Clinton, Top Aides Still Have State Dept. Security Clearances

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | 06/12/17 | Madeleine Weast

[Enlightened1]

Hillary Clinton and seven of her top aides have retained their State Department security clearances a year after the FBI concluded they were "extremely careless" handling sensitive information.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealed Clinton's current security clearance status on Friday. Grassley released the information to express concern about the State Department's slow bureaucratic process, Circa reported.

"The State Department confirmed that it is continuing to review the mishandling of classified information that passed through Secretary Hillary Clinton's unauthorized email server as she and seven former aides retain access to sensitive information," Grassley's office said.

Clinton, who served as secretary of state under former President Barack Obama, and seven of her aides were designated as "research assistants" in order to keep their security clearances.

Clinton was under investigation for using a private email address and home-brewed server to send and receive classified information during her tenure at the State Department.

Former FBI Director James Comey said last July that Clinton and her top aides were "extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

"There is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information," Comey said.

Comey recommended that the Justice Department not pursue criminal charges, however, because he could not prove Clinton intended to break the law by using a private email server.

Grassley sent a letter to the State Department in late March asking for Clinton's security clearance details.

[JBW1949]

And the hits just keep on coming.............

[hal ogen]

Why???

[SaveFerris]

[ "The State Department confirmed that it is continuing to review the mishandling of classified information that passed through Secretary Hillary Clinton's unauthorized FELONIOUS email server as she and seven former aides retain access to sensitive information," Grassley's office said. ]

There. Fixed it.

[JustTheTruth]

Simply outrageous.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Why aren’t they in jail? Their security clearances should have been ended the day they left office. Someone is covering up for them and needs to be fired for incompetency, dereliction of duty, and collusion with the enemy (i.e. the Clintonistas.)

[Diogenesis]

This is an ADMISSION, de facto,
that Seth Rich lives, that there has been no Arkancide,
that no uranium went to Russia,
that there has been no leakage of classified material,
that there has been no unmasking by Rice, CLinton and
Obama, and the Carlos Danger deserves more young girls.

[onedoug]

Doesn’t President Trump have something to Tweet about this?

[ptsal]

The Hillary and her Creatures need to be in JAIL.

[ForYourChildren]

Washington Free Bacon?

[bitt]

Clinton, Top Aides Still Have State Dept. Security Clearances

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[Lurkinanloomin]

This is completely ridiculous and unacceptable.
She has not been Secretary of State since 2012.

[Bodega]

I was outraged to read this! WHY IS ANY SECURITY CLEARANCE BEING OR HAS BEEN ISSUED TO CLINTON AND HER FLEET OF SYCOPHANTS!?!?!?!?

Does Trump know this information? Fire all the people who were involved in maintaining this gross mismanagement of security.

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!! Says she sputtering with indignation.

[mcshot]

Let’s hear it Mr. Presidnet. If necessary we can rent an AA gun from the N’Koreans. Although, most patriots have many hole sizes good for bleeding out.

[reg45]

When I left my last employer, my login and password were deleted the next day.

[tillacum]

Why hasn’t the government removed the security clearance from her minions

[ApeStyle]

When I retired from the Marines, my TS clearance was still active, I think it’s SOP to just let them expire. If they had actually been held accountable for their criminal behavior it would be a different story.

[clintonh8r]

WTActualF

[Jumper]

Your S2 or G2 Security Officer by law should have read you out and had you sign disclosure forms that ended your clearance. When a person leaves their position, their clearance while not pulled does not/or no longer gives them access to information again until as such time as permissions are assigned giving you specific access to different categories or levels of information.

[tang-soo]

When I retired from the Marines, my TS clearance was still active, I think it’s SOP to just let them expire. If they had actually been held accountable for their criminal behavior it would be a different story.

May have still been administratively active, which meant you could have been read back into a program without a full reinvestigation, but I bet you were debriefed and your access to the program(s) and/or material(s) you had access to do your job was removed.

SOmehow I doubt those same procedures have been followed regarding HRC. If she hs had access to classified information after she left her post as SState, that is criminal with the possible exception while was a prez candidate.