On January 19th, Fox News published an exclusively-obtained, unclassified letter written by I. Charles McCullough III, the Intelligence Community Inspector General for the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). His letter summarized the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that identified "several dozen" previously unreported classified e-mails stored on Clinton's "secret" (yet unsecure) server that until 2013 was managed by Justin Cooper, an aide to former President Bill Clinton. According to published accounts, that server was kept in a home closet, and Cooper held no security clearance, and he had no expertise in computer security or classified document handling procedures. HRC later contracted privately with Platte River Networks, which was a continuing violation of both departmental procedures and Federal law (since their system was outside of official secure channels).

Most importantly, the "several dozen" e-mails quite obviously included intelligence products for Top Secret Special Access Programs (SAPs), also known as compartmented access intelligence and conversationally called "TS Codeword" material in intelligence circles. These intelligence gathering and analysis programs have "sources and methods" that are so sensitive that they carry the blanket proviso that any compromise to this compartmented information would cause "irreparable injury" to the security of the United States. Often erroneously referred to in the mass media as "Above Top Secret", they are in fact collateral to Top Secret, but SCI access is very strictly guarded, and special codeword or corresponding acronym markings are used at the top and bottom of every page of these documents. In order to have Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), an individual must first have a Top Secret security clearance following a Special Background Investigation (SBI). Note that someone only gets a very expensive SBI if the intent is to give them potential access to one or more SCI programs.

It is apparent that HRC made repeated gross breaches of both national security policy and Federal law. After reading the news reports, I can only ask:

1. Why, after all these months, has HRC not been interviewed by the FBI about this? (She recently claimed that she still hasn't been interviewed by the FBI.)

2. Why hasn't she been "read off" of SCI and had her security clearance revoked? (If anyone else had done anything even remotely approaching the level of her alleged crimes, then that would have happened immediately after the investigation began (not to mention that the individual would probably have been arrested, advised of their rights, polygraphed, and confined without bail).

3. Why wasn't it until August of 2105 that Hillary's secret e-mail server was finally seized by the FBI? (News of the private server was made public in March of 2015, but word of it had been circulating inside the Beltway much longer.)

4. Why hasn't a House or Senate Intelligence subcommittee been assigned to specifically investigate the potential damage that the "several dozen" e-mails containing SCI material could have caused or has caused, if it was somehow surreptitiously accessed? (Again, these were SCI products or summaries thereof that were stored on a non-secure server in a closet in a private home, not in a government facility, and that server was entirely outside of the DCI's control procedure/channels. Furthermore, it was managed by a private contracted individual who had no security clearance!)

5. It has been reported that more than 100 Federal agents (mostly from the FBI) have been assigned to this case full time, for many months. With so many people working on this for so long, and with such abundant evidence, why haven't any formal charges been made?