Ex-State Dept Advisor: Hillary’s ‘Sloppy Communications’ May Have Blown Counter-Terrorism Ops
Chris White of Law Newz Reports
Buried amid news coverage of the damning State Department Inspector General’s report is another explosive story that is certain to cause even more headaches for Hillary Clinton. A retired military advisor to the State Department has come out with claims that Clinton’s “sloppy communications with her senior staff” may have compromised counterterrorism operations in the Philippines.
Bill Johnson, the former State Department’s advisor to the Special Operations Command Pacific (SOCPAC), made these explosive allegations in an article published late on Wednesday by Newsweek. The report states “secret plans to eliminate the leader of a Filipino Islamist separatist group and intercept Chinese-made weapons components being smuggled into Iraq were repeatedly foiled.”
“I had several missions that went inexplicably wrong, with the targets one step ahead of us,” Johnson told Newsweek.
Johnson told the news magazine that after he and his team worked through all known possibilities to stop the leaks, including swapping out the local Filipino forces working with American units. However, the bad guys still managed to stay a step ahead. Johnson said another operation that was blown involved a terrorist cell that was buying advanced remote-controlled bomb devices from China. The terror cell was tipped off an avoided traveling though Bangkok where American agents were waiting to arrest them.
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Something similar happened in 2012, when Johnson’s team set up a trap for agents from the United Arab Emirates who were slated to purchase Chinese-made weapons in Bangkok — but again, “word of it leaked.”
Incidentally, Johnson has always suspected that Clinton’s atrociously poor communication habits were responsible for the endless leaks, though it wasn’t until 2010 that he first realized just how “sloppy” she really happened to be.
Because she lacked either a secure telephone number or email address, Johnson refused, as allowing her to use her personal phone in the secured facility would have triggered alarms and lockdowns. So instead she went outside and made the call there — on an open and completely unsecure line.
Talk about stupid.
Given what we now know about Clinton’s unethical and potentially illegal use of a private email address on a personal server, it seems clear as day that the reason Johnson’s operations kept being foiled were because of one and only one person: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
