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State Department probes Clinton handling of government emails, could pull her security clearance
Fox News ^ | June 20, 2017 | Malia Zimmerman

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; hillaryclinton; hillaryemails; hillaryinvestigation; secstate; securityclearance
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To: UnwashedPeasant

They need to determine? BS. Once one leaves a TS or higher job for one or two years the TS clearance is reduced to the lowest one needs to continue Gov/Military work/assignments. Clinton has been out to long to even have a damn secret security clearance. That is the minimum for military officers. When was her BI done? When were updates done?


61 posted on 06/20/2017 4:46:36 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: monkeywrench

Most probably.


62 posted on 06/20/2017 4:47:33 PM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: taxcontrol

I wouldn’t bet on it.


63 posted on 06/20/2017 4:49:13 PM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant; All

Does this mean everyone who ever was in gov still has a security clearance? valjar? obama? kerry? rice? obamas speech writer that got the PDB? podesta? bill clinton?


64 posted on 06/20/2017 4:53:56 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Dave346; HarleyLady27

Wonder what is up?


65 posted on 06/20/2017 5:12:18 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

STOP THIS MADNESS!!!!! WHY does ANY FORMER ANYTHING have a SECURITY CLEARANCE!!!!!!!!! Let alone Hilliary Clinton!!


66 posted on 06/20/2017 5:16:23 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

She no longer works for(LOL) Government why does she even have one


67 posted on 06/20/2017 5:20:11 PM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: jjotto

Is he finishing up a project for Christie or is there another reason?


68 posted on 06/20/2017 5:25:51 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: hoosiermama

Things have been really tight for a while now...Sessions is unseen, nobody really is saying anything...President Trump is going about his business, T-Rex is doing his job, everybody is doing things, but they are not leaking...

The only leaks are those coming from the ‘special council’ have you noticed???

I wonder what ‘bombshell’ is going to break Friday afternoon for the weekend???


69 posted on 06/20/2017 5:26:11 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: HarleyLady27

Didnt SEAN or someone say that Trump would tell us about the “tapes” on Thursday or Friday? So something is up!


70 posted on 06/20/2017 5:30:45 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: hoosiermama

Sean did, yesterday in the ‘printed version’ of the presser...

That could be it...but I wonder what ‘tapes’ they might be, a lot think they are something to do with Comey, they might not be...???


71 posted on 06/20/2017 5:34:10 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“”Why does any former office-holder have security
clearance””

I don’t understand either. I got an email FOX alert and couldn’t respond on that so glad this was posted on a thread here at FR. There shouldn’t be any question - YANK them ALL now - no fuss, no muss - just do it! For once in your miserable lives Congress - do what is right and stop dithering!


72 posted on 06/20/2017 5:37:29 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: a fool in paradise

“”Clinton’s WH didn’t even perform background checks because they knew some staff wouldn’t pass.””

That’s sure going back a way but I remember that. Those staff members worked all that time in the Clinton WH without clearances - went out the same way they came in - NO CLEARANCES!

I think it was outlined in Clinton Chronicles which I have managed to lose somewhere in a move. I didn’t want all the Clinton books when we retired and moved but I thought I’d kept that one as it covered all the sins - draft dodging to Whitewater....


73 posted on 06/20/2017 5:40:51 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: FamiliarFace; LS; Drew68; stanne; libertylover; jersey117; monkeywrench; Senator_Blutarski

I think the good Senator is on to something.

Please put on your tin foil hat (as Mr. Bannon would sometimes say when he hosted Breitbart radio), and hear me out.

It's not uncommon in law enforcement, after they detect illegal activity, to let that activity continue to build a case. That is, they let the law be broken on their watch, to collect evidence.

As the prior post notes, access has to be cut. I wouldn't be surprised if the request to revoke Hillary's access got bogged down or 'lost' in the Deep State. Maybe, just maybe, when someone got around to it, an active pipeline of information flowing to Hillary, that the Trump Administration uncovered. Rather than revoke her access, they've let it ride to collect evidence.

Sure, Hillary will hold a press conference, claim that she never opened the envelopes of intelligence, that she learned about what's happening in the world like everyone else, by reading the Wall Street Journal, and that technically no law was broken blah blah blah. The subsequent snapping you'll hear is that of the bear trap.

As I've read here many times, we won't get everything. We won't get Hillary in Orange, tax cuts, the Wall, and so on. There will be some arrangement made, some deal. Yes, we Deplorables won't be happy...we have walked in the desert for 28 years. But in the midst of 'failure' you often find success. Many thought Reagan failed at Reykjavik, but my reading of history (and that of George Shultz) is just the opposite.

Bulls and bears make money, pigs and sheep get slaughtered. Let's play long ball, folks, and witness some of the most artful acts of patriotism seen in decades.

/Tin Hat>

74 posted on 06/20/2017 6:08:12 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: UnwashedPeasant

No one wants to touch her no one thats we she walks free


75 posted on 06/20/2017 6:18:49 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: hoosiermama

There is some thought that there are questions about Wray representing an American against criminal charges in Russia a number of years ago.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the White House said, “There’s a pretty lengthy paperwork process, I know, that goes with selecting that individual. And so I believe they’re in the middle of that process. And as soon as it’s completed, it will be sent over [to the Senate].”


76 posted on 06/20/2017 7:26:36 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Thank you


77 posted on 06/20/2017 8:10:36 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Why does the old crone still have any security clearance at all?


78 posted on 06/21/2017 5:36:42 AM PDT by okie 54
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