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The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clintons private email, reviving a politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election, current and former officials said.
As many as 130 officials have been contacted in recent weeks by State Department investigators a list that includes senior officials who reported directly to Clinton as well as others in lower-level jobs whose emails were at some point relayed to her inbox, said current and former State Department officials. Those targeted were notified that emails they sent years ago have been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations, according to letters reviewed by The Washington Post.
State Department investigators began contacting the former officials about 18 months ago, after President Trumps election, and then seemed to drop the effort before picking it up in August, officials said.
To many of those under scrutiny, including some of the Democratic Partys top foreign policy experts, the recent flurry of activity surrounding the Clinton email case represents a new front on which the Trump administration could be accused of employing the powers of the executive branch against perceived political adversaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-dept-intensifies-email-probe-of-hillary-clintons-former-aides/2019/09/28/9f15497e-e1f2-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html
JFC.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)Now the House Intelligence Committee needs to get all of Ivanka and Jared's personal emails sent from the WH.
Arkansas Granny
(31,516 posts)Takket
(21,568 posts)well they've already shit over everything else in the constitution, so why not ex post facto laws too?
SunSeeker
(51,555 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,345 posts)wishstar
(5,269 posts)So this is the angle someone came up with to try and find something with which to threaten criminal indictments of Hillary or other Democrats who worked at State Dept during her tenure. By retroactively labeling emails as classified that weren't originally classified in order to smear her and the other officials so the sicko can lash out to keep his base ramped up.
blm
(113,061 posts)Raven123
(4,842 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)This is a pr stunt at best because any court would toss this bullshit right out.
Talitha
(6,589 posts)who on God's earth would swallow this idea of a retroactive classification?
My, my, my... he's really popped his cork this time.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)/eyeroll
How much taxpayer money is this latest boondoggle costing us? They blew $7 million on Benghazi and came up with bupkis.
Cha
(297,220 posts)how the rw government wastes on NOTHING.:storm;