‘The Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan has formally requested that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton be denied access to classified information for the rest of her campaign in the wake of the email scandal.

“As a former vice presidential nominee, I am keenly aware that Secretary Clinton is set to begin receiving classified intelligence briefings after the Democratic National Convention,” Ryan said Thursday in a letter to the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

“There is no legal requirement for you to provide Secretary Clinton with classified information, and it would send the wrong signal to all those charged with safeguarding our nation’s secrets if you choose to provide her access to this information despite the FBI’s findings,” Ryan noted.’

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