RallyPoint Shared Content 890348 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>From: The Daily Beast<br /><br />No matter how much classified material is found in her personal email server, Hillary Clinton will no doubt continue campaigning to become our next president.<br /><br />Meanwhile, a decorated Marine officer who has deployed four times faces being discharged from the corps he loves because he used his personal email to send a single classified report as an urgent warning when lives were at stake.<br /><br />The stateside message from Marine Reserves Major Jason Brezler to Forward Operating Base Delhi in Now Zad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, went unheeded. Three young Marines were shot to death as they worked out in a gym by an Afghan teen brought on the base by the same corrupt and double-dealing pedophile police chief whom Brezler had declared to be an immediate threat.<br /><br />Yet the only person to be investigated in connection with the killings is Brezler, the Marine who sought to prevent them.<br /><br />To compound the injustice, the two generals who ruled against Brezler based their decision on a Board of Inquiry transcript whose 451 pages contain 1,548 sections marked “[inaudible].” And those gaps are accompanied by an astonishing number of errors.<br /><br />One witness who was critical to the defense reported that he found 47 mistakes in his testimony and could have found more but the “incredible number of ‘inaudible’ and outright errors was so great that I did not correct ones where I had no idea what was said exactly.”<br /><br />Other witnesses said much the same, with one declaring himself “disgusted with the transcript,” adding that the “record is so bad I can barely make out what I was saying and it’s my testimony.”<br /><br />Brezler’s last hope is that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will set the decision aside. Mabus certainly has considerable reason to do so beyond the rank injustice of the proceedings.<br /><br />Brezler, a Naval Academy graduate who went from serving in the most dangerous province in Iraq to serving in the most dangerous province in Afghanistan, left active duty to continue public service as a Marine reservist and as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department’s elite Rescue 2.<br /><br />He also continued his education. He was in a graduate school class on July 25, 2012, with his laptop open when he received an email in his Yahoo account from Marine Major Andrew Terrell. Brezler had served with Terrell at FOB Delhi in 2010.<br /><br />“IMPORTANT: SARWAR JAN IS BACK!!!” the subject line read.<br /><br />Jan had been a district police chief of the very worst sort. Brezler and Terrell had determined that Jan was involved in narcotics and arms trafficking, as well as facilitating attacks by the Taliban, even selling Afghan police uniforms to the enemy.<br /><br />Jan also was alleged to be what Brezler’s lawyer would later call “a systematic child rapist” who allegedly ran a child kidnapping ring and acquired “chai boys” with the help of U.S. taxpayer job development money.<br /><br />As the protégé of an accused drug lord with connections to then-Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Jan might have imagined himself untouchable. But Brezler and Terrell kept pushing and were finally able to pressure the provincial governor into removing Jan from his post, a rare and notable bright spot in the bloodiest province in the bloodiest year of the war.<br /><br />Now here was that name in the subject line.<br /><br />“My reaction was visceral, and just seeing his name brought me great concern,” Brezler later testified.<br /><br />The accompanying message from Terrell read, “Jason, I just got an email from one of my friends in Afghanistan; he just met Sarwar Jan. He is looking for anything we have on him. Do you still have that paper Larissa wrote on this guy in Now Zad? It could be very helpful. Anything you can think of would be useful. Thanks brother, Andrew.”<br /><br />Larissa Mihalisko was a Marine intelligence officer who had prepared a report on Jan with information provided by Brezler and Terrell. Brezler had kept a copy along with other necessary operation reports on the personal laptop he used in the war zone, the Marines not having provided him one.