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No clearance for Kushner

Dear Editor:

I retired from Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant as a senior operator. Anyone who works in the plant must have a security clearance. To go to the control rooms, you need a higher clearance.

There are more than 1,000 people in North Alabama who have a security clearance for BFNP. Jared Kushner, or j kush, cannot work even as a groundskeeper at BFNP. He can’t get in because he can in no way pass the security test required.

So please, America, tell me because I’m curious. How does j kush receive the daily briefings at the White House, that only persons with the highest security clearance can see? Why does the government allow only this guy the privy?

Breaking the law is breaking the law. The bending of the law is breaking the law. Why do the people in the government and people of the nation allow this to happen?

The reason for a clearance is to protect our country and citizens from infiltrators that could and will do the U.S. great harm. It could be through blackmail or various other ways to manipulate a person, and push them towards giving up classified information.

J kush has a temporary clearance, which is not the same as a real higher class of a clearance. This is a huge problem for the Trump organization and for the U.S. itself.

To make America great again, we must not bend the laws to satisfy only the rich and powerful, but we as citizens, must speak to what is right and lawful and inspect what we as citizens expect of our government.

Sincerely,

Kelly Range

Athens

Bill leaves voters with no choices

Dear Editor:

Alabama HB 214 appears to be another attempt to disenfranchise voters, this time by taking away the choice of political parties.

This same bad idea is also showing up as SB164. A single winner-take-all scramble may work for golf tournaments, but seems a bad way to run a democracy.

The fallback of a runoff between the top two vote getters could pit two members of the same party against each other, leaving voters without a significant choice. The current system may seem messy and inefficient, but it provides for real options.

We the people must demand to continue to have real choices at the polls.

Sincerely,

David Williams

Elkmont