Then-Secretary of State-designate and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton looks at her BlackBerry while on an elevator at the U.S. Capitol January 7, 2009. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Hillary Clinton’s Security Clearance Removed in August, Judiciary Committee Reveals Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security clearance was removed at her request on Aug. 30, according to a letter (pdf) from the State Department to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Clearances for five other people Clinton designated as researchers have also been withdrawn on Sept. 20, including Clinton’s close aide Cheryl Mills, the State Department said in the Sept. 21 letter. The letter blacks out the names of other four other Clinton “researchers” whose security clearances were withdrawn. The State Department has required the Judiciary Committee to protect the information in the letter. The Committee Chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), authorized to release the letter following consultation with the State Department, according to an Oct. 12 news release from the committee. In the letter, the State Department said that a “two-step process” is employed to identify classified information and security incidents in documents which passed through Clinton’s unauthorized email server. The Department’s Bureau of Administration first reviews the documents received from the FBI to identify agency records and determine the current classification of documents. This process was “completing” at the time when the letter was written. A subset of documents identified as containing classified information “was then reviewed” by Diplomatic Security. All identified and valid security incidents have been forwarded to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Office of Personnel Security and Suitability. “All valid security incidents are reviewed by DS [Diplomatic Security] and taken into account every time an individual’s eligibility for access to classified information is considered,” the State Department wrote in the letter. Clinton Private Email Server Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state has become the focus of a criminal probe by the FBI. The FBI’s investigation has been criticized for multiple irregularities, including the drafting by then-FBI Director James Comey of his exoneration statement of Clinton well before the investigation was concluded. Comey had also testified under oath before Congress that he had been instructed by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch to refer to the investigation as a “matter” rather than a “criminal investigation.” The FBI’s probe, which focused on whether classified material was sent via the private email server, was complicated by the fact that at least 33,000 emails were deleted by Clinton’s team. After her lawyers identified the emails to be deleted, Clinton staffer Paul Combetta used a program called BleachBit to permanently delete the emails from the server. In announcing the findings of the FBI’s investigation of Clinton, Comey said at least 110 evaluated emails were deemed to contain classified information. Eight email chains were deemed “top secret” and 36 “secret.” The FBI’s analysis, however, did not include the emails that had been deleted by Clinton’s staff. Jasper Fakkert from the Epoch Times contributed to this report The Associated Press contributed to this report From NTD.tv<doc-sep>The US State Department withdrew former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security clearance at Clinton's request, a letter from the department indicates. The State Department said Clinton's security clearance was "administratively withdrawn" on August 30, along with those of Clinton's top aide, Cheryl Mills, and several others. The action came weeks after President Donald Trump removed former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance over some public remarks Brennan made about the Trump administration. Trump at the time had floated the possibility of revoking others. The US State Department withdrew former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security clearance at Clinton's request, a letter from the department indicates. The State Department said Clinton's security clearance was "administratively withdrawn" on August 30, along with those of Clinton's top aide, Cheryl Mills, and several others. The letter notes that Clinton's aides were able to keep their clearances beyond their time at the State Department because they were designated as "researchers." The action came weeks after President Donald Trump removed former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance over some public remarks Brennan made about the Trump administration. Trump at the time had floated the possibility of revoking others.<doc-sep>In a letter released Friday, the United States State Department has revealed that former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's security clearance was revoked on August 30th upon her request. In a letter given to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the State Department revealed that Sec. Clinton had her clearance removed on Aug. 30 along with "[f]ive others associated with Clinton, including longtime aide Cheryl Mills, who had their clearances revoked on Sep. 20, according to the letter. The aides were known as 'research assistants,' which allowed them to keep their clearances after their time at the department concluded," according to Politico. Politico notes that nearly a year ago, "Grassley asked the department to investigate and review whether Clinton's aides still had security clearance." As noted by the Blaze, Byron York of the Washington Examiner told Fox News that Sec. Clinton may have surrendered her security clearance as a way of taking cover for any malfeasance should she be disciplined for her handling of confidential and government emails as Sec. of State. “Now I think the idea that ‘at her request it was ended’ gives her a way of saying look this wasn’t a disciplinary action, I no longer used it, it’s not something that is important to me anymore,” he told Fox News.<doc-sep>
Hillary Clinton had her security clearance removed over the summer “at her request,” the Senate Judiciary Committee, who received confirmation from the State Department, revealed Friday. The news comes as part of an update from the State Department of “its ongoing review of the mishandling of classified information related to the use of Clinton’s non-government email server,” a news release from the committee said. MICHELLE OBAMA REBUKES HOLDER, CLINTON OVER CALLS FOR POLITICAL WARFARE Five other people labeled by the former secretary of state as being researchers, “including close aide Cheryl Mills,” also lost their clearance, the news release said. The Judiciary Committee released a letter, dated Sept. 21 from the State Department to Chairman Chuck Grassley, detailing their progress in the investigation and the status of Clinton’s clearance, which was “administratively withdrawn” on Aug. 30. Mills and the other four individuals, whose name were redacted from the letter, had their clearance removed on Sept. 20, the letter said. “As we previously informed the committee, these individuals had been granted access to classified information through a request made by Secretary Clinton designating them as researchers, per E.O. 13526, Sec. 4.4(a)(2),” the letter said. OBAMA HAD SECRET PLAN TO VALIDATE CLINTON VICTORY IF TRUMP DIDN’T ACCEPT IT: REPORT The State Department then elaborated in the letter on their review, saying that “tens of thousands of documents” had been obtained and were being “reviewed for classified content.” Any documents determined to include classified material were then sent and examined by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security “and all valid security incidents have been added to the security file for some individuals,” the letter and news release said. Fox News’ Jason Donner contributed to this report.