Hillary Clinton Still Has Security Clearance?

Hillary Clinton and her staffers still have active State Department security clearances, meaning they still have access to classified intelligence, according to Fox News’ Malia Zimmerman.

However, Clinton and her aides are in danger of losing that access now that the State Department has opened a “formal inquiry” into whether she and her team mishandled classified information when she served at the top spot at Foggy Bottom.

It’s the latest development in a very long story involving Clinton and her use of an unauthorized private State Department email server.

It’s unclear when this new inquiry by the State Department was first launched, but it seems to have come on the heels of former FBI Director James Comey’s announcement in July 2016 that he’d recommend no charges be brought against Clinton for her ethically dubious use of a homebrew server.

Fox’s Zimmerman outlined one possible consequence of the new inquiry, writing, “Depending on the outcome of the current State Department inquiry, Clinton and her aides could have their access to sensitive government documents terminated.”

To be clear, it’s not unusual for former senior officials to maintain some level of access to classified information, as national security attorney Bradley Moss explained Wednesday to LawNewz.com. This is done with the idea that former officials can be called on to advise on issues involving sensitive intelligence.

However, it may still strike some as odd that Clinton and her aides have maintained their clearance despite that Comey himself characterized her handling of classified State information as “extremely reckless.” The State Department’s own Inspector General even reported her private server was a serious violation of department policy.

“At a minimum, Secretary Clinton should have surrendered all emails dealing with department business before leaving government service and, because she did not do so, she did not comply with the Department’s policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act,” the IG’s report said.

If the State Department revokes Clinton’s clearance, she can appeal the decision. However, it seems unlikely it’ll come to that, according to Moss.

“It would be unusual for this to happen for a senior official … but Clinton’s behavior was unusual as well,” he said.

A Clinton spokesman meanwhile downplayed news of the new inquiry and suggested that going after the private server story is tantamount to beating a dead horse.

“Nothing’s been more thoroughly dissected. It’s over. Case closed. Literally,” Nick Merrill told Fox.

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Bitcoin Earned: Why I Earn Bitcoins Instead of Buying Them

What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a consensus network that enables a new payment system and a completely digital money. It is the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network that is powered by its users with no central authority or middlemen. From a user perspective, Bitcoin is pretty much like cash for the Internet. Bitcoin can also be seen as the most prominent triple entry bookkeeping system in existence.

Who created Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is the first implementation of a concept called “cryptocurrency”, which was first described in 1998 by Wei Dai on the cypherpunks mailing list, suggesting the idea of a new form of money that uses cryptography to control its creation and transactions, rather than a central authority. The first Bitcoin specification and proof of concept was published in 2009 in a cryptography mailing list by Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi left the project in late 2010 without revealing much about himself. The community has since grown exponentially with many developers working on Bitcoin.

Satoshi’s anonymity often raised unjustified concerns, many of which are linked to misunderstanding of the open-source nature of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin protocol and software are published openly and any developer around the world can review the code or make their own modified version of the Bitcoin software. Just like current developers, Satoshi’s influence was limited to the changes he made being adopted by others and therefore he did not control Bitcoin. As such, the identity of Bitcoin’s inventor is probably as relevant today as the identity of the person who invented paper.

Who controls the Bitcoin network?

Nobody owns the Bitcoin network much like no one owns the technology behind email. Bitcoin is controlled by all Bitcoin users around the world. While developers are improving the software, they can’t force a change in the Bitcoin protocol because all users are free to choose what software and version they use. In order to stay compatible with each other, all users need to use software complying with the same rules. Bitcoin can only work correctly with a complete consensus among all users. Therefore, all users and developers have a strong incentive to protect this consensus.

How does Bitcoin work?

From a user perspective, Bitcoin is nothing more than a mobile app or computer program that provides a personal Bitcoin wallet and allows a user to send and receive bitcoins with them. This is how Bitcoin works for most users.

Behind the scenes, the Bitcoin network is sharing a public ledger called the “block chain”. This ledger contains every transaction ever processed, allowing a user’s computer to verify the validity of each transaction. The authenticity of each transaction is protected by digital signatures corresponding to the sending addresses, allowing all users to have full control over sending bitcoins from their own Bitcoin addresses. In addition, anyone can process transactions using the computing power of specialized hardware and earn a reward in bitcoins for this service. This is often called “mining”. To learn more about Bitcoin, you can consult the dedicated page and the original paper.

Is Bitcoin really used by people?

Yes. There are a growing number of businesses and individuals using Bitcoin. This includes brick-and-mortar businesses like restaurants, apartments, and law firms, as well as popular online services such as Namecheap, Overstock.com, and Reddit. While Bitcoin remains a relatively new phenomenon, it is growing fast. At the end of April 2017, the total value of all existing bitcoins exceeded 20 billion US dollars, with millions of dollars worth of bitcoins exchanged daily.

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