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Subject: SAP Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:53 pm

RobS 1 hour ago
WHAT ALL AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S ALLEGED SAP COMPROMISE–MAJ ED COET, USA (RET)
[COURTESY: CAPT Les Horn, USN (Ret)]

My name is Ed Coet. I am a retired US Army Intelligence Officer. In my last job in the army I was the Chief of the Human Intelligence Branch for the US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. In that capacity I was also the Designated Program Manager for a Special Access Program (SAP) like the SAP that Hillary Clinton is alleged to have compromised in the most recent State Department Inspector General report to congress and which has been widely reported in the news.

Here is what I personally know about SAP’s and what I can attest to in an unclassified forum:

1. The names of each SAP are themselves classified Top Secret because the information within the SAP are far and above Top Secret.

2. SAP’s are so sensitive that even people who have security clearances giving them access to Top Secret Sensitive Compartment Information (TS SCI), an enormously high security clearance level, cannot have accesses to a SAP’s unless they receive a special indoctrination into the SAP based on an operational “must know” that exceeds all other “need to know” standards.

3. Being “read on” for a SAP is far more then acknowledging in writing that you have been briefed on the SAP. It is an in-depth “indoctrination” into the given SAP, and each SAP is itself compartmented separately from other SAPS. Having access to one SAP does not give you access to another SAP, and in fact rarely does. Only a tiny handful of people have knowledge of all SAP’s. SAP’s are the most stringently compartmented and protected information in the entire US government.

4. Unlike Top Secret SCI which is maintained in highly secure Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilitates (SCIF’s) managed by specially trained Special Security Officers (SSO’s) at various levels of command, every single SAP is managed by an individually designated Program Manager for each individual SAP covering an entire theater of operations. In other words, SAP Program Managers are far fewer in number than there is SSO’s. SSO’s are not cleared to even know about SAP’s or to maintain information about them in their already enormously secure SCIF’s. How SAP’s are secured cannot be discussed because of the sensitive beyond Top Secret nature in which it is done.

5. Unlike individuals with the highest Top Secret SCI access security clearances, who must undergo a special background information with periodic “bring-up” background investigation, those tiny few who have access to SAP’s must also endure periodic polygraph tests in addition to the most comprehensive of special background investigations. I used to have to schedule four-star generals and admirals to be polygraphed in order for them to maintain their access to my SAP. Many generals and admirals who obviously have the highest security clearances still did not rate being indoctrinated into my SAP. In fact, they didn’t even know the SAP existed.

6. Compromise of a SAP is the single most dangerous security violation that can ever happen to the USA. Even the enormously damaging revelations of the Edward Snowden’s TOP Secret SCI security compromise does not reach the level of a SAP compromise.

7. To put SAP information in to an unsecure sever like Hillary Clinton’s unsecure server is a class one felony that could, in some cases, result in life in prison. That is because such a compromise is so dangerous that it could and likely will result in the death of people protected by and within the scope of the SAP.

As a former SAP Program Manager I believe it is inconceivable that if it is verified that Hillary Clinton’s server actually had SAP information on it that she could possibly escape indictment and criminal prosecution. As hard as it is to imagine, that would even be worse then electing to not prosecute a mass murdering serial killer because even they could not inflict as much damage on our country as the compromise of a SAP. Compromise of a SAP not only could — but without doubt would — cause serious damage to our national security.

If it is true that Hillary Clinton had SAP information on her unsecure server, whether it was marked or not, you can be sure that the FBI will strongly recommend that charges be brought against Hillary Clinton and continue in an exhaustive investigation to trace back to every single person that had even the tiniest role in this unbelievable security compromise.

If the Attorney General, through “prosecutorial discretion,” elected not to prosecute this crime, I believe congress would have no alternative but to impeach her, and the FBI would then have no choice but to conduct a criminal investigation of her for a deliberate cover up –- so grave is this security violation.

If President Obama were to pardon Hillary Clinton for a compromise of this magnitude he would render himself in the historical record as an “enemy of the state,” and could himself face criminal prosecution –- so grave is such a security compromise. Nobody, not even the POTUS could gets away with something like this in our system of government.

If anyone could escape persecution for compromising a SAP, we are deep trouble as a nation. No president who loves this country and is true to his oath would ever allow anyone, not even his or her closest and most loved relative, to get away with a SAP compromise. It is simply unimaginable that this could ever happen.

If the ongoing investigation finds that Hillarååy Clinton compromised a SAP, then we all should know with certainty, regardless of political persuasion, that she is entirely unfit to hold public office of any kind let alone President of the USA — and ALL Americans should never tolerate it. Compromising a SAP is an absolute “disqualifier” for public office and access to our nations most sensitive information – period.

ED COET
Major, US Army (Retired)

P.S. It is my sincere hope that each of you will share this article, to help other Americans understand how grave Hillary Clinton’s alleged SAP compromise is. We can’t allow anyone so careless with this level of information to have access to any classified information ever again for as long as she lives. This would surely render her unqualified and unfit to hold any public office let alone POTUS if this allegation proves to be true.

Subject: Re: SAP Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:22 pm

Good information Dom. No one should be above the law. I'm still waiting for justice to be served with reference to GWB, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Subject: Re: SAP Wed Apr 06, 2016 7:57 am

There are many "ifs" and words of speculation. While the information is interesting and purportedly from an expert, the writer is careful to speculate which is the same technique used by Donald Trump when he said he doubted that the Enquirer article about Ted Cruse as an adulterer was true, but then, it was the Enquirer that was the first to reveal indiscretions that proved true - put the speculation out there for people to absorb in their sub conscious as "possibly true" and let them chew on it - a very practiced technique in the political arena of all politicians. There are multiple examples on both sides from "putting things out there" that are speculation from the birth certificate hoopla on.

I will also say that I support Hillary Clinton as the best prepared of all the candidates to be the President of the United States in this uncertain domestic and international climate where the dignity of all people in the United States is a critical sub text. All candidates are flawed and we only know what media reveals. I would rather debate the reality of what it is like to be the leader of the free world than the human errors people make.

Subject: Re: SAP Thu Apr 07, 2016 3:47 pm

Abe F. March wrote:: Good information Dom. No one should be above the law. I'm still waiting for justice to be served with reference to GWB, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Don't hold your breath!

Subject: Re: SAP Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:38 pm

DK. You have good insights. Rumors are often planted. People love hearing something negative especially about a high-profile person. Even when the information is false, there are people who will believe it because they want to believe it.
Alice, as for holding my breath, I don't have that much breath to hold. I don't expect that they will be brought to justice, however I don't want them to think that their evil deeds have been forgotten. There is always "hope" that justice will be served. If not, awareness may be a deterrent to a repetition of the same or similar criminal acts.
The on-going genocide in Palestine requires continued ane even more attention. This is real and must be stopped. Future generations will ask us: "Why didn't someone do something" or "Why didn't people speak out against the atrocities inflicted on the Palestinians by the Zionists?"
We may not be able to do anything directly, but we still have a voice and my voice will not be silenced until the Apartheid ends and the killing stops.

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