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Editor,
I received a “top secret” clearance with “crypto access” in 1962 from the Department of Defense; I had this for the time I was in the military. When I left the military I went to work for a computer company out of Minnesota, which kept my “top secret” clearance for the next 18 years plus added the Atomic Energy Agency clearance to it. I went through security seminars reviews every two years and signed – each basely saying I’d be tried for treason if I told or let information fall into the hands of unauthorized person that was not cleared, and with a “need to know.” (Even with a top secret clearance, there is still the need to know. There was not one word in those documents that said “it had to be intentionally committed.”)
Also, what I’d seen or heard would not be talked about for the next 50 years. Signing into this document made one proud, but also made one’s blood run a little cold thinking if I screwed up, I hope the individual would kill me rather then be prosecuted for the crime.
Now I look at what Hillary Clinton has done. This woman has committed outright treason. If I, or anyone I know, had done just one of the things she has committed, the government would have prosecuted us to the full extent of the law. Clinton’s aides were not even cleared to see the items that existed on her server, including the lawyers that deleted the email. This was outright neglect of duty and treason when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
In the security seminars I attended, they covered the classification marking on documents; but then you were told how to recognize information that was not marked, and you were still responsible for treating the information as if it was marked with a classification.
Hillary Clinton should be in jail, not trying to be President of the United States.
I guess it pays to have the last name Clinton.
Jerry Peterson
Polson
