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Here’s Why Trump Revoked Former CIA Boss Brennan’s Security Clearance
IWB ^ | Chris Black

Posted on 08/15/2018 3:57:00 PM PDT by davikkm

President Trump revoked on Wednesday former CIA Boss Brennan’s security clearance. Finally. Better late than never, right?

Fox News ✔ @FoxNews .@POTUS revokes security clearance for former CIA director John Brennan https://fxn.ws/2wakfkv

3:01 PM - Aug 15, 2018 2,338 1,026 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy

This quintessential swamp creature Brennan is a die-hard Obama-lover apparatchik, and he is famous for lying to Senate during his testimony on CIA spying on Congress back in 2014. He also lied to Congress in 2017, while under oath, mind you, as he claimed the so-called “intelligence” community did not use the Steele dossier in order to obtain FISA warrants, for spying on Donald Trump’s campaign officials in 2016.

Brennan is also known for his temper tantrums on Twitter:

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KEYWORDS: blogtrash; brennan; liar; steeledossier; thecommunist
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1 posted on 08/15/2018 3:57:00 PM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

He lied to congress under oath. So, why isn’t he being prosecuted or in prison by now?


2 posted on 08/15/2018 4:03:04 PM PDT by adorno
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To: davikkm
Brennan on twitter today.

This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent.

What a pompous corrupt twit. The ruling elites and their minions really think all American's are idiots.

3 posted on 08/15/2018 4:04:17 PM PDT by lizma2
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Because he’s a liar and a nut-job.

During his application to the CIA he also admitted in a lie-detector test that he had voted for the U.S. Communist Party candidate for president, Gus Hall, in 1976.


4 posted on 08/15/2018 4:08:31 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: davikkm

The RNC Swamp critters would have even more openly rebelled had Trump moved against their DNC loyalist fellow swampers with the speed they were due.

We really need to expunge the sorts of people who helped sustain the religion of peace BS from out intelligence and security community, who did their worst to bury efforts such as those by Stephen Coughlin to have a real world, rather than taqiyya world, appraisal of terrorism ... something they did well before Obama took office.


5 posted on 08/15/2018 4:08:34 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: davikkm

People do not retain security clearances after they leave the job, even if they are not fired. They no longer need to know. It has always been this way.

So the question is: is the author of this tripe truly stupid, or is he a new world order toady attempting to promote the notion that clearance revocation requires some sort of justification?

There isn’t a third possibility. Those are the only two.


6 posted on 08/15/2018 4:10:01 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: smokingfrog

Communist and socialist are insults and slurs way worse than the standard fare that the Left freely uses these days.


7 posted on 08/15/2018 4:10:59 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: davikkm

Simple - once you leave the job, you no longer have a “need to know” so the clearance goes away. EZ - PZ


8 posted on 08/15/2018 4:11:18 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: davikkm

revoked on Wednesday former CIA Boss Brennan’s security clearance.
= = =

former - -

So why would he need a current security clearance now?

(Other than spying and leaking?)


9 posted on 08/15/2018 4:11:19 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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sufficient reason.... would have been to revoke it because the man is no longer employed in a position requiring access to sensitive or secret govt information

it should have been revoked when the man left govt service

the question is, why wasn’t it?


10 posted on 08/15/2018 4:14:11 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( "Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: davikkm

And ‘cause Brennan is a traitorous Comsymp!!!


11 posted on 08/15/2018 4:19:33 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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Brennan is a die-hard Obama-lover apparatchik,

I take offense at that, on behalf of my fellow apparatchiki.
12 posted on 08/15/2018 4:20:11 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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Maybe Trump is signaling who is going to be indicted.


13 posted on 08/15/2018 4:23:07 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: adorno

Because the ruling class and their minions have an unspoken agreement not to turn state’s evidence against each other.


14 posted on 08/15/2018 4:26:59 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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To: MrEdd
"They no longer need to know."

But, they can still be informed legally via back door contacts. The revocation makes such information sharing illegal. Brennan is a Wahabis Muslim convert as well as a communist sympathizer. Is this someone who can be trusted?

15 posted on 08/15/2018 4:34:12 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: davikkm

The media is really angry Trump took away Brennan’s ability to leak to them.


16 posted on 08/15/2018 4:35:02 PM PDT by struggle
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To: smokingfrog

This is the Gus Hall who, as leader of the Communist Party USA wrote a book where he openly admitted that there would be a substantial portion of U.S. citizens who would have to be executed once the communists took over the country.

I read about that statement about his book in a source that stated that because of that open admission, the Communist Party had been trying to hide Hall’s book and would destroy copies and eliminate them from libraries. At the time, I was skeptical about this assertion and wondered whether the author was exaggerating.

I noticed that Hall’s book was in the card catalog of the Glendale, CA public library, but it wasn’t on the shelf. [This was in the late 1960’s.] When I requested it, the librarian produced a copy from a special behind the counter stack. I asked why Hall’s book was treated in this special way. She replied that books were kept “behind the counter” when it was determined that versions in the open stacks would be stolen or damaged. By keeping a copy behind the counter, the librarians would know who was handling it.

That experiment cured my skepticism! :)


17 posted on 08/15/2018 4:35:14 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: davikkm
Well, the Left's spin was revealed almost immediately when Clapper (and Brennen) came out and claiming their free speech rights have been abridged.

Of course, this is bull-pucky. There they both are complaining about their free speech rights being restricted, whilst at the same time they are exercising their free speech rights. Do they think Americans are dumb and don't see that?

Besides, Brennen and Clapper, have jobs as talking heads for CNN, the leader in anti-Trump, fake news on cable TV. Their freedom of speech will be just fine.

And notice that there is no mention that none of these people, including Brennan, have jobs with the federal government anymore. They shouldn't continue to have clearances if they are no longer working in government positions that require it.

It should be standard procedure to revoke these security clearances and not have to defend pulling them to the media.

18 posted on 08/15/2018 4:36:14 PM PDT by HotHunt
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The Real Reasom?

To Show EVERYONE HE CAN!

Heads Up, Media Talking Heads!

President Trump CAN Revoke the Security Clearances of Y’all’s Favorite Spies/Useful Idiots/#NeverTrumpers‼️
19 posted on 08/15/2018 4:48:20 PM PDT by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WIINNING WAYT)
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To: lizma2

A security clearance has noting to do with free speech.


20 posted on 08/15/2018 4:54:36 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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