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Title: Pentagon: Hillary Clinton Should Be Arrested For Leaking Top Secret Nuclear Intelligence on National TV
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Published: Oct 20, 2016
Author: Admin
Post Date: 2016-10-20 23:16:39 by Gatlin
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Comments: 18
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: 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. 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.
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I think Snopes and the other sources mentioning nuclear response times as being unclassified are wrong in that the times they mention are not confirmed and therefore speculative. However, a presidential nominee receives current classified intelligence briefings and therefore when Hillary mentioned the nuclear response time, this became a different matter from the times mentioned in unconfirmed and speculative sources.
I knew a lot of people who had done duty as missile launch officers (guys in the silos) when I was in the Air Force. Many had gone in thinking, "how hard can it be; I can push a button." It is an extremely complex process that I doubt Mrs. Bill Clinton can even begin to understand. I don't know if the specific information she gave is technically classified or not. However, she had no business announcing that information to the public simply to try and prop herself up as some kind of expert.
With each passing day I become more firm in my belief that Hillary simply cannot properly handle the control and dissemination of classified information. The lady is flat out dangerous….IMO
Wikileaks will help with the dissemination part.
That really made me laugh ...
No reaction times are mentioned in this Wikipedia summary of the Single Integrated Operational Plan. The first SIOP, titled SIOP-62, was finished on 14 December 1960 and implemented on 1 July 1961 (the start of fiscal year1962). The SIOP was updated annually until February 2003, when it was replaced by Operations Plan (OPLAN) 8044. Since December 2008, the US nuclear war plan has been OPLAN 8010, Strategic Deterrence and Global Strike. […] Executing the SIOP In the United States, the decision to use nuclear weapons is vested in the National Command Authority (NCA), composed of the President of the United States and the United States Secretary of Defense or their duly deputized alternates or successors. The President alone cannot order an attack.[ citation needed] The ordering of use, communication of orders, and the release of nuclear weapons is governed by the two-man rule at all times. No one person ever can take such an action. All military personnel that participate in loading, arming, or firing weapons, as well as transmitting launch orders, are subject to the Personnel Reliability Program (PRP). If the NCA decides that the United States must launch nuclear weapons, they will direct the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) to do so via the Nuclear Football briefcase. At the NCA/JCS level, the orders will be to execute SIOP strike options, broken into Major Attack Options (MAOs), Selected Attack Options (SAOs), and Limited Attack Options (LAOs). Individual countries or regions can be included in or withheld from nuclear attacks depending on circumstances. The CJCS in turn will direct the general officer on duty in addition to one other officer on duty in the National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon to release an Emergency Action Message (EAM) containing an Emergency War Order (EWO) to all nuclear forces; another officer will validate that order.[37] Additionally, the message will go to the Alternate National Military Command Center (ANMCC),[38] located in Raven Rock Mountain, Pennsylvania, and also to an airborne command post, either the presidential National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC) or the military E-6 Mercury Looking Glass.[39] If the NMCC is destroyed by a first strike, either the ANMCC, NAOC or Looking Glass can issue the orders to execute the SIOP. As the orders go down the chain of command, always subject to the two-man rule, intermediate headquarters, and eventually the nuclear delivery platforms themselves, will receive Emergency Action Messages (EAM) to arm or launch weapons. For most modern weapons, the EAM will also include codes for Permissive Action Links (PAL). At a minimum, a PAL code will actually arm a weapon for release. The circuitry controlling the PAL is deliberately positioned inside the warhead such that it cannot be reached without disabling the weapon, at a minimum, to a level that would require a full factory-level rebuild. There may be separate PAL codes for arming and launch. Some weapons have "dial-a-yield" functions that allow the power of the nuclear explosion to be adjusted from minimum to maximum yield. Most weapons have additional arming circuitry that, even if a valid launch code is entered, will not arm the warhead unless the weapon senses that it has been released on an expected delivery path. For example, the first steps of the final arming process for a ballistic missile depend on physical characteristics of the weapon release, such as the acceleration of a rocket launch, zero-gravity coasting, and various physical aspects of hypersonic reentry into the atmosphere. A gravity bomb dropped from an aircraft will detect the altitude of release and the decreasing altitude as it falls. Journalist Ron Rosenbaum has pointed out that the SIOP is entirely concerned with the identity of the commanding officer and the authenticity of the order, and there are no safeguards to verify that the person issuing the order is actually sane.[40] Notably, Major Harold Hering was discharged from the Air Force for asking the question "How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president. […] https:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Integrated_Operational_Plan.
