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A plea to Paul Ryan: Legislative action needs to be taken to protect national security

Jul 7, 2016, 7:22 PM

The media cycle is driven by political operatives. They gather the information in Washington D.C. and distribute it to the news organizations in NYC.  This is what is happening with the “investigation” of Hillary Clinton.  And nothing is going to come of it. 

Paul Ryan is doing what he can to give the Hillary investigation “legs.”  But they’re not going to legislatively do a damn thing about.

I want some bills and laws in place to protect our national security. A bill that says you do all your official business and email on government servers. If you try to dodge this law it’s a felony and you’re going to jail. And everyone that works for the federal government should have to sign a piece of paper that binds them to that, even “Queens of the World” like Hillary Clinton.

Congress needs to pass a law that says all government business should be done through official channels.  Any attempt to avoid these official channels is a felony punishable by 10 years in prison. 

The second part of my legislation says that all information sent by all federal bureaucracies is assumed to be the equal property of the Congress of the United States.  The Congress should not have to ask for access to this information; it should be easily accessible.

We don’t have any other options. It should be a criminal penalty to skirt the system and it should be considered breaking the law. I want to see legislative action taken on this — Paul Ryan!

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