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To: FreeReign
I'm saying that she will have access to the same documents from this point forward without a need to know.

And? This is still her work product, and is thus not the unlimited security clearance imagined by Breitbart or Circa. You are not contradicting me though you seem to be imagining something grander in this language than actually exists in reality.

There is a reason why people with a security clearance lose access to classified documents once they no longer have a "Need to Know".

I am not sure why you have this obsession with the phrase "Need to Know." There is literally no evidence that this is in any way improper. All it means is that she doesn't have to gain specific approval to her own work product when called up by congress. No one is going to be approving that stuff on a case by case basis just because it makes you happy. In either case, she has no access to what's going on in the White House, and only to what she herself already has her name on, whether she created it herself, or assessed, handled, and took responsibility for in some fashion.

There is no grand McMasters conspiracy here. This is just one lie of many told about McMasters, who is no saint mind you, but is not the devil Bannon wanted us to believe.

314 posted on 08/18/2017 1:16:16 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
I'm saying that she will have access to the same documents from this point forward without a need to know.

And?

And?

At the present time, Rice has no need to know. At the present time, Rice should not have access. Giving access to people who don't have a need to know, can only increase the risk of a classified material breach. That's a fundamental principle for handling classified material.

I am not sure why you have this obsession with the phrase "Need to Know."

It's not my obsession buddy.

There is literally no evidence that this is in any way improper.

Nobody gets access to classified material with a need to know. Nobody!

All it means is that she doesn't have to gain specific approval to her own work product when called up by congress.

No, it means she can have access at any point to classified material that she has previously had access to, without a Need to Know.

No one is going to be approving that stuff on a case by case basis just because it makes you happy.

LOL, huh? The person responsible for the classified material briefs you in when you have a Need to Know, and then they brief you out when you no longer have a Need to Know. It has nothing to do with making me happy.

There is no grand McMasters conspiracy here.

One can come to their own conclusion on McMaster. I'm just pointing out the specific item in that memo that is against protocol.

325 posted on 08/18/2017 1:56:00 PM PDT by FreeReign
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