Heitkamp dismisses Clinton comments on civility as 'ridiculous'
The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmed Friday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security clearance has been revoked by her own request. The move comes more than a year after Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley requested the department to investigate if Clinton still had security clearance.
According to the letter released by Grassley, the State Department said that Clinton's clearance was revoked on Aug. 30. Five of Clinton's aides, who she had asked be designated as researches, had their security clearances revoked on Sept. 20.
Security clearances: How do they work?
During Clinton's run for president, lawmakers and investigators looked into her and her staff's security clearance as part of the investigation into her use of a private email server.
Retiring senior officials usually retain a basic level of security clearance, but the Trump administration has been "exploring" the possibility of revoking security clearances of several intelligence officials who have criticized the president.
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in July that the White House is evaluating on a "case by case basis" the clearances of several of President Obama's intelligence officials, including former FBI director James Comey and former National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
In August, President Trump ordered former CIA Director John Brennan, one of those officials, be stripped of his security clearance.
The CIA "holds" former directors' security clearance and renews it every five years for the rest of their lives. But that requires former CIA directors to behave like current CIA employees if they want to keep their clearance, which means avoiding travel to certain countries and generally living in a manner above reproach.
Other former government employees can keep their security clearances if they move to a private sector job where they work with classified information, such as at a defense contractor. The company would then apply to the government for someone to keep or receive a security clearance. The security officers at the different agencies then grant or rule if someone can keep their clearances.
Hundreds if not thousands of private companies apply for their employees to receive security clearances. In an interview with Bloomberg earlier this year, the CEO of Lockheed Martin said that 60,000 of her employees have a security clearance of some kind.
Hillary Clinton's security clearance revoked by her own request
Anyone think she would have revoked her clearance if there was no pressure on her to do so?
Hillary keeps trying hard to stay relevant.
It's sad really. In her own mind she was preparing to become the first female President in the history of the United States...only to be relegated to an historical footnote in time...the loser whose hubris and arrogance made her snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Hillary doesn't need to try to stay relevant. The slobbering, frothing hatred of the Nazis sees to that.
A mere 1700 posts into the Hillary thread.
Nov. 8 2016 put the icing on the cake.
Off topic a wee bit - I caught part of a discussion today on C.B.C. radio between Monica Lewinski and Linda Tripp. A conspiracy over a period of 3 months in 1997 to nail Bill. From what I could gather from Linda Tripp, she literally feared for her life. According to her, Bill was 3 rd rate vermin with no conscience. Hillary must be proud!
Heitkamp will suffer the same fate as Mrs. Clinton.
Hillary, Bill Clinton to go on tour this year with stops in Toronto and Montreal
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...real-1.4854613
An example of slobbering, frothing hatred of Nazis seeing to it that Mrs. Clinton stays relevant.