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The Constitutional Right to a Security Clearance
Steyn On-line ^ | August 17, 2018 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/18/2018 6:41:17 AM PDT by Twotone

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To: Twotone

To Brennan and the rest of his LEFTIST cabal: Put up or shut up.


21 posted on 08/18/2018 7:44:39 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: PIF

I have said before the muslims and the LEFT are simpatico even though they are diametrically opposed to each other in policy.

They are both totalitarian ideologies. However, God forbid, they ever realize their goal of a totalitarian state, the muslims will eat the LEFT alive. And we will end up with an islamic state.


22 posted on 08/18/2018 7:49:29 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: pepsionice

My knowledge is dated by some 30 years, but I know back then a retired three star who had commanded a numbered air force was still offered monthly briefings for as long as he wanted them. I would assume that the “brain trust” then included any 3 and 4 stars that kept an active interest. This probably extended to other branches of the Executive, also.


23 posted on 08/18/2018 7:50:05 AM PDT by CMSMC
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To: Lumper20

And we, the taxpayers, would have the privilege of renewing their clearances every 5 years. Brennan’s muzzy so he’s afraid of not getting classified into to America’s enemies. Same with Hellary. Same with the rest.


24 posted on 08/18/2018 7:56:27 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: odawg

If he’d ignored it, the msm would have ignored it so there wouldn’t be any public embarrassment. Sure, there’s plenty of enemies of the US who could get him the info but he’d have to go through them and perhaps pay for it.


25 posted on 08/18/2018 7:58:20 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Twotone

Liberals certainly love to wax eloquent on things that they have absolutely no knowledge of. The Bible. The Constitution. Morals. Honor. Integrity. Guts. Patriotism. Just to name a few.

Liberals should be taught to understand that “it’s better to be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt”.

Bless their hearts.


26 posted on 08/18/2018 8:00:30 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: joshua c

“...the muslims and the LEFT are simpatico even though they are diametrically opposed to each other in policy.”

Someone on FR called this unholy axis the “hammer and crescent”. Fits; both are totalitarian, anti-West, and hate Christianity, the U.S., and Israel.


27 posted on 08/18/2018 8:13:27 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: bgill

Brennan needs it to make money.

All the more reason to yank it.


28 posted on 08/18/2018 8:17:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: kabar

Bookmark


29 posted on 08/18/2018 8:31:07 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: bgill

Yes. He voted for Gus Hall for Pres at 21. Claims he was young and in college. At his age of 21 I had a TS and was in combat. Commie/Muslim converts like Brennan always have an excuse for lies/misdeeds.


30 posted on 08/18/2018 8:42:25 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Dems rarely serve this country in combat.)
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To: Twotone
This has backfired on Brennan, 'The Swamp', and the left.

Insiders have reaped the benefits of this continued security clearance and exposed it to the public.

Many people are now asking the obvious question. Why should anyone who no longer holds a position in security departments retain their security clearance after they leave?

Brennan has brought unwanted attention to this questionable and difficult to justify practice.

It's time to have a conversation as to why this happens, the alleged benefits, RISKS, dangers, and personal motives.

Drain The Swamp.

31 posted on 08/18/2018 9:51:55 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Twotone

bump


32 posted on 08/18/2018 12:18:35 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Twotone

Trump did not know, at the time of his joke, what Brennan claims to have known about Russian influence. So Brennan’s logic is both misleading and deceptive in his pathetic attempt to criminalize-in-hindsight Trump’s joke.


33 posted on 08/18/2018 2:28:44 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: CMSMC
was still offered monthly briefings for as long as he wanted them. I would assume that the “brain trust” then included any 3 and 4 stars that kept an active interest.

that's because the USMJ code applies to retired brass as long as they live. That is, there are punitive regs specifically addressing what retired brass can and can't do or say.

34 posted on 08/18/2018 2:40:31 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Twotone

Leftists LIE as Easily As They Breath

made up shit/falsehoods - people NEED to remember who these liars are so that they can get what they are due for BETRAYING the American People


35 posted on 08/18/2018 4:41:54 PM PDT by elbook
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To: pepsionice
My clearance (Top Secret) was revoked when I retired from the Air Force. I needed it because I was in R and D and world on new weapon systems. Once I was retired I no longer had a "need to know." In retirement, I took a job with a defense contractor. I had to start from scratch to get a Secret clearance. That expired when I retired from that employer.

Seems to me the system worked the way it should. I had clearances when my job required them, and didn't have clearances when I no longer had those jobs.

36 posted on 08/19/2018 5:46:03 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney
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