Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were forced to seek additional security clearances just to read about the highly classified material discovered on Hillary Clinton’s private server.
The information, which was uncovered by the intelligence community inspector general and described to Congress in a letter last week, required some lawmakers with “top secret” clearances to sign additional non-disclosure agreements, Fox News reported Thursday.
Even Charles McCullough, the intelligence community inspector general who found the highly sensitive material, had to be “read on” to what is known as a “special access program” just to view a declaration about the emails, according to an earlier NBC report.
The discovery of “special access programs” intelligence on Clinton’s server has reignited a national controversy over her handling of classified material that had begun to die down in the months after the FBI opened an investigation into the matter.
Clinton’s campaign dismissed the new findings Wednesday by arguing McCullough had coordinated with Senate Republicans to leak the fact that she had transmitted information classified above “top secret.”
