Hillary Clinton's loose lips on nuclear response time troubles military

CNN:
The Twitterverse was aflame in the hours after Wednesday night's debate with questions about whether or not Hillary Clinton divulged classified information about the country's nuclear arsenal.
"There's about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so," Clinton said, explaining the quick decision-making required of a commander in chief and questioning Donald Trump's fitness for the job.

"And that's why 10 people who have had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented way, said they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes or to have his finger on the nuclear button," she continued.

But questions soon began to emerge about whether Clinton was too specific in her description of nuclear launch times and had perhaps revealed something she learned in a classified setting.
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But even if the information is publicly available, those with clearances cannot reveal anything they learn in a classified setting.
Asked about the sensitivity of this specific information, US Strategic Command, which oversees the US nuclear arsenal, declined to weigh in on the specifics.

"We do not disclose operational timelines, but we do work to provide the President as much decision space as possible," Capt. Brook DeWalt, chief spokesperson for Strategic Command, told CNN in a statement.
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There is a reason why they do not disclose operational timelines.  That information is helpful to an enemy planning an attack.  It is better to keep an ambiguity about response times.  The so-called smartest woman in the world was not smart enough to know that.

She has a history of being disrespectful to the military and being sloppy with classified information and this only adds to that history.

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