Posted on 06/20/2017 2:32:17 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
The State Department has opened a formal inquiry into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information while she was the nation’s top diplomat, Fox News has learned. Despite being under investigation, Clinton and her staffers still have security clearances to access sensitive government information.
The department’s investigation aims to determine whether Clinton and her closest aides violated government protocols by using her private server to receive, hold and transmit classified and top-secret government documents. The department declined to say when its inquiry began, but it follows the conclusion of the FBI’s probe into the matter, which did not result in any actions being taken against Clinton or any of her aides.
Depending on the outcome of the current State Department inquiry, Clinton and her aides could have their access to sensitive government documents terminated.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, confirmed the department’s formal inquiry.
Meanwhile, Grassley’s committee launched its own inquiry into Clinton’s handling of emails, an inquiry that began in March. Grassley cited among his concerns the July 5 statement of former FBI Director James Comey that the agency found Clinton and her staff members were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.” Grassley also contended there is “evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information...”
During the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of top-secret and classified information on her private server, Comey said there were seven email chains on Clinton’s computer that were classified at the “Top Secret/Special Access Program level.” Another 2,000 emails on her private server were found to have contained information deemed classified now, though not marked classified when sent. In addition, the server also contained 22 top-secret emails deemed too damaging to national security to be released.
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Still?
That she still has any security clearance is amazing.
Right and so many more that still have security clearances that need to be taken away.......NOW!!
Outrageous dereliction of duty to national security, by Tillerson’s State Dept.
UNIPARTY!
The default is to keep the clearance but not access for two years. Thus a person leaving a clearance job can move to another job without having to re-submit a full background check. They would have to submit the details for the time without access. It is a cost saving measure.
The larger question is why her clearance was not pulled the moment it was known that she mishandled the information.
COULD???? They SHOULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Clinton and her staffers still have security clearances to access sensitive government information.”
You’re kidding me, right?
I don’t know if draining the swamp will work. Might have to nuke it.
5.56mm
Having a clearance does not automatically mean access.
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Strictly PR for red meat conservatives. She doesn’t need clearance now.
Hillary left as SOS on February 1, 2013. That means that the federal statute of limitations on anything she’s likely to be charged with is up February 1, 2018 at the latest.
“Why does any former office-holder have security clearance.”
Now that’s a good question.
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IMO...once a elected or appointed official is gone..either fired, not reelected, retired, quit..whatever...they SHOULD NOT HAVE SECURITY CLEARANCES...PERIOD!!
And why would this decision take more than a millisecond to make?
Why does she need security clearance?
They’ve been down this road for years! Comey let The Beast off the hook. When are the theatrics and melodrama going to end? If they want to perpetuate this, go after her with the Russian Uranium deal.
>>Why does any former office-holder have security clearance.
Trump needs to cancel all security clearances that are not necessary — starting with violators of the Espionage Act.
President Trump or someone in the Administration needs to answer this question. The public has a right to know why these horrible anti-American people continue to have security clearances. It’s infuriating that what appears to be hundreds of Obama and Clinton operatives are still hanging around doing everything that can to thwart the will of the people who voted to be rid of them.
They keep telling us shes now a “ private citizen”
Private citizens have no need to know classified information
AMEN
Recently met a Jewish women who retired from State. She was "coming out of the closet" and joining up with the Republicans. SD is swamp central. The things she told me put my jaw on the floor.
If she still has anything classified in her posesion, it would be another legal problem added to the list.
>>How come the ENTIRE WORLD knows Hillary committed serious FELONIES by retaining and handling Top Secret documents on an unsecured and illegal home server but the State Dept. hasn’t quite figured that out yet?
The DEEP STATE DEPT. needs to be DEFUNDED and SHUT DOWN. They are STILL a criminal enterprise.
This situation more than anything else is what will turn Trump’s most loyal supporters, including myself, against him. And without our support he’s toast following the mid-terms. ARE YOU TRUMP OPERATIVES OUT THERE LISTENING TO WHAT I’M TELLING YOU?? GET THOSE BASTA*DS OUT OF THERE NOW!
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