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Retired admiral who criticized Trump leaves Pentagon board
Fox News ^ | 09/16/18 | Dom Calicchio

Posted on 09/16/2018 12:29:50 PM PDT by JonnyFive

A retired Navy admiral who oversaw the raid that killed Usama bin Laden has resigned from a Defense Department advisory board, after criticizing President Trump's decision to revoke a former CIA director's security clearance.

William McRaven, former head of U.S. Special Operations Command, left the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) on Aug. 20, Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said.

That was four days after he wrote in the Washington Post that Trump's actions revoking former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance "embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

McRaven's op-ed carried the headline, "Revoke my security clearance, too, Mr. President."

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To: NFHale

The rodeo clown was banned for life for making fun of the Fraud.


61 posted on 09/17/2018 5:00:57 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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That’s the difference in the way the dems fight.. and how “our” side fights... or doesn’t...


62 posted on 09/17/2018 7:19:50 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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