Defense-in-depth and the layered approach to border security sounds good in theory, but there are real-world negative impacts for the American citizens who live at or near the border.
Martha McSally
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Martha McSally is a Republican politician from Arizona who served as a U.S. Senator from 2019 to 2020. She was the first woman to fly in combat for the U.S. Air Force and has a notable military background. McSally was elected to the House of Representatives in 2014, representing Arizona's 2nd congressional district, where she focused on issues such as national security and veterans' affairs. During her time in the Senate, she continued to advocate for military and defense issues, as well as border security and immigration reform.
Would they even get an interview if they have had a security violation to the nature of what Secretary Clinton did?
If an airman in the Air Force had conducted behavior similar to Secretary Clinton's, I am confident, at a minimum, they would lose their clearance.
But if there is markings, you either are making a marking on an Unclassified system of a Classified nature, which is disturbing in and of itself, or you are physically moving it electronically.
Within the FBI, under your leadership, let's say your chief of staff or your deputy director mishandled Classified information in the same way that you know about, what would be the security and administrative consequences that you would…
To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences.
I mean this seems like a gaping hole. We have done better sharing information across Federal agencies, but where we are really missing is Federal down to State and local, and then with the private sector is the real gaping hole.
So this is still a problem. If our whole model is based on them identifying high risk, and we are still somewhere in, you know, less than 50 percent being correctly identified, then that is still a problem.
But their whole briefing and everything yesterday was based on them identifying high threat, high risk.
So if I hear you, I mean, Russia is a concern now due to lack of cooperation, mostly, lack of insight into what is really going on, whether there is positive control or not. Is that fair?
We know that terrorist organizations, in my lifetime, in 26 years in the military, have been plotting and wanting to do the maximum amount of harm to our country and our way of life and our interests.
It only takes one person with bad intentions, you know, to be a risk to public safety and National security.
So is there any feedback loop from this report to DHS and the State Department?
I think at some point, you know, quantity has a quality all of its own when you are talking about the magnitude of individuals.
Will next year's report include visa overstay information on students as well?
I am concerned that there are unidentified National security and public safety risks in a population that large.