For another viewpoint, see Breitbart and Dr. Sebastian Gorka. With somme careful dancing here, he does not actually say that the cited 4-minute time was classified. John Hayward [excerpt] From that perspective, he declined to comment on “the veracity, or lack thereof, of what she said.” “Just one thing has to be drawn, one conclusion has to be drawn: the whole platform of the Hillary campaign, that Mr. Trump is not fit to serve as commander-in-chief, he’s not stable, he can’t be trusted – all of that applies to her, and solely to her,” Gorka said. “Anybody who puts Top Secret/SCI super-classified information on a private homebrew server, and then talks about our nuclear reaction times on live television, in front of tens of millions of people – that woman should not be allowed – I know this is a line Mr. Trump has borrowed from me, but I have to use it – that individual should not be allowed to run for local dog catcher, let alone the most powerful person in the world. It is unconscionable what she did on national television, and the fact the liberal media is giving her heat on that tells you everything you need to know.”
#16. To: nolu chan (#14)
I know the reaction timing was once classified and I believe it still is. So, if I have no access to the classified SIOP data and I am a reporter who mentions the time is 5 minutes….nothing will be done because that is just a conjecture. Likewise, if I am a researcher and I mention the time is 6 minutes and I have no access to the classified data….then nothing will be done. But if a former Secretary of State and a presidential candidate who is receiving classified briefings mentions the time is 4 minutes and that is the actual reaction time….then I believe she should be prosecuted. But I know that if this is what happened, she will receive a total pass on it. Some people probably know whay she said is classified, but if they challenge her on it….then they are guilty of releasing classified information. the old Catch 22. I will let it go at that. Thanks for chasing this with me. I, like you, want to find the fundamental facts. I don’t say it enough, so I will say it again. Thank you for all the research you post on LF. I of course cannot read all of it, but I always scan the beginning and the ending….and I am grateful when you highlight with boldness the important parts. Keep up the good work, I know you will.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest 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 …
I spent 24/7 every third week for eight years on alert duty next to an aircraft loaded with 5 nukes, ready to launch and attack targets upon receipt of an authenticated go code. During my assignment to a Strategic Air Command Combat Ready Crew, our launch time was highly classified. I simply cannot believe that nuclear decision times and launch times are no longer classified today.
#8. To: Gatlin (#1)
I spent 24/7 every third week for eight years on alert duty next to an aircraft loaded with 5 nukes, ready to launch and attack targets upon receipt of an authenticated go code. During my assignment to a Strategic Air Command Combat Ready Crew, our launch time was highly classified. I simply cannot believe that nuclear decision times and launch times are no longer classified today.
#9. To: no gnu taxes (#8)
#11. To: Gatlin, no gnu taxes (#9)
With each passing day I become more firm in my belief that Hillary simply cannot properly handle the control and dissemination of classified information.
#12. To: nolu chan (#11)
#13. To: nolu chan (#12)
The Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) was the United States' general plan for nuclear war from 1961 to 2003. The SIOP gave the President of the United States a range of targeting options, and described launch procedures and target sets against which nuclear weapons would be launched. The plan integrated the capabilities of the nuclear triad of strategic bombers, land- based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), and sea-based submarine- launched ballistic missiles (SLBM). The SIOP was a highly classified document, and was one of the most secret and sensitive issues in U.S. national security policy.
#14. To: Gatlin (#13)
Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Hillary Clinton’s Disclosure of Nuclear Response Times During Debate Was ‘Unconscionable’
Breitbart
October 21, 2016 Marlow brought up an overlooked moment from the third debate, when Clinton inadvertently revealed some sensitive information about U.S. response times to nuclear attack. Gorka said he wanted to address this issue “in a certain way, if you’ll permit me, as somebody who actually cares for the security of the Republic and who lives in the national security arena.”
Replies to Comment # 14. From that perspective, he declined to comment on “the veracity, or lack thereof, of what she said.”
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