Submitted by: John Rolls
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 Hillary
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)
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