<br /><br />Now, in the moments after he received the urgent message from Terrell, Brezler decided it was great luck that he had downloaded the hard drive from that laptop onto his new one.<br /><br />“I immediately typed ‘search’ and ‘Sarwar Jan’ and uploaded the document,” he would recall in court papers.<br /><br />In the next instant, he sent the report to the email address that Terrell had provided for another Marine in Afghanistan. He gave no thought to the document’s classification.<br /><br />“I just reacted the same way that I would in a gunfight; the same way I would at a fire,” he said in the court papers. “I just immediately reacted.”<br /><br />Brezler asked the Marine in Afghanistan to confirm that he received the message.<br /><br />Brezler got no response and emailed him again. The Marine responded, saying Brezler had sent him a classified document via a private civilian account on an unsecured server.<br /><br />“I had it on a hard drive from Now Zad and it was the only way to get it to you,” Brezler emailed back. “Andy said you need it.”<br /><br />Brezler knew the document had been classified, but he figured that had likely changed with the passage of time. And he was only passing on to a fellow Marine what he and Terrell had reported in the first place.<br /><br />But he could tell that the other Marine was taking it as a breach of security.<br /><br />Brezler had still been in class during all this. He continued to live by the Naval Academy honor code, and he used the lunch break to call a Marine higher-up to report himself.<br /><br />“I got his voice mail and went back to class,” Brezler later testified. “The next break, I reached out to him again.”<br /><br />The higher-up answered and a series of notifications followed. Brezler made no excuses.<br /><br />Two weeks later, Brezler got another message, this from the intelligence officer who had helped prepare the report, Mihalisko.<br /><br />“Sarwar Jan strikes again,” this subject line read.<br /><br />The message reported: “Tragic story for you. Sarwar Jan…brought 9—yes count it NINE—chai boys (excuse me personal servants) with him. One of them decided to go nuts and killed a bunch of Marines yesterday.”<br /><br />Brezler spoke again to the higher-up.<br /><br />“My own worst fears have come to fruition,” Brezler said, according to court papers.<br /><br />“I guess you were right,” the higher-up replied.<br /><br />Brezler was reprimanded for the security breach. And it all might have ended there had he not learned that the families of the three murdered Marines—Staff Sergeant Scott Dickinson, Corporal Richard Rivera Jr., and Lance Corporal Gregory Buckley Jr.—were having difficulty getting the full story behind the killings.<br /><br />Brezler sought the advice of a retired FDNY firefighter who had lost two sons in the 9/11 attacks. The firefighter put him in touch with Representative Peter King (R-NY). Word also reached The Marine Corps Times.<br /><br />Suddenly, some of the Marine brass decided that a reprimand was not enough. Brezler could not help but notice that nobody was being investigated for failing to act on the report itself.<br /><br />“I do not know, and cannot understand, how Jan was ever permitted to operate again with, in proximity to, Marine forces, let alone assume a command on a Marine FOB with an entourage of chai boys,” Brezler said in court papers. “Had senior Marine commanders paid attention to the dossier we prepared when we expelled Jan from Now Zad, or the Marine commanders responsible for FOB Delhi acted on the warning I sent in response to their urgent request, I believe the Marines murdered on FOB Delhi would be alive today.”<br /><br />Brezler continued, “Nevertheless, no Marine commanders were ever disciplined for allowing Jan to assume a command on FOB Delhi, allowing him to bring an entourage of chai boys onto FOB Delhi, or failing to take any steps to protect Marines on FOB Delhi from the danger Jan posed. The Marine Corps did not even commence an investigation into the murders and the failures that allowed the murders to occur.”<br /><br />He went on, “Not only did the Marine Corps not investigate or discipline anyone in response to the murders, I learned in 2013 that they were refusing to provide the families of the murdered Marines with the information and disclosure which they requested and to which they were legally entitled.”