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Hillary Clinton's Security Clearance Removed 'At Her Request'

Hillary Clinton's security clearance revoked

Hillary Clinton's security clearance was withdrawn by the State Department 'at her request' over the summer amid an investigation into the the former secretary of state's use of a private email server, the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed Friday. 

In a letter dated Sept. 21 and sent to the leadership of the Committee, the State Department wrote that Clinton's clearance was withdrawn on Aug. 30. The letter does not state Clinton's reasons why she requested the agency withdraw her clearance, but the request came just days after President Donald Trump revoked the clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan

At the time, Trump said he was thinking about pulling the security clearances of other Obama-era officials, but did not mention Clinton. 

The letter, published by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, comes as part of an update of the State Department's ongoing review of "mishandling of classified information related to the use of Clinton’s non-government email server."

The letter also lists five Clinton aides who also requested that their security clearances be withdrawn. Those names, with the exception of Clinton's former Chief-of-Staff at the State Department, Cheryl Mills, were redacted. 

"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.

The State Department also said that "tens of thousands of documents" had been obtained by the agency and were currently reviewing them for any "classified content." Documents that are found to contain any material that was classified will be sent and examined by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. 

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