Lead by Example & Equal Under the Law?
Good leaders model the right behavior for those under their leadership. Secretary Clinton stated under oath that she could not remember ever completing the required training on how to handle classified information.
This morning a 2013 Department of State IG report was released that shows only 14% of State Department employees completed the required training on how to handle classified information…86% had NOT completed the required training? See the quote below.
“Fewer than one in five employees with a security clearance at the State Department has completed the mandated training for handling classified information as required…”
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
AUD-SI-13-22
Office of Audits
March 2013
I agree with the comments made in a speech at Columbia University in 1981 by Admiral Hyman Rickover, Father of the U.S. Nuclear Navy. He spoke about the responsibility borne by those in charge (leaders) to know the details of their operations. He said that if the person in charge did not think the details were important, then neither would their staff.
ADM Rickover spoke to Columbia University: Columbia University School of Engineering on November 5 [1981].
“The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates. “
As indicated in the news item below, corruption seems the most plausible explanation for why the FBI would both grant immunity to Secretary Clinton’s closest aides who were also her attorneys and then also agree to destroy the aides’ laptops so that no other investigation would have access to the data. The corruption seems even clearer when you consider that after all the immunity and destruction of evidence the FBI did not even present Secretary Clinton’s case to a Grand Jury…and, of course, there was no indictment?
See the information below and Compare what Secretary Clinton and her staff did and how they were treated by the Justice Department to what President Nixon and his staff did and how they were treated by the Justice Department. Secretary Clinton's compromise of Top Secret, even Special Compartmented Information (SCI) on her illegal personal computer server (and her failure to provide security for her own State Department personnel, Ambassador Christopher Stevens (in Benghazi, Libya) that resulted in his and three other American’s deaths) was far more serious than the Republicans' Watergate break-in of the Democratic convention but the prosecution of President Nixon and his staff was far more aggressive (deserved).
The Watergate incident resulted in in 69 government officials (Republicans) charged with perjury, obstruction of justice, failure to comply with subpoenas and 48 found guilty --- served time in prison. [Compared to none of Secretary Clinton's staff]
“(EXAMINER) House Republicans are demanding to know why Justice Department officials entered into a pair of “side agreements” with Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson — two of Hillary Clinton’s top former aides who went on to become her personal attorneys during the FBI’s email investigation — that allowed law enforcement agents to destroy their laptops after searching their hard drives for evidence.” [ Retrieved from http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/hillary-aides-laptops-destroyed-in-doj-side-agreements/ ]
Sep 13, 2016
Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tech-experts-who-set-up-and-maintained-clintons-server-testify-before-congress/
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are keeping up their attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails -- they called for testimony from the tech expert who set up her private [email] server and representatives from the company that maintained the system. [None of these people had security clearances but accessed TS-SCI]
Bryan Pagliano, a former information resource management adviser at the State Department, was scheduled to appear Tuesday at a hearing before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, but he didn’t show up even though he was subpoenaed.
Pagliano spoke previously to the FBI under immunity, telling the bureau there were no successful security breaches of the server. But he said he was aware of many failed login attempts that he described as “brute force attacks.”
Pagliano refused to answer questions last year before a House panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. His lawyers said at the time that Pagliano did not want to relinquish his rights under the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination.
In contrast to the corrupt FBI investigation of Secretary Clinton's illegal personal email server used to handle, transmit and store Top Secret, even Special Compartmented Information (SCI), the Republicans were held to the legal standards we all expect.
See the summary (below) of the FBI and Justice department investigations, indictments and sentencing of the President Nixon Watergate criminals (Republican political operatives planted listening devices in the Democratic National Party Headquarters and attempted to use government resources to cover-up their crimes…no TS or SCI National Security information involved). [Summary below retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
There used to be consequences to following a corrupt leader but no so much in 2016?
Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell exhausted their appeals in 1977. Ehrlichman entered prison in 1976, followed by the other two in 1977. Since Nixon and many senior officials involved in Watergate were lawyers, the scandal severely tarnished the public image of the legal profession.
The Watergate scandal resulted in 69 government officials charged and 48 convicted, including
John N. Mitchell, Attorney General of the United States who resigned to become Director of Committee to Re-elect the President, convicted of perjury about his involvement in the Watergate break-in. Served 19 months of a one- to four-year sentence.
Richard Kleindienst, Attorney General, convicted of "refusing to answer questions" (contempt of court); given one month in jail.
Jeb Stuart Magruder, Deputy Director of Committee to Re-elect the President,[22] pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to the burglary, and was sentenced to 10 months to four years in prison, of which he served 7 months before being paroled.
Frederick C. LaRue, Advisor to John Mitchell, convicted of obstruction of justice. He served four and a half months.
H. R. Haldeman, Chief of Staff for Nixon, convicted of conspiracy to the burglary, obstruction of justice, and perjury. Served 18 months in prison.
John Ehrlichman, Counsel to Nixon, convicted of conspiracy to the burglary, obstruction of justice, and perjury. Served 18 months in prison.
Egil Krogh, aide to John Ehrlichman, sentenced to six months.
John W. Dean III, counsel to Nixon, convicted of obstruction of justice, later reduced to felony offenses and sentenced to time already served, which totaled 4 months.
Dwight L. Chapin, deputy assistant to Nixon, convicted of perjury.
Herbert W. Kalmbach, personal attorney to Nixon, convicted of illegal campaigning.
Charles W. Colson, special counsel to Nixon, convicted of obstruction of justice. Served 7 months in Federal Maxwell Prison.
Herbert L. Porter, aide to the Committee to Re-elect the President. Convicted of perjury.
... and the actual Watergate "Burglary" team:
G. Gordon Liddy, Special Investigations Group, convicted of masterminding the burglary, original sentence of up to 20 years in prison. Served 4½ years in federal prison.
E. Howard Hunt, Security consultant, convicted of masterminding and overseeing the burglary, original sentence of up to 35 years in prison. Served 33 months in prison.
James W. McCord Jr., convicted of six charges of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping. Served 2 months in prison.
Virgilio Gonzalez, convicted of burglary, original sentence of up to 40 years in prison. Served 13 months in prison.
Bernard Barker, convicted of burglary, original sentence of up to 40 years in prison. Served 18 months in prison.
Eugenio Martinez, convicted of burglary, original sentence of up to 40 years in prison. Served 15 months in prison.
Frank Sturgis, convicted of burglary, original sentence of up to 40 years in prison. Served 10 months in prison.
I do not disagree with the strong sentencing for those involved in the Watergate break-in and wiretap scandal BUT I do disagree with the total lack of any investigation of Secretary Clinton's mishandling (Breaking the law) of Top Secret, Special Compartmented Information (SCI) and the lack of any serious investigation (granting immunity and allowing obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence) of her key staff members and aides (Certainly not the "just treatment" that President Nixon and his staff got (Summary above)? Some of the highly classified emails have been recovered through the Congressional investigation of Secretary Clinton's failure to provide adequate security for Ambassador Stevens and staff in Benghazi Libya which cost the lives of AMB Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and two CIA operatives, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, both former Navy SEALs. The cover up of what led up to the Benghazi terrorrists attack was intended to hide the Obama Administration foreign policy failures in Libya just prior to the 2012 presidential election...it seems to have worked? Perhaps we can soon return America to the rule of law and leadership by example.
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