My dad, serving in U.S. occupation forces in Japan, was horrified by an incident that compromised the codes of the United States. His reaction to the breach was in marked contrast to Donald Trump’s, who said he had the right to expose U.S. secrets. Trump even said he declassified highly secret information so he could make it public.
After Japan surrendered, my dad was sent to Japan to run a “radio station.” As a toddler in the 1950s, I assumed my dad was playing records. In fact, as manager of the station called Queen Charlie, his team coded and decoded messages sent out on the airwaves. They probably all or mostly involved logistics.
It’s now hard to imagine a world without the Internet or even computers, but if you needed more aviation gasoline or more spam, you probably coded a message and broadcast it.
One night Dad returned to the station and found the soldier running the place passed out drunk with “all the code books of the United States” sitting open and unsecured on the desk. He was horrified. For the rest of his life, he was extremely distressed that someone could be so careless with National Security.
In contrast, Trump has declared his intent to share America’s most important secrets with our enemies. My dad’s team handled pretty mundane stuff. Trump declared his right and intent to illegally possess and share America’s most sensitive secrets.
Enter Judge Cannon. She has little judicial experience. Her husband has worked for a convicted felon with ties to Trump and organized crime. Maybe her wacked out rulings are the result of failure to understand her job. On the other hand, maybe she understands her job very well. It’s an outrage that she would throw out charges against Trump based on some fringe theory that special prosecutors are improperly appointed.
We need to win this election and win it big.