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House Republicans move to strip security clearances from any official who said in 2020 that the release of Hunter Biden's emails had 'classic earmarks of a Russian information operation'
Business Insider ^ | Jun 22, 2023 | Brent D. Griffiths

Posted on 06/22/2023 4:40:39 PM PDT by Robwin

House Republicans are moving to effectively strip security clearances from any intelligence or defense official who signed on to an October 2020 statement that raised the question of whether the release of Hunter Biden's emails was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

As part of a much-larger bill funding US defense, Republicans on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense proposed prohibiting any funding to grant, renew, or maintain a security clearance for any official who signed the statement.

More than 50 former intelligence officials, including former CIA Directors Mike Hayden, Leon Panetta, and John Brennan, signed the letter raising questions about the then newly published New York Post story concerning emails from Biden's laptop. Politico reported at the time that the letter was provided to the publication by Nick Shapiro, a former top aide under Brennan.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: aboutfreakingtime; bouttime; disinformation; frpottymouths; securityclearances
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To: smokingfrog

“Anyone who signed that letter should be cut ...”

with a very sharp guillotine.


21 posted on 06/22/2023 6:22:52 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Chode

Yep.


22 posted on 06/22/2023 6:27:35 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: eyeamok

What you said.


23 posted on 06/22/2023 6:44:30 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy ("Man is the only pack animal that will follow an unstable leader." Cesar Chavetz)
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To: Robwin

People have an Amendment I right to utter BS.

Joe Biden has a right to utter nonsense.

AOC has a right to utter nonsense.

Elizabeth Warren has a right to utter nonsense.

Professor Marxist has a right to teach nonsense if his employer thinks he ought to.

Al Gore has a right to claim polar bears are doomed unless the US spends $40 trillion on Chinese green technology.


24 posted on 06/22/2023 6:46:21 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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To: Thank You Rush

“I don’t understand WHY anyone not in an administration any longer still has security clearances.”

I think people retain the clearance but lose any need to know once they become unemployed. A clearance might readily be reactivated for a few years after leaving a clearance-based job. I would probably have to undergo a new background check to get back the clearances I had 37 years ago.

If someone switches jobs, the new employer has to get the clearance reactivated I believe.

As I understand things, Trump would have had to request the Biden administration the reactivate his clearance. I don’t think Trump can see his still classified archive materials since Biden I understand didn’t reactivate Trump’s clearance after Trump left office.


25 posted on 06/22/2023 7:00:34 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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To: Robwin

And the “classic earmarks” are?


26 posted on 06/22/2023 7:03:11 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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To: Reily

In my day the SCI endorsement was the ticket to have.

A TS clearance just wasn’t enough for many jobs.


27 posted on 06/22/2023 7:05:17 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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To: Brian Griffin

Any government official, elected or otherwise, any government work should have their clearances suspended or put INACTIVE when they leave their positions. They can be activitated if and when they get a new job requiring it.


28 posted on 06/22/2023 7:09:41 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis in 2024. No Other Choice Works. Trump Needs to Stay Home and Endorse DeSantis.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Yes, it’s still pretty much the case.


29 posted on 06/22/2023 7:20:08 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Robwin

Why do they still have them?


30 posted on 06/22/2023 7:25:09 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Robwin

Not only their clearances, but also their pensions and their freedoms should be stripped.


31 posted on 06/22/2023 7:42:57 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Brian Griffin

The elements of fraud are: a statement that is false, they know it is false, and they obtain a direct benefit from others
believing it to be true.

You might have a right to spew BS, but you don’t have a right to commit fraud.


32 posted on 06/22/2023 7:48:07 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Brian Griffin

Obama is one responsible for questionable actions stripping former presidents of secret service and other perks from the office. Never was there a president who lost his legal right to his classified information. Biden cannot take from Trump or allow Obama to retain a clearance. The clearance is not Biden’s to give. Congress is where any legal decision can be made to revoke a former president. To revoke a former president of a security clearance is in effect a prison sentence or a death sentence.


33 posted on 06/22/2023 8:40:41 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Robwin

Security clearances should have a four year (or less) expiration date once an individual leaves government service.


34 posted on 06/22/2023 9:27:25 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: Thank You Rush

Just because you have a clearance doesn’t mean you get to see classified material. You also have to have a ‘need to know’ the material in question.

I had a security clearance (TS/SSBI) when I was in the Navy as a Cryptologic Technician. I retained that clearance for 5 years, even after I got out of the Navy. However, I no longer had a need to know about any of it. If I got a civilian job, or reentered the navy, it would have been easier with a clearance already in place to reinvestigate and update than to start from scratch.


35 posted on 06/23/2023 5:54:17 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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36 posted on 06/23/2023 7:08:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Robwin

Great idea - should have been done years ago.


37 posted on 06/23/2023 10:35:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black dem thugs, white liberal 'elites', & sexual weirdos - democrat's team against the rest of us)
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