Open and Notorious Criminal Activity

Clinton's speeches: Criminal disclosure of classified information

Open and Notorious Criminal Activity

By Mike Ford

“Open and Notorious” is defined as—Known by the public, and at odds with the community’s accepted moral values. Wikileaks has released some transcripts from some of Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches to various business leaders that I believe qualify as “open and notorious” criminal acts. The linked transcript contains several highlighted segments which I believe might contain classified information/analysis. As a former senior officer in the United States Army, I am very concerned that she may have disclosed some very sensitive and likely highly classified information. Here is a sample:

One of the biggest concerns I had over the last four years was the concern that was manifested several different ways that the PLA, the People’s Liberation Army, was acting somewhat independently; that it wasn’t just a good cop/bad cop routine when we would see some of the moves and some of the rhetoric coming out of the PLA, but that in effect that were making some foreign policy.  And Hu Jintao, unlike Jiang Zemin before him, never really captured the authority over the PLA that is essential for any government, whether it’s a civilian government in our country or a communist party government in China.


  So President Xi is doing much more to try to assert his authority, and I think that is also good news.
If the above had been written by a political analyst working from say, American Thinker or the Washington Post, there would be no problem. In this case, the “analysis” was delivered by a former Secretary of State and almost certainly based on intelligence received from undercover assets and classified analysis from the Central Intelligence Agency. Because of the source of the base information and the seniority of the “analyst,” in this case,a former Secretary of State, this would appear to be on its face, highly classified information—delivered to business leaders who I must assume, don’t have clearance to receive it.

It’s important to note that some people can use certain words, terms and phrases in public discourse (like Tom Clancy and his Jack Ryan novels). However, when “officials of the United States government, presumed to have actual knowledge of certain capabilities, activities and programs” make those same statements, those statements constitute a criminal disclosure of classified information. Mrs Clinton’s speeches to business leaders, in her unbridled effort to monetize her husband’s service as POTUS and her own less than stellar performance as Secretary of State and get a head start on her lifelong ambition to become the first female President, have likely constituted criminal disclosure of classified information. But, as I have shown in an earlier article, this ain’t the first time.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/hillarys_email_its_a_felony.html