So Paul Ryan can occasionally hit the ball out of the park. I totally missed this storyl!!

By Stephen Dinan, July 5, 2016

The government should deny Hillary Clinton the regular national security briefings presidential nominees generally receive, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Tuesday night.
Mr. Ryan also said the House will hold hearings and demand that FBI Director James B. Comey testify about why, after laying out a case against Mrs. Clinton’s secret email server, he refused to recommend charges against her.
“I think the DNI, the director of national intelligence, should block her access to classified information,” Mr. Ryan said on Fox News.

Earlier Tuesday, Mr. Comey announced the findings of the FBI’s yearlong investigation, saying Mrs. Clinton’s secret email account could well have been hacked by enemy agents. He said she did, in fact, send and receive information that was classified at the time she handled it.
Mr. Comey said Mrs. Clinton may well have broken laws but he would recommend that the Justice Department not pursue charges against her. He said he didn’t think anyone else had been successfully prosecuted for that level of offense.

Mr. Ryan said the FBI will have to turn over its investigative files so Congress, and voters, can see how Mr. Comey made his recommendation.
He also said that if Mrs. Clinton isn’t prosecuted, she should have her access to secret information cut off: a severe embarrassment to any presidential candidate but a step President Obama’s political appointees, who control those decisions, are unlikely to take.

Even if Mrs. Clinton faces no punishment, Mr. Ryan said Mr. Comey poked holes in the version of events she has given since news of her secret email account broke last year.
Mr. Comey said she did send and receive information that had classified markings at the time she handled it. He also said she did pose a risk of top-secret information falling into enemy hands and that she and her attorneys failed to return all work-related emails to the State Department, despite her insistence to the contrary.

“He shredded the case that she’s been making all year long,” Mr. Ryan said.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016...d-be-denied-in/

Trump should follow up on this! TM

also on the topic of security briefings.... amazing! this article written before Comey's damning testimony!!!

US intelligence officials concerned about briefing Trump, Clinton
By Kristina Wong - 06/02/16


Some U.S. intelligence officials are worried about providing a routine intelligence briefing to Donald Trump once he becomes the official Republican presidential nominee, according to a report.

Eight senior security officials told Reuters they were concerned that Trump's "shoot from the hip" style could pose national security risks, as they prepare to give him a routine pre-election briefing for presidential nominees.

They also cited his lack of foreign policy experience, and his little known team of foreign policy advisers.

"People are very nervous," one senior U.S. security official said.

However, the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss a political domestic issue, said they would not deviate from the usual "Top Secret" briefing format, to avoid any appearance of bias.

Current and formal officials also expressed concern over briefing Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, according to Reuters.

They cited the scandal over her use of emails when she was secretary of State and her handling of sensitive information. She is currently facing an FBI probe over whether she compromised security and broke laws over her use of a private email server for government work at State.

"The only candidate who has proven incapable of handling sensitive information is Hillary Clinton," Michael Short, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, told Reuters. "If there is anyone they should be worried about it is Hillary Clinton."

Some officials told Reuters that little harm could be done, because the traditional briefing is mostly a broad overview of national security issues and does not contain the most sensitive government secrets.

"If he reads the papers every day, he won't hear much that will surprise him," one U.S. intelligence official told Reuters.

Still, nominees are warned not to share the briefing's contents, which include detailed intelligence assessments.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/282012...g-trump-clinton

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Note to TM:

Please don't use the word 'brief' and 'Hillary Clinton' in the same sentence ever again.

The mental images it generates are horrific. Thank you

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