<br /><br />What the Marines did do was seek to drive Brezler from the corps. He had voluntarily turned over his laptop, and much was made of several other classified documents from his Afghanistan days. None of the documents had been opened since being downloaded onto the new hard drive along with everything else on the old one. He had not even been aware they were there.<br /><br />The Board of Inquiry was held from December 17-19, 2014. Six Marines who had served in combat with Brezler testified regarding his qualities as an officer when things mattered most.<br /><br />“One of the finest officers I’ve ever worked with… I would be happy to have my son in Jason’s unit… He is that sort of officer that takes care of his Marines and takes care of the mission… Working with him in that environment, I would trust him. I would trust him with my life.”<br /><br />A number of Marines also testified on his behalf with regard to the particulars of the case. But the recording sounds like a wiretap. The many places in the transcript marked [unintelligible] were joined by so many errors that critical passages made little sense.<br /><br />In a subsequent affidavit, Terrell said he was all the more surprised because “not once during the preceding was I told… that something I said was not understandable and asked to repeat myself.” He contrasted what was in the transcript with what he had actually said about the Jan report.<br /><br />His actual words: “Because I didn’t even recall it being classified, so if I thought it was unclassified, then anything more than that would be ‘overclassified.’ I remembered some of the content of it. It was historical and didn’t contain source information. Most of the sources were Major Brezler and I.”<br /><br />The transcript: “Because I didn’t even recall it being classified so if [inaudible] I remembered some of the content of it [inaudible..]”<br /><br />Other defense witnesses submitted similar affidavits. The transcript of Brezler’s own testimony proved no better.<br /><br />At one point the Marines provided a second, “corrected” transcript of the hearing.<br /><br />“This second ‘verbatim transcript’ also contains hundreds of omitted sections designated as ‘inaudible,’ many hundreds more missing with no designation, and hundreds still that are plainly wrong, nonsensical, or hopelessly garbled,” say court papers filed by Brezler’s lawyer, Kevin Carroll of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan, which has taken on the case pro bono.<br /><br />As neither of the two generals who made the ultimate determination to discharge Brezler was present at the hearing, they could only base their deliberations on this woeful transcript.<br /><br />Their willingness to make a decision anyway added to suspicions that the outcome was already decided. Brezler’s lawyer argued that the Marines were seeking to punish a whistleblower.<br /><br />Maybe Navy Secretary Mabus will see that and do the right thing.<br /><br />All he really needs to do is look at that transcript, which no fair judge would accept.<br /><br />In a twist, the intelligence officer who prepared the Jan report left the Marines and went to work for the State Department. Imagine if one of her reports for her new job is found in the email of former Secretary of State Clinton.<br /><br />Brezler has continued to serve with distinction as a member of Rescue 2 of the FDNY. A retired firefighter named Jimmy Boyle ran into him the other day and called out a question many are asking.<br /><br />“Hey, Jason, what did you do that Hillary didn’t?”<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/14/hero-marine-nailed-for-sending-classified-report-from-personal-email.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/14/hero-marine-nailed-for-sending-classified-report-from-personal-email.html</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/019/959/qrc/1439529584565.cached.jpg?1443051451"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/14/hero-marine-nailed-for-sending-classified-report-from-personal-email.html">Hero Marine Nailed for Secret Email: What Did He Do That Hillary Didn’t?</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">Hillary Clinton could still become president after her email scandal, but a decorated Marine is being forced out over one classified report he sent to avert a disaster.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> 2015-08-14T16:15:34-04:00 RallyPoint Shared Content 890348

