Hillary Clinton National Security Essay

At the annual CPAC hosted by the American Conservative Union in National Harbor, MD, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton attacked Hillary Clinton, calling her “a threat to national security.” Bolton said, “Hillary Clinton is a threat to national security roughly equivalent to Barack Obama. And the greatest proof of that threat is her utter, total disdain for the protection of classified information entrusted to her as secretary of state. If she doesn’t have the wit to protect her own emails, how can we expect her to protect us? We had a dramatic development in the ongoing criminal investigation in the email problem, the granting of immunity to a low ranking State Department person who set up the email server. This demonstrates …show more content…
The bureau was the center for energy for diplomacy and energy security issues within the State Department. Staff members weren’t following official policy to keep government-owned and personal electronic devices at least 10 feet away from classified processing equipment, and they weren’t making sure that all devices’ camera lenses were closed. Employees also have no end-of-day security check procedures, and the bureau’s records management program for preserving emails and other documents doesn’t comply with State Department regulations. Officials have thus far deemed more than 1,300 emails Clinton kept on her home-brew email server as classified, including two dozen that were either Top Secret or Top Secret-Special Access Program. When Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton took office, they did not take national security seriously. National and White House security were not priorities for them. Because of an obvious disregard for