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 than
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 get 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 nation’s most sensitive information - period.
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.
ED COET, Major, US Army (Retired)
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