By Hubie and Bertie
We cats are highly qualified, trustworthy and patriotic, but we've never had clearance to read top-secret government documents. That doesn't make us bad — it just means that this morning, we've been searching for folks who did have that privilege. We wanted to see their reactions to last night's DOJ filing against Benedict Donald.
We think that Ken Harbaugh, former Navy pilot and Democratic candidate for OH-07 in 2018, has probably said it best. (More from us later.) We cats PURR.
"I remember the feeling of having a TS/SCI brief in my hands. The first few times, I was nervous. If I f--ked up, even accidentally, I would go to jail. My combat recon aircrew handled this kind of material almost every day on our deployments. Every time we used one of these documents in a briefing or planning session, the room got quiet.
"There was a palpable seriousness in the air, bordering on solemnity. Some of us understood what had gone into generating this information — the resources, the risks. We knew that our efforts would soon inform reports with these same covers, and we trusted that the people holding them would feel their weight.
"To see them treated like this makes my stomach turn. It is an affront to every American in uniform, every covert operative, every member of the State Department. And it should be an affront to every American who cares about our national security, and the men and women who put their lives at risk to defend it.
"But this isn't just an affront. It's a crime."
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