Of course they had no clearances. What she was asking them to do was blatantly illegal, and anyone that had any knowledge of gov’t intel/security would know this.
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And they would have perserved the evidence and notified the FBI. As it is, now everyone around Clinton who emailed her to her private email server, is in violation of Misprison of Felony (failure to report a felony).
In the United States, misprision of felony is a crime. Title 18 section 4
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.