Apparently, Hillary never heard that loose lips sink ships.
And Hillary’s campaign was so proud of her, they tweeted the info, too:
When the president gives the order to launch a nuclear weapon, that’s it. The officer has to launch. It can take as little as four minutes.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 20, 2016
But Donald Trump is dangerous?
Got it.
Via Free Beacon.
CNN’s Barbara Starr reported Thursday that the U.S. military is unhappy with Hillary Clinton discussing nuclear weapon launch times during Wednesday night’s presidential debate, calling such information “extremely classified.”….
Starr reported that the Pentagon would not officially comment on Clinton’s remarks since they occurred during a political campaign. However, many officials who spoke to Starr off-camera said they were not happy with Clinton’s comments due to the secure nature of what she was discussing.
“We went to the military this morning and asked them. A military spokesman told us that they do not discuss operational timelines for launching nuclear weapons,” Starr said. “This is some of the most classified information. I asked Defense Secretary Ash Carter at a press conference earlier today. He declined to answer the question because it involved politics.”
“Is it really classified? There’s a lot of open-source information about, you know, publicly available information on the internet about what is involved in launching nuclear weapons, and when we asked the Clinton campaign, they sent us a number of citations of that publicly available information,” Starr said.
“But here is the bottom line: the U.S. military does not discuss the precise specifics of the time frames of launching nuclear weapons that, by all accounts, is extremely classified,” Starr continued. “And if you know information to be classified and you’re a government official, even if it’s in the open source, even if it’s on the internet, you are not supposed to disclose it.”….
@Snopes says Hillary did not say nuclear launch times were 4 mins during the last debate. #Snopes = Propaganda https://t.co/1UJRCjeYNH
— Denis (@BMOC98) October 21, 2016
Four Minute Launch? #Putin #Debate #ImWithHer pic.twitter.com/QKGumM6LaH
— 365conservative (@365conservative) October 20, 2016
Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Hillary Clinton’s Disclosure of Nuclear Response Times During Debate Was ‘Unconscionable’
When I heard her say this Weds night… I thought, Whoa!!!! This is more reckless disregard for National Security. She says Trump can’t be trusted with keys to the football, what about this clown?
Fortunately for us, she has zero credibility with foreign leaders, so they probably laughed it off saying “Oh that Hillary Clinton. There she goes again blabbering (i.e. lying) about something of which she knows little.
As I recall, Trump was criticized for questioning information provided in the classified briefings. Is media treating this even equally? A questioner is far preferable to a gabber.