Letters to the Editor, Oct. 5, 2022

 LEGAL SEARCH

The FBI search of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home was conducted on a legal search warrant. The search retrieved boxes of documents which should have been handed over to the National Archives, including over 300 classified documents, some classified top secret. Documents included national security information involving intelligence gathering, clandestine operations in foreign countries, and nuclear capabilities and defences of foreign countries. Could any foreign intelligence agents have accessed these documents? Trump says he declassified the documents. Is there something in writing referencing his declassification process? When I was in the Navy in the ’50s and ’60s, I held a top-secret cryptographic clearance. Classified documents had to go through a formal procedure to be declassified or reclassified (up or down). The agency originating the classification had to initiate the declassification or reclassification and agencies and departments utilizing the documents had to provide input to the formal procedure. Why did Trump take these documents? Trump absconded with highly classified documents that could be used against the U.S. He is untrustworthy, unAmerican, and a threat to our national security.

Donald Moskowitz

Londonderry, N.H.

(We don’t think we are getting the entire picture from either side of this)

DO NOT TOUCH

Re “Trudeau government needs to act, not talk on Iran” (Brian Lilley, Sept. 28): In addition to possibly increasing sanctions against Iran, it might be useful to offer them suggestions on decreasing violence which are completely consistent with Islamic law. One suggestion would be that other than at the time of the initial arrest, no male police officer, prison guard or other person in authority should touch a female prisoner or detainee. This would be consistent with the principle of not touching women outside of one’s immediate family. It would be a way of significantly reducing violence against women, totally consistent with Iran’s religious traditions.

Bruce Couchman                                                                                                                                         Ottawa

(They aren’t interested in any suggestions from the West and only see us a nuisance interfering in their affairs. You cannot reason with that)

ANOTHER SMEAR

Re “The monsters are winning” (Warren Kinsella, Sept. 28): Right across from the page that declares “Trending in right direction” referring to Pierre Poilievre, another diatribe by Kinsella tries to dirty the Canadian people’s chosen rising star. Unlike in the Liberal Party where all the nasties are actually Liberals, these thugs that Kinsella names have absolutely nothing to do with Canadians who vote Conservative. These are sly fringe groups who unfortunately react to Trudeau’s undemocratic word salads and the censorship legislation he is furiously trying to push through to silence critics and dissenters with rage and verbal threats. As to Kinsella’s smear that Poilievre would knowingly consort with this Diagolon creature, he probably — like me and many other Canadians — knows nothing about this group. But this is the type of sludge Liberals constantly indulge in when they cannot defend the ideological climate restrictions, the freedom killing edicts, and the horrific Trudeau spending habits that have undermined our country’s stability and are distressing and beggaring its citizens.

Carol Joseph                                                                                                                                             Burlington

(Kinsella has his perspective, even if it is misguided on some issues)