Hillary's security clearance about to be pulled?

Clinton under investigation again for handling of government emails

Chelsea Schilling

Have Hillary Clinton’s chickens finally come home to roost?

The former U.S. secretary of state is now under investigation by the State Department, which has launched “a formal inquiry” into whether Clinton mishandled classified information when she set up a private, nonsecured server in the basement of her Chappaqua, New York, home while she served as America’s top diplomat under President Obama.

Pending results of the investigation, the State Department may choose to revoke the security clearances given to Clinton and her aides, according to a report by FoxNews.com.

Currently, Clinton and her staffers have authorization to access sensitive government information, despite the fact that they have been under investigation.

“The department’s investigation aims to determine whether Clinton and her closest aides violated government protocols by using her private server to receive, hold and transmit classified and top-secret government documents. The department declined to say when its inquiry began, but it follows the conclusion of the FBI’s probe into the matter, which did not result in any actions being taken against Clinton or any of her aides,” Fox reported.

“Depending on the outcome of the current State Department inquiry, Clinton and her aides could have their access to sensitive government documents terminated. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, confirmed to Fox News the department’s formal inquiry.”

In a July 2016 announcement, former FBI Director James Comey said Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

But Comey stopped short of recommending prosecution of Clinton and her aides.

Among Clinton’s private emails were dozens of documents tagged Top Secret and “Special Access Program,” the highest classification. At least 2,000 more emails on her private server contained information that is deemed classified now.

Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told Fox the email case against the former Democratic Party nominee for president is “over.”

“Nothing’s been more thoroughly dissected,” he said. “It’s over. Case closed. Literally.”

But Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research for the government watchdog Judicial Watch, told Fox that Clinton and her “circle of national security criminals” should never have access to classified information for any reason.

“Their conduct has cost them that privileged position of special trust and confidence,” Farrell said.

He told Fox that any other person working in government would have faced prosecution under 18 USC Sec 793(f), “Mishandling National Defense Information.”

“This flagrant double standard for the gang that exposed Top Secret Codeword material to the Russians, Chinese and others is both offensive and deeply corrosive to the intelligence community,” Farrell said. “There is no better evidence that when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her côtèrie — laws are for the little people.”