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CIA freezes out top Flynn aide
Politico ^ | February 10, 2017 | Kenneth P. Vogel and Josh Dawsey

Posted on 02/11/2017 2:57:31 AM PST by Pinkbell

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To: LegendHasIt

Like the four Muslims working for Democrats? No big deal there!


41 posted on 02/11/2017 8:56:15 AM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc

Plenty of federal employees have dual citizenship and hold ‘top’ secret clearances. I know 3 myself.

There are examples of individuals serving in foreign paramilitaries and then holding senior Obama White House positions with ( very likely) top security clearances.

Under no circumstance should a dual citizen be able to hold any security clearance


42 posted on 02/11/2017 9:15:31 AM PST by vooch
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To: MayflowerMadam
No case-by-case examination for people with dual citizenships. In fact, no dual citizenships. Choose ONE country, and drop citizenship in the other. If a person can’t love, and be loyal to, the USA 100%, then there’s a problem.

I'll chose citizenship in heaven and you choose citizenship in the USA.
43 posted on 02/11/2017 11:18:13 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: vooch
Under no circumstance should a dual citizen be able to hold any security clearance

Precisely the view of some agencies with respect to certain Christians; they are not trusted because of dual loyalties between God and Caesar.
44 posted on 02/11/2017 11:21:40 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Pinkbell

Where do you think the conversations of Flynn and the Russsian Ambassador that were leaked came from? Obviously from within the US intel community.

Well, we now know they are out to get him.


45 posted on 02/11/2017 8:43:23 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: vooch

Dual citizenship shoul not even be allowed. When did it start? No voting in our elections, at least.


46 posted on 02/12/2017 5:11:35 PM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever.,)
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To: Freee-dame

Dual Citizenship has always existed. However, only in recent period has it become an issue with so many globe trotting families.

My concern is how can a dual citizen hold top security clearances ? How can someone with openly sworn divided loyalty be trusted to keep our countries interests first ?

Even if the individual is a dual Canadian-US citizen there are serious questions if divided loyalty, much less Chinese-US or Egypt-US.

It’s confusing that this is even a question.


47 posted on 02/12/2017 10:11:27 PM PST by vooch
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To: vooch

If we can grant TS//SCI clearances with multiple compartments to foreign nationals - which we do routinely (Five Eyes - FVEY), we can certainly grant the same level of access to a fully-vetted US Marine who is holding officially sanctioned dual citizenship. The US routinely exchanges some of the most highly-classified information there is with our closest allies and we have done so for years.


48 posted on 02/13/2017 7:05:29 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Vaquero

Keep in mind that a substantial proportion of CIA employees, especially those outside the National Clandestine Service (NCS), are Ivy League graduates - particularly from Harvard. The Agency has been recruiting heavily from the Ivy League for a long time and if you’ve dealt with any of their “analysts” in recent years, you’d know they’re very liberal and dumb as a stump, with no real experience in much of anything - kind of like the NSC staff.


49 posted on 02/13/2017 7:12:16 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: VermithraxPejorative

One other point to keep in mind: There is a direct and inextricable relationship between the CIA and the State Department and the degrees of separation between the two is vanishingly small. Mike Flynn, whom I happen to know, poses a real threat to the status quo in the IC. He’s one of a very small number of senior Military leaders who refused to play politics and knows the Intelligence Community, its capabilities and limitations, and all its warts from a strategic and tactical perspective.

See: https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/fixing-intel-a-blueprint-for-making-intelligence-relevant-in-afghanistan

Mike wrote this report and published it via CNAS in direct violation of DoD policy. Conclude from that what you like, but he’s a guy who is committed to doing the right things for the right reasons.


50 posted on 02/13/2017 7:22:02 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Covenantor

People can have dual citizenship and not know it. The idea that someone who moved here as a baby and lived here all their life is less patriotic, by genetics, than Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama is absurd.


51 posted on 02/13/2017 7:26:50 AM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: ManHunter

wrong wrong wrong

divided loyalty is still divided loyalty

America First


52 posted on 02/13/2017 9:20:12 AM PST by vooch
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To: vooch

What, precisely, is wrong and what has Flynn supposedly done that would indicate a divided loyalty?


53 posted on 02/13/2017 3:33:40 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: ManHunter

flynn ?

not


54 posted on 02/13/2017 7:53:48 PM PST by vooch
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To: Pinkbell

One of the sources said the rejection was approved by Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump’s CIA director, and that it infuriated Flynn and his allies.

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One of these sources?

More Fake News. He probably already had the clearance or some jive thing. More OdumbiFolk leaks. Got to get rid of all those OdumbiFolk.


55 posted on 02/14/2017 5:30:24 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: Pinkbell

The CIA FREEZED HIM OUT BECAUSE IF THEY HAD GIVEN HIM SCI CLEARANCE THEN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET INTO THE SCIF AREAS AND FIND OUT WHO WAS LEAKING TS SCI INFO. SIMPLE.

IN FACT HE PROBABLY HAD THE CLEARANCE BUT WAS DENIED ACCESS ON A NEED TO KNOW BASIS.


56 posted on 02/14/2017 5:26:58 PM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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