Letter from Senator Inhofe Regarding Clinton Email Crimes

[Hankelvis]

Dear Hankelvis,

Thank you for contacting me regarding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her service as the United States Secretary of State.

I agree with you and State Department officials that Secretary Clinton’s use of a private server and email address was inappropriate. By using a private email server, Secretary Clinton was able to avoid regulations established by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that mandates federal records, including emails, be stored and archived. There is no reason to use a personal email address for official business, especially when doing so compromises the security of the United States. It at least appears that her use of a non-official email address was to hide incriminating emails.

As a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I cosponsored the Taking Responsibility Using Secured Technologies (TRUST) Act (S.3135), which would revoke former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security clearance as well as the security clearances of Sec. Clinton’s colleagues at the State Department because they exhibited extreme carelessness in their handling of classified information.

The legislation follows the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) investigation into Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system in her capacity as Secretary of State. In an announcement this July, FBI Director James Comey said that “there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information” and “none of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff.”

The FBI uncovered several thousand additional emails related to her position, some of which contained classified material, that were not included in the 30,000 emails Clinton handed over to the State Department. Comey concluded the FBI’s findings with “we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.”

Given that sensitive information impacting our nation’s security is now likely in the hands of individuals or foreign governments who could use it to harm us or our assets around the world, to not hold her and her staff accountable for their ‘gross negligence’ further erodes the public’s trust in our institutions and sets a dangerous precedent for how our nation’s secrets are handled. The TRUST Act will protect our classified material by revoking Sec. Clinton’s security clearance, and those of her staff, until they earn the legal right to access that information.

Equally as troubling, is the fact that the head of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the federal agency charged with overseeing the investigation in to Secretary Clinton’s emails, met privately with former president Bill Clinton before the FBI recommended that DOJ not prosecute Secretary Clinton. Due to the importance of this investigation and the fact that a former cabinet member was the subject of the investigation, it was my belief that a special prosecutor should have been appointed to ensure that there was not even an appearance of impropriety and that the investigation would be independent of any political pressure from the administration. Unfortunately, this did not happen and questions and doubts remain.

Again, thank you for taking the time to express your concern. If you are interested in keeping up with my work in the Senate, I invite you to sign up for my newsletter by visiting HYPERLINK "http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsletter/sign-up" http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsletter/sign-up Please feel free to contact me again in the future about this or any other issue.

Sincerely,

James M. Inhofe
United States Senator

[Virginia Foulk]

Very good information - seems there is even more.

DHS - main actors, including Jeh Johnson were also allowed to use Government emails for their personal emails. Even after the regulations were created against such - in 2014.  Johnson and his cohorts were given exemptions.  Finally, a year later their exemptions were also revoked.  So, our security was also compromised by our own Homeland security. 

I read this from Judicial Watch September 2016 print, under their "court report - Homeland Security Officials Exempted From Ban On Web-Based Email Account"

Results of this behavior?  14 Trojan-horse attacks in August 2013 and 25 attacks in December 2013 (only ones admitted as of this publication.)