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>From: The Daily Beast<br /><br />No matter how much classified material is found in her personal email server, Hillary Clinton will no doubt continue campaigning to become our next president.<br /><br />Meanwhile, a decorated Marine officer who has deployed four times faces being discharged from the corps he loves because he used his personal email to send a single classified report as an urgent warning when lives were at stake.<br /><br />The stateside message from Marine Reserves Major Jason Brezler to Forward Operating Base Delhi in Now Zad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, went unheeded. Three young Marines were shot to death as they worked out in a gym by an Afghan teen brought on the base by the same corrupt and double-dealing pedophile police chief whom Brezler had declared to be an immediate threat.<br /><br />Yet the only person to be investigated in connection with the killings is Brezler, the Marine who sought to prevent them.<br /><br />To compound the injustice, the two generals who ruled against Brezler based their decision on a Board of Inquiry transcript whose 451 pages contain 1,548 sections marked “[inaudible].” And those gaps are accompanied by an astonishing number of errors.<br /><br />One witness who was critical to the defense reported that he found 47 mistakes in his testimony and could have found more but the “incredible number of ‘inaudible’ and outright errors was so great that I did not correct ones where I had no idea what was said exactly.”<br /><br />Other witnesses said much the same, with one declaring himself “disgusted with the transcript,” adding that the “record is so bad I can barely make out what I was saying and it’s my testimony.”<br /><br />Brezler’s last hope is that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will set the decision aside. Mabus certainly has considerable reason to do so beyond the rank injustice of the proceedings.<br /><br />Brezler, a Naval Academy graduate who went from serving in the most dangerous province in Iraq to serving in the most dangerous province in Afghanistan, left active duty to continue public service as a Marine reservist and as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department’s elite Rescue 2.<br /><br />He also continued his education. He was in a graduate school class on July 25, 2012, with his laptop open when he received an email in his Yahoo account from Marine Major Andrew Terrell. Brezler had served with Terrell at FOB Delhi in 2010.<br /><br />“IMPORTANT: SARWAR JAN IS BACK!!!” the subject line read.<br /><br />Jan had been a district police chief of the very worst sort. Brezler and Terrell had determined that Jan was involved in narcotics and arms trafficking, as well as facilitating attacks by the Taliban, even selling Afghan police uniforms to the enemy.<br /><br />Jan also was alleged to be what Brezler’s lawyer would later call “a systematic child rapist” who allegedly ran a child kidnapping ring and acquired “chai boys” with the help of U.S. taxpayer job development money.<br /><br />As the protégé of an accused drug lord with connections to then-Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Jan might have imagined himself untouchable. But Brezler and Terrell kept pushing and were finally able to pressure the provincial governor into removing Jan from his post, a rare and notable bright spot in the bloodiest province in the bloodiest year of the war.<br /><br />Now here was that name in the subject line.<br /><br />“My reaction was visceral, and just seeing his name brought me great concern,” Brezler later testified.<br /><br />The accompanying message from Terrell read, “Jason, I just got an email from one of my friends in Afghanistan; he just met Sarwar Jan. He is looking for anything we have on him. Do you still have that paper Larissa wrote on this guy in Now Zad? It could be very helpful. Anything you can think of would be useful. Thanks brother, Andrew.”<br /><br />Larissa Mihalisko was a Marine intelligence officer who had prepared a report on Jan with information provided by Brezler and Terrell. Brezler had kept a copy along with other necessary operation reports on the personal laptop he used in the war zone, the Marines not having provided him one.<br /><br />Now, in the moments after he received the urgent message from Terrell, Brezler decided it was great luck that he had downloaded the hard drive from that laptop onto his new one.<br /><br />“I immediately typed ‘search’ and ‘Sarwar Jan’ and uploaded the document,” he would recall in court papers.<br /><br />In the next instant, he sent the report to the email address that Terrell had provided for another Marine in Afghanistan. He gave no thought to the document’s classification.<br /><br />“I just reacted the same way that I would in a gunfight; the same way I would at a fire,” he said in the court papers. “I just immediately reacted.”<br /><br />Brezler asked the Marine in Afghanistan to confirm that he received the message.<br /><br />Brezler got no response and emailed him again. The Marine responded, saying Brezler had sent him a classified document via a private civilian account on an unsecured server.<br /><br />“I had it on a hard drive from Now Zad and it was the only way to get it to you,” Brezler emailed back. “Andy said you need it.”<br /><br />Brezler knew the document had been classified, but he figured that had likely changed with the passage of time. And he was only passing on to a fellow Marine what he and Terrell had reported in the first place.<br /><br />But he could tell that the other Marine was taking it as a breach of security.<br /><br />Brezler had still been in class during all this. He continued to live by the Naval Academy honor code, and he used the lunch break to call a Marine higher-up to report himself.<br /><br />“I got his voice mail and went back to class,” Brezler later testified. “The next break, I reached out to him again.”<br /><br />The higher-up answered and a series of notifications followed. Brezler made no excuses.<br /><br />Two weeks later, Brezler got another message, this from the intelligence officer who had helped prepare the report, Mihalisko.<br /><br />“Sarwar Jan strikes again,” this subject line read.<br /><br />The message reported: “Tragic story for you. Sarwar Jan…brought 9—yes count it NINE—chai boys (excuse me personal servants) with him. One of them decided to go nuts and killed a bunch of Marines yesterday.”<br /><br />Brezler spoke again to the higher-up.