HYSTERIA

Can we have some facts before we dissolve into a puddle?

Every day brings a new charge against Donald Trump.  All these shots that lack a base in fact...are shots at the back of America's  President.  This rapid fire is destructive to the fabric of our country.

Our National Security Advisor says the President did not give classified information to the Russians.  But do you know who DID give classified information...to the world?

Do you know this man?  His name is Dr. Shakeel Afridi and he is the Pakistani doctor who helped us find Osama bin Laden.

On his Wiki page, you read that it was Leon Panetta (then CIA chief) who outed him.  Panetta was not in a private conversation with a foreign emissary when this information came out.  Panetta revealed his news  to the entire world on 60 Minutes.

As a result, since 2012 the doctor has been in a Pakistani prison with a 33-year sentence and is reportedly tortured daily.  Ask Dr. Afridi about the damage resulting from the sharing of classified information.

Then there was the famous "Uncle Joe" blurb.  Two days after bin Laden's death (on May 3, 2011 at a Washington event) our former Vice President did an unthinkable thing when he publicly revealed the identity of the special ops unit responsible for bin Laden's kill.  Please read this important LINK.

Considering the subsequent ambush and death of the Seal Team 6 on August 6, 2011...the release of that information for any reason (but particularly just to "spike the ball") is sickening.

In less spectacular ways, the last administration chose to reveal classified information.

They talked about interrogation methods used on terrorists LINK.  They exposed Israeli intelligence partners as they claimed credit for the Stuxnet virus which attacked Iran's nuclear program beginning in 2009 LINK (then the former President pardoned the Student leaker just as he pardoned the WikiLeaker, Chelsey Manning).  They ordered the intelligence community to share information with the Cubans LINK.

And, of course, there was Mother-of-all-Disclosers who exposed thousands of classified documents because she was determined to have her own unaccountable server.  Then she got hacked through a phishing expedition which fooled John Pedestal into clicking on a link.

Who would have ever thought classified information would end up on a pedophile's laptop?  That gave all of us a good look inside the reality that was the slow train wreck that perpetually accompanies the Clintons.  Just look at all the reputations (think James Comey/Loretta Lynch) that have been destroyed by associating with the former first couple.

Hysteria is the emotion of the day as people salivate over impeachment and work with gusto to make it happen.  But people are hysterical because the news outlets bang a drum daily that misleads the American public.  We are not in a contest to see who can reveal the most intelligence, but IF the press were concerned about leaks, they might have reported the egregious ones in the last administration.  Those leaks cost us the trust of our allies and actual lives.

Keeping classified information close to the vest keeps the country safe.   There is a Romans verse which, in context, is speaking to the body of believers.  But it sure could come in handy now in our national life.  It says "Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification".

Let's put America first.