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from senator clinton and to release a report from the state department to finalize their administrative review with those hundreds of security violations. that review found five things first 91 invalid securityif violations with those 38 individuals. that means 30 individuals mishandled classifiedun information and were punished and that included suspension and revocation of security clearance and suspension without pay or termination among other forms of
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punishment. an additional 497 violations wereif identified and the state department was unable to determine who was culpable. the state department identify the culpability and all because secretary clinton kept her server secret from governmental officials so it was impossible to monitor security protocol in real time. with a five and nine year gap from the state department tenure and when she finally turns over the e-mails which
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she refused to do. and it makes it very challenging for every violation of regulation in law and from classification. in total secretary clinton's use ofgo nongovernment server for government business cause 588 security violations for mishandling classified information. some of that classified information was at the very highest levels including top secret special access program information. according to the fbi secretary clinton sent and received
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e-mails that contain highly classified information. and now it's hard to fathom to undermine national security. the average american didid that they would lose theirhe clearance, their job and might even go to j jail. that's what happened to the navy sailor, christian, took six photographs that exposed information that was classified at the confidential level. he mishandled misinformation. and how come some people go to prison for violation of classification and others
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don't? the review found secretary clinton nongovernmental servic service, server increase the risk of unauthorized exposures. the review found the nongovernment server increased the risk of security compromise. that private server set up that it's almost impossible to gain access that anyone could have done it. and at last the review found some classified information was deliberately transferred and resulted in adjudicated
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security violations. and with that state department finding that there was no persuasive evidence with the mishandling of classified information". if the washington post their headline the state department with the mishandling of classified information. will that headline was entirely wrong. the state department report said "instances of classified information being deliberately transmitted through unclassified e-mails was the
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rare exception with the adjudicated security clearance. that statement clearly says some individuals deliberately transferred classified information on unclassified systems. those were subject to securities sanctions but the state department for - - failed to describe what those sanctions were in those consequently i intend to follow up to ensure the proper handling of highly classified information is an issue that
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should garner bipartisan support this may sound like history but there is a lesson to be learned that classified information is for protecting national security. furthermore if government officials expose that with our system why did they find the same during the investigation? then director comey refused to recommend any charges related to the clinton investigation because the fbi could not identify criminal intent. deliberately sending classified information on unclassified channels is intentional conduct. again if the average american did that it would be in big
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big trouble as i pointed out the navy sailor spent one year in prison. during the course of my oversight activities i required one - - acquired of the comey public statement exonerating clinton. with the initial draft it stated the following. "there is evidence to support a conclusion that secretary clinton and others used a private e-mail server in a manner that was grossly negligent. with respect to the handling of classified material". comey also said "similarly , the sheer volume of information classified as secret at the time it was discussed onn e-mail that is
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excluding the unclassified e-mails, supports the inference that the participants were grossly negligent in handling of that and one - - information information"gross negligence that i use words by comey is a criminal standard title s 18 section 793. now later he dumbed down his statement to a noncriminal standard "although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws handling classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of the highly classified
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information". that was before he and finish the investigation and interviewed 17 witnesses including secretary clinton. director comey never once said as they deliberately sent information on the gunclassified system and according to the state department's findings, comey should have come to that conclusion. clearly that conduct rises beyond gross negligence. so who deliberately sent unclassified information cracks let me start over. so who deliberatelyat sent classified information on unclassified channels and has
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the department adjudicated this new finding to the fbi? just last week i spoke on this for about how the fbi pulled punches during the clinton investigation. i talked about how the fbi agreed to limit the scope of review to her time as secretary of state. that decision eliminated potentially highly irrelevant e-mails before and after her ten year that could have shed light on why she operated the nongovernment server. it also eliminated e-mails around the time of the conference call between clinton's attorneys and the administrator of her server that led to the deletion of e-mails. that scope defies reason.
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and lastly the fbi agreed to destroy records andnd laptop laptops, clinton's associates after reviewing them. and in light of those records could have been relevant to ongoing congressional inquiries that the fbi knew about. secretary clinton's actions caused 588 security violations and highly classified information to be exposed to a non- classified system. some of those were very deliberate that that is the first we heard of it. the public ought to know if they were punished according to the letter of the law were given special treatment. equal application without regard to power or party or
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privilege ought to be the norm. and what we know up to this point the clinton investigation failed to hit its mark. i suggest the absence of a quorum. she graduated from florida state university and earned her law degree from lake forest. serving in a north carolina state senate 1989 until january 2009 when she became a us senator. kay hagan was 66.
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