I’ve helpfully dug out their brilliant insights:
“Extreme carelessness with classified material … is still totally disqualifying.”
— Donald Trump, July 11, 2016
“It’s simple: Individuals who are ‘extremely careless’ w/ classified info should be denied further access to it.”
— House Speaker Paul Ryan, tweet, July 7, 2016
“The security clearance of any officer or employee of the federal government who has exercised extreme carelessness in the handling of classified information shall be revoked.” — Senate Bill 3135, co-sponsored last year (to shame Hillary Clinton) by
16 Republican senators: Cory Gardner, John Cornyn, Shelley Moore Capito, Tim Scott, James Risch, Pat Roberts, Dean Heller, Kelly Ayotte, John Barrasso, David Perdue, Johnny Isakson, Thom Tillis, John Thune, David Vitter, Mike Rounds and James Inhofe
“Those who mishandled classified info have had their sec clearances revoked, lost their jobs, faced fines, & even been sent to prison.”
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… It is self-evident to us all, I hope, that we cannot overlook, dismiss or diminish the obstruction
of justice by the very person we charge with taking care that the laws are faithfully executed.”
— Senator John McCain, Feb. 12, 1999, in voting to convict President Clinton in his impeachment trial
“By his words and deeds, he had done great harm to the notions of honesty and integrity that form the underpinnings of this great republic.