<br /><br />“My own worst fears have come to fruition,” Brezler said, according to court papers.<br /><br />“I guess you were right,” the higher-up replied.<br /><br />Brezler was reprimanded for the security breach. And it all might have ended there had he not learned that the families of the three murdered Marines—Staff Sergeant Scott Dickinson, Corporal Richard Rivera Jr., and Lance Corporal Gregory Buckley Jr.—were having difficulty getting the full story behind the killings.<br /><br />Brezler sought the advice of a retired FDNY firefighter who had lost two sons in the 9/11 attacks. The firefighter put him in touch with Representative Peter King (R-NY). Word also reached The Marine Corps Times.<br /><br />Suddenly, some of the Marine brass decided that a reprimand was not enough. Brezler could not help but notice that nobody was being investigated for failing to act on the report itself.<br /><br />“I do not know, and cannot understand, how Jan was ever permitted to operate again with, in proximity to, Marine forces, let alone assume a command on a Marine FOB with an entourage of chai boys,” Brezler said in court papers. “Had senior Marine commanders paid attention to the dossier we prepared when we expelled Jan from Now Zad, or the Marine commanders responsible for FOB Delhi acted on the warning I sent in response to their urgent request, I believe the Marines murdered on FOB Delhi would be alive today.”<br /><br />Brezler continued, “Nevertheless, no Marine commanders were ever disciplined for allowing Jan to assume a command on FOB Delhi, allowing him to bring an entourage of chai boys onto FOB Delhi, or failing to take any steps to protect Marines on FOB Delhi from the danger Jan posed. The Marine Corps did not even commence an investigation into the murders and the failures that allowed the murders to occur.”<br /><br />He went on, “Not only did the Marine Corps not investigate or discipline anyone in response to the murders, I learned in 2013 that they were refusing to provide the families of the murdered Marines with the information and disclosure which they requested and to which they were legally entitled.”<br /><br />What the Marines did do was seek to drive Brezler from the corps. He had voluntarily turned over his laptop, and much was made of several other classified documents from his Afghanistan days. None of the documents had been opened since being downloaded onto the new hard drive along with everything else on the old one. He had not even been aware they were there.<br /><br />The Board of Inquiry was held from December 17-19, 2014. Six Marines who had served in combat with Brezler testified regarding his qualities as an officer when things mattered most.<br /><br />“One of the finest officers I’ve ever worked with… I would be happy to have my son in Jason’s unit… He is that sort of officer that takes care of his Marines and takes care of the mission… Working with him in that environment, I would trust him. I would trust him with my life.”<br /><br />A number of Marines also testified on his behalf with regard to the particulars of the case. But the recording sounds like a wiretap. The many places in the transcript marked [unintelligible] were joined by so many errors that critical passages made little sense.<br /><br />In a subsequent affidavit, Terrell said he was all the more surprised because “not once during the preceding was I told… that something I said was not understandable and asked to repeat myself.” He contrasted what was in the transcript with what he had actually said about the Jan report.<br /><br />His actual words: “Because I didn’t even recall it being classified, so if I thought it was unclassified, then anything more than that would be ‘overclassified.’ I remembered some of the content of it. It was historical and didn’t contain source information. Most of the sources were Major Brezler and I.”<br /><br />The transcript: “Because I didn’t even recall it being classified so if [inaudible] I remembered some of the content of it [inaudible..]”<br /><br />Other defense witnesses submitted similar affidavits. The transcript of Brezler’s own testimony proved no better.<br /><br />At one point the Marines provided a second, “corrected” transcript of the hearing.<br /><br />“This second ‘verbatim transcript’ also contains hundreds of omitted sections designated as ‘inaudible,’ many hundreds more missing with no designation, and hundreds still that are plainly wrong, nonsensical, or hopelessly garbled,” say court papers filed by Brezler’s lawyer, Kevin Carroll of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan, which has taken on the case pro bono.<br /><br />As neither of the two generals who made the ultimate determination to discharge Brezler was present at the hearing, they could only base their deliberations on this woeful transcript.<br /><br />Their willingness to make a decision anyway added to suspicions that the outcome was already decided. Brezler’s lawyer argued that the Marines were seeking to punish a whistleblower.<br /><br />Maybe Navy Secretary Mabus will see that and do the right thing.<br /><br />All he really needs to do is look at that transcript, which no fair judge would accept.<br /><br />In a twist, the intelligence officer who prepared the Jan report left the Marines and went to work for the State Department. Imagine if one of her reports for her new job is found in the email of former Secretary of State Clinton.<br /><br />Brezler has continued to serve with distinction as a member of Rescue 2 of the FDNY. A retired firefighter named Jimmy Boyle ran into him the other day and called out a question many are asking.<br /><br />“Hey, Jason, what did you do that Hillary didn’t?”<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/14/hero-marine-nailed-for-sending-classified-report-from-personal-email.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/14/hero-marine-nailed-for-sending-classified-report-from-personal-email.html</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/019/959/qrc/1439529584565.cached.jpg?1443051451"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/14/hero-marine-nailed-for-sending-classified-report-from-personal-email.html">Hero Marine Nailed for Secret Email: What Did He Do That Hillary Didn’t?</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">Hillary Clinton could still become president after her email scandal, but a decorated Marine is being forced out over one classified report he sent to avert a disaster.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div>

