GOP faces tough odds to revoke Clinton’s clearance

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-intelligence-security-briefings-225256


GOP faces tough odds to revoke Clinton’s clearance

Republicans are pressuring the Obama administration to deny Clinton access to traditional campaign intelligence briefings.

By Cory Bennett and Martin Matishak

07/07/16 04:41 PM EDT
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The GOP’s newly launched quest to deny Hillary Clinton access to traditional presidential campaign security briefings is unlikely to succeed, according to former intelligence officials and classification policy experts.

On Thursday, Republican lawmakers introduced a bill and fired off several letters to the Obama administration in an attempt to revoke the clearances of Clinton and several of her top aides, and bar them from the classified security briefings that major party presidential nominees have received for decades.

The push comes days after FBI Director James Comey said he would not recommend bringing charges against Clinton for her mishandling of classified information on private servers used during her time as secretary of State.

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The GOP’s newly launched quest to deny Hillary Clinton access to traditional presidential campaign security briefings is unlikely to succeed, according to former intelligence officials and classification policy experts.

They know it won't accomplish anything.  But meaningless gestures are all the GOP leadership knows how to do.