telephone calls of the secretary of state and her aides as the likely source--though he quickly adds they had "no proof." "I had several missions that went inexplicably wrong, with the targets one step ahead of us," Johnson tells Newsweek in an exclusive interview. Clinton's spokesman Nick Merrill calls the allegations "patently false." Unfortunately, there is much more. Washington Examiner, same story. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 The real tragedy is that Clinton's contempt for security is not at all uncommon at Foggy Bottom. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-05-26 17:59 |
| #4 Johnson says the email scandal dogging Clintonâcould've been avoided if the CIA gave her a secure phone. She requested one,â he adds, âbut they turned it down.â Wasn't the point that there are no secure phones outside State Department facilities? I seem to recall something about Japanese security sharing that they were picking up State Department communications in the hotel or the airport when Secretary Clinton was visiting there. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-05-26 09:16 |
| #3 ...why do you ask? Did you find in the open message traffic that a black person died in her custody? Short of that, the peasants shouldn't trouble themselves. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-05-26 09:04 |
| #2 What are the odds Hildabeast will be indicted? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-05-26 08:50 |
| #1 Johnson says the email scandal dogging Clinton”could've been avoided if the CIA gave her a secure phone. She requested one,” he adds, “but they turned it down.” Perhaps there was a valid reason for the Klingon's to turn down the request. If they [Klingon's] could not talk to her over secure COMS, then everything would have had to have gone over via 'secure cable' which means.... you have a copy, I have a copy. The fact that the Beest and McAuliffe had contact with Wang might have been enough to give the Klingon's pause. Just say'n. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-26 06:54 |