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| Andrew Lewis (PennLive file) |
According to Andrew Lewis who is a Harrisburg
businessman and former Army Counterintelligence Agent. He served as the Special
Agent in Charge of a counterintelligence team in Korea, and as the Chief of
Information Security at a military agency in Washington, DC.
Via Penn
Live
Clearances are only given after
intense and thorough vetting, to ensure the individual can be trusted to
protect and safeguard classified information.
Second, classified information must
be handled, stored, and transmitted according to a series of strict protocols.
This is how seriously our government takes the threat of unauthorized
disclosure or compromise of our national defense information.
From Comey's statement, we learned
that eight of Clinton's email chains contained Top Secret information; 36 email
chains contained Secret information, and eight others contained Confidential
information.
You are probably wondering what each
classification level signifies, so consider the definitions contained in Executive Order 13526, issued by President Barack Obama.
The order explains that any
information that could "reasonably be expected to cause damage to the
national security" if compromised, should be classified Confidential.
Any information that could
"reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to the national security"
if compromised, should be classified Secret.
Finally, any information that "reasonably
could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national
security" if compromised, should be classified Top Secret.
Think about that for a moment: if Top
Secret information is compromised, the U.S. government believes that such
compromise could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
Yet, Clinton and her staff chose to
ignore security protocols and transmit this information using an unsecured
email server.
A president serves three basic roles
in order to fulfill his or her constitutional duties – Chief Executive
(domestic matters), Commander in Chief (military matters) and Head of State
(foreign matters).
It is inconceivable that we would
elect a Commander-in-Chief/Head of State who does not understand the national
security implications of compromising classified information.
We cannot entrust this information to
someone who does not understand its significance – or worse does not care – and
we cannot elect a president who would choose convenience over the security of
the nation. Read More HERE
