http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3680162/posts
Thread about former intel types including C_A directors who condemned Trump’s yanking of Brennan’s security clearance.
Interesting to me that Petraeus is on the list. I was never quite sure if he was a black hat or a white hat. When he got sacked by 0vomit, it seemed it was for cause, yet I questioned everything 0vomit did, which made me thing DP might be a good guy.
That’s kind of funny since Petraeus and Hillary are the poster children for high level government officials who are undeserving of high security clearances. They used to use them as case studies in the Army War College until Hillary’s campaign found out and stopped it.
8/18/2018, 9:18:50 AM · by E. Pluribus Unum · 11 replies PJ Media ^ | AUGUST 17, 2018 | DEBRA HEINE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3680212/posts
Security clearances are not personal "perks".
A security clearance is basically a set of restrictions placed upon an individual for the convenience of the government. (It allows application of labor and brainpower to tasks that must be kept secure.)
The entire burden of maintaining that security is placed upon the cleared individual -- and responsibility for maintaining that security often burdens the individual far, far beyond the termination of the clearance.
In a properly-functioning security system, security clearances should be (and typically are) terminated when a valid "need to know" (for the convenience of the government) no longer exists. This typically coincides (as did mine) with termination of employment in the cleared job.
Should government need arise, clearances can be reinstated -- if classified knowledge imparted to the individual has been rigorously protected in the mean time.
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IMHO, all government employees' clearances should end with their employment -- and their "exit debriefing" should -- in no uncertain terms -- spell out the legal penalties for breaching the security of their acquired knowledge. And -- in the case of HRC -- those penalties should be applied -- unmercifully!
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Brennan didn't "lose" his security clearance. As a civilian non-employee, he should not have had one!
POTUS: Where's the "blanket" executive order voiding ALL expired clearances?