2015-08-14T16:15:34-04:00 2015-08-14T16:15:34-04:00 Capt Jeff S. 890388

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was once investigated for talking about something that was classified SECRET (which I didn't remember) because it had also been published in newspapers. IMO it should never have been classified to begin with as it had zero relevance or consequence to the security of our sources, forces or national security. Needless to say, I kept my clearance but you really have to be careful about following procedures.

2015-08-14T16:29:39-04:00 2015-08-14T16:29:39-04:00 Capt Seid Waddell 890394

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>No good deed ever goes unpunished.

2015-08-14T16:31:20-04:00 2015-08-14T16:31:20-04:00 Sgt Spencer Sikder 890404

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Don't get me started, I was opposed to the action against this Marine from the beginning.

2015-08-14T16:33:35-04:00 2015-08-14T16:33:35-04:00 MSgt Curtis Ellis 890480

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I hope Navy Secretary Mabus will do the right thing...

2015-08-14T17:00:07-04:00 2015-08-14T17:00:07-04:00 Cpl Dennis F. 890518

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Thanks for posting.<br />Just more proof that Bizarro world has crept even into the Marine Corps. Sad.

2015-08-14T17:15:01-04:00 2015-08-14T17:15:01-04:00 SSgt Private RallyPoint Member 890530

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It is time to pull out all the stops and make sure Hillary pay for her BS. Time to let the Executive Branch that there are laws... and we will get this fixed ourselves.

2015-08-14T17:19:51-04:00 2015-08-14T17:19:51-04:00 CPT Jack Durish 890622

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What the Marine did differently is that he violated protocol in an effort to save someone else. Hillary violated it to save herself. She is forgiven because too many in high office believe that she is worth saving (and that those who died weren't)...

2015-08-14T17:50:03-04:00 2015-08-14T17:50:03-04:00 Capt Richard I P. 890633

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>LOL 'justice.'

2015-08-14T17:52:55-04:00 2015-08-14T17:52:55-04:00 MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca 890707

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I think it only appropriate for Hillary Clinton to address the issue and this Marine and tell him face to face why what he did was "wrong" and what she did was "ok". I mean what's good for one is good for the other. Let her explain why this Marine should lose his job while she is still able to run for president. I'd buy front row seats for that event!!

2015-08-14T18:24:03-04:00 2015-08-14T18:24:03-04:00 Sgt David G Duchesneau 890798

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>He didn't have her name! Plain and simple.

2015-08-14T19:04:56-04:00 2015-08-14T19:04:56-04:00 CSM Michael J. Uhlig 891178

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This don't pass the sniff test, something stinks here!

2015-08-14T22:52:10-04:00 2015-08-14T22:52:10-04:00 Sgt Private RallyPoint Member 891519

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I'm gonna be honest, I think the sir should be discharged. Did his lack of attention to what he did cause any harm to anybody or to national security? No but it had the potential to. Every single Marine gets the required annual training and the cyber security awareness training is part of that. He obviously passed it so he was allowed computer access and he knew that he shouldn't do it and yet he did. How can he ever lead Marines if he can't seem to follow the simple protocols that the Marine Corps instills upon us? It would only be justice if he got punished. You could make the argument that he served honorably otherwise and likely his first time doing something wrong but if he were to not be punished, it would only be fair to let other relatively minor offenses from Marines under him slide and that's just not what we do. There's a reason we're a cut above the rest. We do everything in our power to do the best we can and this is just unacceptable. On the Hillary note, she should also be punished but almost always politicians, celebrities and other rich, powerful people get off from their crimes/mistakes because of that status.

