{"id":31178,"date":"2017-07-10T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31178"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:43:00","slug":"we-need-leaders-who-respect-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31178","title":{"rendered":"We Need Leaders Who Respect National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/07\/09\/7061070\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart.com<\/a> posted an article yesterday about memos written by former <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Director_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">FBI Director<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"James Comey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">James Comey<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/341225-comeys-private-memos-on-trump-conversations-contained-classified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a> also posted a similar article yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>More than half of the memos former FBI Director\u00a0James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Trump<\/a> about the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=55.75,37.6166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=55.75,37.6166666667 (Russia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Russia<\/a> investigation have been determined to contain <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Classified information\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classified_information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">classified information<\/a>, according to interviews with officials familiar with the documents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>This revelation raises the possibility that Comey broke his own agency\u2019s rules and ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\" data-nid=\"188224\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span> for in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Breitbart reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201c<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.895216,-77.025131&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.895216,-77.025131 (Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">FBI<\/a> policy forbids any agent from releasing classified information or any information from ongoing investigations or sensitive operations without prior written permission, and mandates that all records created during official duties are considered to be government property,\u201d the report said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Comey admitted to senators last month that he leaked at least one memo to his friend Daniel Richman, a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Columbia Law School\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.8069444444,-73.9602777778&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=40.8069444444,-73.9602777778 (Columbia%20Law%20School)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Columbia Law School<\/a> professor and former prosecutor so that he could leak them to the <em><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorktimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Was there anyone in the Obama Administration who believed in playing by the rules that you and I would have to follow?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart.com posted an article yesterday about memos written by former FBI Director James Comey. The Hill also posted a similar article yesterday. The Hill reported: More than half of the memos former FBI Director\u00a0James Comey wrote as personal recollections of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,3357,420,1457,10095,8558],"class_list":["post-31178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31179,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31178\/revisions\/31179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}