Charles McCullough, the Intelligence Community Inspector General appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2011, claims he was ‘marginalized and threatened’ when he voiced concerns about Hillary Clinton’s private emails.
McCullough said he contacted James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence at the time about his concerns, but received “personal blowback… to my family [and] my office.”
In an interview with Fox News’ Catherine Herridge, he also said that others informed him that he would be one of the first firings under a potential President Clinton.
McCullough claimed, “Emails beyond Top Secret passed through the unsecured server.”
For raising that concern – a national security concern to the Director of National Intelligence – his family and job were threatened.
Indeed, the Political Insider reported on McCullough’s finding that documents “beyond top secret” were being shared on the server back in January of 2016, a claim Clinton officials said demonstrated he was coordinating releases of information to help Republicans.
They didn’t refute his claims, rather, they pointed a finger for sharing information with Republicans. It wasn’t just with Republicans, however, whom he made those claims to.
In a letter to Congress, McCullough wrote, “These declarations cover several dozen emails containing classified information determined … to be at the confidential, secret and top secret/SAP levels.”
Charles McCullough raised the alarm to DNI #Clapper regarding classified info in @HillaryClinton‘s emails & their harm to National Security…So who do we hold accountable now? #Obama? #Clinton? #Lynch? #Clapper? #ALLOFTHEABOVE
— gardenofthegodsن (@gardenofthegods) November 28, 2017
“It was told in no uncertain terms, by a source directly from the campaign, that we would be the first two to be fired — with [Clinton’s] administration. That that was definitely going to happen,” McCullough said.
How could the Clinton campaign fire the Intelligence Community Inspector General?
Former Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough III said Clinton campaign planned to fire him over email probe.
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) November 28, 2017
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff seemingly made a threat to McCullough’s job in an interview with Chris Wallace.
“I think the inspector general does risk his reputation,” Schiff said, seemingly unaware of the damage being done to his own reputation by defending Clinton.
“And once you lose that as inspector general, you’re not much good to anyone,” he continued. “So I think the inspector general has to be very careful here.”
In short, ‘That’s a nice job you have there, it would be a shame if something happened to it.’
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