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USA TODAY: Secretary without honor
Secretary without honorPhillip Jennings 6:46 p.m. EDT June 5, 2016
When I hear people say Clinton emails don't matter, I remember a young Marine captain who owned up to his career-ruining mistake.
Apologists for Hillary Clinton’s alleged criminal mishandling of classified documents say that it doesn’t matter, that she really did nothing wrong, or nothing significant. But the real question is not so much what she did as how she has responded to being found out.
Once during the mid-1960s when I was on active duty in the Marine Corps, I was the air liaison officer for a battalion of Marines aboard 11 ships in the Mediterranean. As the air officer and a senior captain, I had a rotating responsibility for the nuclear code book, kept in the safe in the operations room of the lead amphibious squadron command ship. I shared that duty with another captain, a squared away young man, liked by all he commanded and the son of a very high-ranking Marine.
On the day our ships were leaving the Mediterranean, we met the new amphibious squadron near Gibraltar and made preparations to transfer security codes and other sensitive material to the incoming Marine battalion. The young captain was on duty and went to the operations office to pick up the code book. He was alone in the office. He removed the code book and placed it on the desk while closing the safe. In a rushed moment, he stepped across the passageway to retrieve something he needed from his quarters. Seconds later, he stepped back into the operations office and found the operations sergeant having just entered, looking down at the code book.
Against all regulations, the code book had been out of the safe and unattended. It mattered not that it was unattended for only seconds, that the ship was 5 miles at sea, or that it was certain no one unauthorized had seen the code. The captain could have explained this to the operations sergeant. He could have told the sergeant that he “would take care of it.” He could have hinted that his high-ranking dad could smooth it over.
But the Marine Corps’ values are honor, courage and commitment. Honor is the bedrock of our character. The young captain could not ask the sergeant to betray his duty to report the infraction, no matter how small. Instead, the captain simply said, “Let’s go see the colonel...”
SNIP (Please read the article to find out what happened to the young officer. I must edit it for fair use.)
...Clinton is the antithesis of that young captain, someone with no honor, little courage and commitment only to her endless ambition. This has nothing to do with gender, party affiliation, ideology or policy. It is a question of character — not just hers, but ours. Electing Clinton would mean abandoning holding people accountable for grievous errors of integrity and responsibility. What we already know about her security infractions should disqualify her for any government position that deals in information critical to mission success, domestic or foreign. But beyond that, her responses to being found out — dismissing its importance, claiming ignorance, blaming others — indict her beyond anything the investigation can reveal. Those elements reveal her character. And the saddest thing is that so many in America seem not to care.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/06/05/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-consequences-integrity-honesty-column/85205018/
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keep looking the other way, i guess it works for you
hehe, love promoting the type that says "those godamned commie pinko liberals" eh?
Fine. Who needs standards when gutter politics will do?
This is posted at the DU at 11pm
Upon googling for "phillip jennings usa today" to find out more about the author, hit #6 is the Free Republic, where the very same article is linked at 10:56pm.
Re-hinge yourself and read.
hit #6 is the Free Republic
Even a blind squirrel...
The GOP is going to annihilate her. As always, her acolytes will claim it's a rightwing conspiracy. The evidence has reached critical mass. The Bill Cosby Rule applies. With a plethora of accusations, you can be sure at least part of it is true. Ths figures in this graphic are sourced from filings. They are true. The GOP has their arsenal against Hillary. It is formidable and the damage her campaign sustains will be entirely self-inflicted. I'm going to pull up my lawn chair and watch the fireworks.
The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failure—at least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe. Yet, Phillip Jennings sets the record straight in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War. In this latest “P.I.G.”, Jennings shatters culturally-accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years. The Vietnam War was the most important—and successful—campaign to defeat Communism http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Vietnam-Guides/dp/1596985674/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389832268&sr=8-1&keywords=Politically+Incorrect+Guide+Vietnam+Guides
Shameless wingnut promotion to help your candidate?
glad to see consistency from the bern bros
for shame!
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