US State Department: Hillary Clinton Lost Security Clearance

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Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton no longer has a security clearance.

Five of her former aides also lost theirs, following a scandal over her use of a private email server while running the State Department.

Clinton’s security clearance “has been withdrawn at her request,” the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed on Friday, citing a State Department note dated September 21.

Meanwhile, the White House said it would look into revoking the clearances of several other Obama administration officials, though no further withdrawals have been announced since.

Clinton served as the helm of the State Department from January 2009 to February 2013, when she resigned to launch her 2016 presidential bid.

By 2015, House Republicans investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks established that Clinton had almost exclusively used the server run from her Chappaqua, New York home instead of the secure State Department network.

Clinton finally admitted the private server use in March 2015, months before Trump launched his presidential bid, but said that the messages did not contain classified information and that she meant no harm.

The FBI investigation did find classified messages among the thousands of emails. In July 2016, FBI Director James Comey publicly announced no charges would be filed in the case. The email scandal continued to dog Clinton to the very end of the campaign, however.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team