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Home Front: Politix
Zero Granted HRC Access to Highly Classified Material While She Was Running for Pres
2017-04-07
[Political Insider] A stunning report from Fox News indicates that the Obama administration granted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and six of her top aides access to top secret and classified information ‐ even after she left the State Department in 2013, even after she announced a run for the White House in April of 2015, and even after FBI Director James Comey declared that Clinton and her staff had been "extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley made the startling revelation in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, noting that Clinton asked for access to the classified information because she was writing her memoir, Hard Choices.

That’s right ‐ The woman who had a home brew server installed in her bathroom and whose emails somehow ended up on laptops owned by serial snapchatter Anthony Weiner, was granted access to sensitive material so she could write a book.

Via Fox News:
When Hillary Clinton resigned as Secretary of State in 2013, she negotiated continuing access to classified and top-secret documents for herself and six staffers under the designation "research assistants," according to a powerful senator who notes that Clinton was later deemed "extremely careless" with such information.

The staff apparently retained access even after Clinton announced her run for president in April 2015, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. The access was ostensibly granted to facilitate work on Clinton’s memoir, but Grassley said he was only able to verify it after the Obama administration left the White House.

President Obama’s administration repeatedly stonewalled Grassley’s requests for information on the classified information access.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Come on people, you know she was on Susan Rice's JWICs sharepoint, pulling down all that unmasked campaign talk to include in the upcoming chapter of her book, How to Cheat an Election and Blame the Russians.
Posted by: rammer   2017-04-07 18:32  

#10   Little by little that business about Trump and Putin colluding to hack the election is beginning to fade away as Democrat "resistance" goes on defense.
Posted by: Abu Uluque

"Fade away" yes.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-04-07 14:45  

#9  Little by little that business about Trump and Putin colluding to hack the election is beginning to fade away as Democrat "resistance" goes on defense.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-04-07 12:23  

#8  Giving one candidate for president what was apparently unlimited access to classified information when that candidate is a member of your own party would appear to be a political act, and one of a kind inappropriate even for a president.
Since ghostwriters actually write the memoirs, the issue is: were Ms. Clinton's ghostwriters cleared for access to sensitive highly classified information? If not, it would be a felony for her to divulge any of such information found by her to them, rendering it useless for her memoirs.
By the way the broadening of government access to clandestinely obtained information by President Obama days before leaving office seems a strange and inexplicable act. Can we somehow find out the claimed motivation for it?
Posted by: Grins Snese4215   2017-04-07 11:53  

#7  Zero granted HRC access to highly classified info and Donna Brazile also fed Hillary debate questions to the "Beest" and she still lost. Bad candidate.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-04-07 11:27  

#6  
#2 Does the President have authority to do this or is this considered a criminal leak?

The law is a little fuzzy when it comes to the President giving access or releasing info.
If HRC had her clearance still, the president can legally giver her all the access he wants to anything. He really is the end point for access and release.
The president can also release classified material as wall as he can designate it as approved for release.

If she didn't have a clearance... that is when things get fuzzy. The president can release classified info, but to one citizen that doesn't have clearances... would be an interesting legal argument.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-04-07 10:41  

#5  Considering the type of elitist pile of dog poop HRC is, she wouldn't be writing the book but some ghost writer did. So, some clown got access to TS material.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-04-07 10:26  

#4  So Hilarity read the WireGate transcripts?
This is 'pretty old' news. Has it been resurrected?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-04-07 09:52  

#3  or is this considered a criminal leak?

Black lies matter. Er, black spies matter. Er, uh, black bag job...

Ah, something like that.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-04-07 09:14  

#2  Does the President have authority to do this or is this considered a criminal leak?
Posted by: AlanC   2017-04-07 07:57  

#1  Needless to say, there's more to come on this.
Everything she viewed is logged, if someone just examines the log, they are boned.
Posted by: Theatch Thaiting5261   2017-04-07 00:47  

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