Good day all. Yesterday, a story broke that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security clearance is being looked at.
The reason for this is fairly obvious. Her criminal mishandling of highly classified documents, along with the investigation into this should have caused any remaining clearances to be suspended or revoked. As you might expect, there are a few differences of opinion on this. Here are the details from Bloomberg View:
Now that several e-mails on Hillary Clinton’s private server have been classified, there is a more immediate question than the outcome of the investigation: Should the former secretary of state retain her security clearance during the inquiry?
The simple answer is NO! She should lose all her clearances, and it isn’t just me saying it. I’ve heard from a number of people who actually hold high level clearances who are floored that, besides not sitting in a jail cell, Clinton hasn’t had them revoked already.
Congressional Republicans and Democrats offer predictably different answers.
Gee, why am I not surprised?
Representative Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Clinton should not lose her security clearance for receiving information that was not marked classified at the time. “I’m sure she does hold a clearance, and she should,” he told us.
And right off the bat Schiff should lose his clearances and be removed from the committee. He knows what the law says regarding the handling of classified information and the fact it wasn’t marked as classified means nothing in the eyes of the law.
But then he is a democrat and we all know that the democrats will always put party ahead of everything, including the law and Constitution. The Republicans, who do, on occasion, put the law and Constitution ahead of party, where of a different opinion.
Representative Mike Pompeo, a Republican member of that committee who also has read the e-mails, told us, “It’s important, given all the information we now know, that the House of Representatives work alongside the executive branch to determine whether it’s appropriate for Secretary Clinton to continue to hold her security clearances.”
And finally, we have the RINO Wimp running the committee.
Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr told us the decision lies with the White House. “I think that’s up to what the National Security Council is comfortable with,” he said.
Burr, who has also read all 22 e-mails, said Clinton should have known to better protect the information they contain. “They are definitely sensitive,” he said. “Anybody in the intelligence world would know that the content was sensitive.”
Moron. If you have access to those messages and know what they contained, then why is there any question on pulling Cankles clearances? Maybe the reason is that Obama or the Clintons have something on you? And then we have Diane Feinstein.
His Democratic counterpart, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who also read them, told us that Clinton didn’t originally send any of the e-mails and that they were largely from her staff, although she did sometimes reply. Feinstein said the intelligence community is being overly cautious by designating the e-mails as top secret. There’s no question that they are over-classifying this stuff,” she said.
I beg your pardon, but weren’t some of those messages Special Access Program rated? Didn’t they name assets working for us as spies? Do you think doing damage that might rise to the levels done by Aldrich Ames, (Without the criminal intent, not that that matters under the law), is just a minor little thing?
The FBI investigation may determine that neither Clinton nor her aides broke the law, but Clinton herself has said she used poor judgment. It’s an open question how that poor judgment will affect her access to state secrets, during and after the FBI’s investigation.
This isn’t just poor judgment, although Cankles is utterly incompetent. This about the deliberate passing of state secrets from a classified network to a private email system with no security on it. I won’t bother with the various laws and regulations Clinton broke by maintaining that system. The very fact that she saw these secret files in her personal email system AND DID NOTHING ABOUT IT is all that’s needed to prosecute her.
It would be one thing if a message leaked through, but the moment she saw it, and Cankles is well versed on what secret information looks like, she should have contacted the FBI and let them know about it. She didn’t. As far as I’m concerned, that put her judgment into serious question and she needs to lose her clearances if any are still operational.
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