2015-08-15T04:58:00-04:00 2015-08-15T04:58:00-04:00 PO1 John Miller 891522

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><br />BOOM. Nailed it! This Marine's life is ruined, while Hillary will most likely get off Scott free without so much as a slap on the wrist.

2015-08-15T05:05:31-04:00 2015-08-15T05:05:31-04:00 TSgt Marco McDowell 894474

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Two totally different elements handled by two totally different command structures. We don't apply the same standards to military and civilians. How does this perplex people? I'd take my chances under the UCMJ in any matter. Apparently the cyber-security that monitors and maintains the computer access of the top officials in our government didn't notice anything or care about it. I know for a fact that the comm guys keep an eye on everything you do and will let you know if you screwed up (You know Blue Screen saying you're not authorized an/or a message on your screen saying WTF). We're talking about the Secretary of State, not an intern, her comms are monitored and screened, even personal emails. Heck, I sent a personnel roster over a government network without a Privacy Act Statement and within 30 minutes a SSgt showed up in my office to remind about it. Besides, civilians can feign ignorance, we cannot. Guessing that a document's security classification must've run out while it sat on your laptop and then shooting out over Gmail, regardless of your noble intent is frowned upon by the DoD. We are held to a different standard...even in retirement, which surprised me as I listened to/read my out brief. By all means I hope the Major can continue on with his career, but if the worst he has to suffer is going on his merry way, ah well. It won't stop him for running for public office or getting a job and like me, he'll get over the pain of leaving the Corps. If Clinton isn't in the brig now because of her foul-ups, then the severity of the email data is being overstated or is just politics as usual. And yes I've read this and many articles on the same subject, they all use the same "hero" and "combat vet" moniker to get people's skivvies twisted and leaving them to gloss over the entirety of the story(s).

2015-08-16T21:37:03-04:00 2015-08-16T21:37:03-04:00 SSG (ret) William Martin 898079

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It's a double standard. White House officials totally have no standards while their military upholds the strictest ones.

2015-08-18T03:27:33-04:00 2015-08-18T03:27:33-04:00 LTC Tom Jones 1713561

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/07/marine-officer-wants-same-treatment-as-hillary-clinton.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&amp;intcmp=obinsite">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/07/marine-officer-wants-same-treatment-as-hillary-clinton.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&amp;intcmp=obinsite</a><br /><br />Opportunity to get this right for the Major. Anything less would become a blatant example of the whom the $%^&amp;&amp; we are really serving when we don the uniform. <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/082/632/qrc/694940094001_5025990136001_070716-ff-marine-1280.jpg?1468428943"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/07/marine-officer-wants-same-treatment-as-hillary-clinton.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&amp;intcmp=obinsite">Marine officer wants same treatment as Hillary Clinton | Fox News</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">A U.S. Marine officer facing involuntary discharge for improperly handling classified information is hoping to receive the same lenient treatment the FBI recommended for former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div>

2016-07-13T13:04:43-04:00 2016-07-13T13:04:43-04:00 SGM Erik Marquez 4072831

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I dont know why this old post popped into my feed but it did, and after reading it i needed to know the outcome....<br />Maj Brezler was vindicated as he should have been.<br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2016/12/06/marine-major-who-warned-of-danger-before-insider-attack-wins-court-case/">https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2016/12/06/marine-major-who-warned-of-danger-before-insider-attack-wins-court-case/</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/336/732/qrc/VZM7UFQS6JD4PB2I5NMMRMZQYI.jpg?1540466499"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2016/12/06/marine-major-who-warned-of-danger-before-insider-attack-wins-court-case/">Marine major who warned of danger before insider attack wins court case</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">A federal judge has overturned a Marine Corps decision to discharge Marine Maj. Jason Brezler, who was accused of mishandling classified information after he warned Marines in Afghanistan about an Afghan police chief days before a deadly insider attack in August 2012.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div>

2018-10-25T07:22:06-04:00 2018-10-25T07:22:06-04:00 SSgt Ray Stone 4072974

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