BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton gives up her security clearance in wake of email scandal and cancels permission for five aides to look at state secrets as 'researchers'
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released a letter from the State Department on Friday, confirming that Clinton, former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and four other unnamed staffers lost their access to state secrets on September 20.
- Clinton and five aides still had security clearances
- She left the State Department nearly six years ago
- Famously operated private unsecured server for government emails
- The aides were cleared as 'researchers'; Clinton asked State to cancel theirs too
- State Department letter reveals she asked clearance be withdrawn August 30
- That was days after President Trump revoked former CIA Director John Brennan's clearance
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released a letter from the State Department on Friday, confirming that Clinton, former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and four other unnamed staffers lost their access to state secrets on September 20.