Cotton: Clinton staff may not pass security clearance

Published August 2, 2016 4:01pm ET



Hillary Clinton’s staffers may not qualify for security clearances in the event she gets elected and brings them to the White House, according to a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, due to their involvement with Clinton’s mishandling of classified information.

“It’s a real question whether Jake Sullivan, Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, and some of Hillary Clinton’s other senior State Department advisors could get a security clearance going through the traditional background checks based merely on what we know from the publicly released emails that they sent and received from Secretary Clinton on that server,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said in a Tuesday interview with Hugh Hewitt.

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