Hillary
Clinton Never Had A legal Security Clearance
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE BOTTOM LINE’
While at the Department of State, former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not complete the required annually mandatory security training courses on the proper
handling of classified materials, or receive a background investigation or any
training on how to conduct secure
communications. She was not ever issued an ‘Official Security Clearance’.
This is according to new administration legal
filings before the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia.
Oew
– weee, this is beyond belief: And it
just ads to the corruption that seems to follow Hillary Clinton like a
shadow.
When I was in the military I had a level
5 security clearance and finally a level 4 clearance. Extensive background checks and training were
required before I was given a security clearance of any kind. It is standard for any federal employee that
is privy to any classified or top secret Intel to be required to renew their
certification annually. And even at a
level 4, for me, it was still usually on a need to know basis.
If there is no background investigation
or no training as to what is expected of someone with a security clearance…then
no certification of a security clearance is issued or renewed. Period.
The
surprise admission by the Federal Government was released late last Friday and
could reignite the controversy over Clinton’s arrogant, criminal and “careless”
handling of United States classified materials as asserted by FBI Director
James Comey, which Loretta Lynch attorney General of the DOJ refused to
prosecute. Oh! It’s just part of the
good ole girls club of D.C.
The government’s unexpected admissions were
filed in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by The Daily
Caller News Foundation. (DCNF)
This revelation
also could renew calls for the Department of State to strip her of her now
unofficial security clearance. The co-founder of at least one retired military officer’s
organization has called for a suspension of her illegal clearance. Which would make her ineligible to run for
president.
State Department officials previously
reported that they could not
locate any records certifying that Clinton or her top aides took any annually
required security courses and briefings.
But
on July 29, Whitehouse officials went further, saying their failure to locate
any documents meant that the “courses were not completed” by the
secretary or her aides. So there was not a certified security clearance ever issued
to Mrs. Clinton.
“If the search of these databases did not
locate any such training records, then the courses were not completed,” concluded
Eric Stein, the co-director of
the State Department’s Office of Information Programs and Services in the July
29 filing before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon.
The
Department of Justice officials were clear in their filing that if Clinton
had security briefings or classes, and had received a security clearance, it
would show up in their databases.
They reported to the court that the State
Department scoured the files and databases held by four different department
training divisions: the Student Management Training System; the Cyber Security Administration;
the Sensitive Compartmented Information electronic training records; and the
certification records at the Foreign Service Institute’s Bureau of Diplomatic
Security, and no security clearance.
“State
searched the record systems and databases that would contain records showing
that the specified individuals completed the mandatory training courses — if
they in fact completed them,” stated Benjamin Mizer, the principal deputy assistant
Attorney General, and Marcia Berman, the assistant director of the Federal
Program Branch at the Justice Department, in their filing before Judge Leon.
The
government’s lawyers explained that the Bureau of Diplomatic Security is “the
primary training institution for [State]” and would possess training
records for Clinton and her aides. The SCI also “has access to SCI electronic
training records.”
“Since
its search of STMS, the Cyber Security Administration database, and SCI
electronic training records did not locate training certifications, then no such
courses were completed,” both
DOJ officials concluded.
Stein
said that the same is true concerning the Bureau of Diplomatic Security records. “If
DS’s search of the SCI training records did not locate any training records for
an individual, then the training was not completed,” he stated in his
affidavit before the court.
Nevertheless
the DCNF is still seeking records that confirm Clinton and her top aides
completed mandatory security briefings on the handling of classified materials
and on the proper way to engage in secure communications.
When
the State Department released only a few documents to The DCNF earlier this
year, the news organization asked the department to search the private hard
drives of the computers operated by Clinton and her aides.
State
was not obligated “to conduct an additional search of individual-specific or shared
drives for copies of the requested training certifications, because such certifications, if they existed, would be retained in the databases and records systems
previously searched,” the Justice
Department filed before the court.
“The
State Department, under penalty of perjury, effectively just threw the former
Secretary of State Clinton and her aides under the bus for failing to do what
all State Department officials are required to do,” said Bradley Moss, a
national security attorney who handled The DCNF case.
DOJ lawyers
also explained that the Cybersecurity Administration database further “contains
records of all online training activity specifically related to the
Department’s Cyber Security Awareness course.”
“There
is no real wiggle room in the affidavit submitted by the State Department. If
the training records are not there, then Secretary Clinton and her aides never
did the required training to be certified. Period,” he said.
All
government officials within the national security establishment must take
annual reviews of the handling of classified materials. Some of the reviews are conducted in
face-to-face briefings and others are in online sessions.
“You have to complete paperwork.
You have to have face-to-face briefings,” recalled retired Col.
James Williamson, a former Army Special Operations Forces officer and
co-founder of OPSEC, a nonpartisan organization of Special Operations and
intelligence officers.
“There’s
must be an electronic record,” Williamson recalled in an interview with The DCNF.
“I would get a nastygram if I didn’t complete my online course. I have to
make sure every year my employees would take the online course.”
He called
the latest information about Clinton “just mind-boggling.”
State
Department records released to The DCNF show that Cheryl Mills and Jacob Sullivan,
two top Clinton aides, took cybersecurity awareness courses just once, but not
for the required four years.
The
records show Clinton and aide Huma Abedin never took any cybersecurity
awareness training at all.
Last March retired Lt. General Michael T.
Flynn, President Barack Obama’s former director of the Defense Intelligence
Agency, told The DCNF that the State Department should suspend her unofficial security
clearance. He said the former secretary of state should be denied “any
access to any classified or sensitive information.”
This
was echoed by Williamson. Her security clearance “absolutely should be pulled.
There is no way this woman should be trusted with classified documents,
period,” he told The DCNF.
This discovery
also could play a role in the State Department’s re-opening of an internal
investigation of Clinton and her aides over their handling of classified
materials.
The
new State Department internal probe was announced after Comey declined to call
for an indictment of Clinton over her use of a private email server to conduct
official State Department business. The FBI noted that 22 unsecured emails found on Clinton’s private server were classified- “Top Secret.”
THE BOTTOM LINE: Donald
Trump is once again absolutely correct when he says Hillary Clinton is a
Criminal. “Criminal Hillary,” says
the Donald. Hillary Clinton operated all
four years as Secretary of State without any Security Clearance
whatsoever. And yet she handled top
security information. No wonder she
bungled it, she had no idea what she was doing.
And how much of that top secret information was leaked to her
benefactors the Saudis who financed the (9/11) terrorist attack against the
United States, and who supports ISIS, and spread their Wahhabist Terrorist
Islamic Jihad all over the world.
And then there is the billion dollars’ worth
of arms Hillary shipped through Bengasi Libya that the State Department sent to
the so-called Syrian Rebels who turned out to be ISIS. Why
isn’t she being arrested and tried for Treason?
Answer…that would take a government that wasn’t corrupt. If Hillary goes down they all go down. I would love to go visit all of them in
GITMO.
Dirty hands --- Dirty tricks --- Dirty
lady!
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