Love this timely REMINDER....
Posted on 07/25/2018 5:06:14 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
President Donald Trump has started “the mechanism” for pulling security clearances from “certain individuals,” a White House aide revealed Tuesday. White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told reporters aboard Air Force One traveling to Joint Base Andrews in Camp Springs, Maryland, that the administration has begun taking the necessary steps to revoke access to classified information from former top intelligence officials but declined to get into specifics.
“What I can say is that the president finds it extremely inappropriate for somebody to go on television under the perception of legitimacy, integrity and level false and baseless claims against another person without any evidence whatsoever,” Gidley told the press gaggle. “He finds that to be somewhat troublesome and concerning, and so he has begun the mechanism to remove security clearances from certain individuals. The names were listed yesterday. And when we have a further announcement on that, we’ll give it to you.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Monday that President Trump is “exploring the mechanisms” to remove the security clearance of Obama-era intelligence officials, including ex-CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey. “The president contends to the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence,” Sanders told White House press reporters.
One reporter pressed Hogan for additional information: “Speaker [Paul] Ryan said he thought the president was just trolling in regards to the clearance issue. Is this serious?”
“No. I mean, the president thinks it is extremely inappropriate for people to go out on television and level those claims with no evidence — to tease an audience with information that they claim to have but offer no backup. That’s problematic..."
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BOOM...
As in, “Lower the BOOM on their heads”...
Thanks! I try!
Love this timely REMINDER....
You know that Sandy Berger had died, right?
Hahahahahahahahaha!
The perception among the voters may be that they DO have access and therefore what they claim has some merit...when in reality there is no merit.
I must admit if I knew he had died, I had forgotten it.
Sad. To think that what you will be best known to posterity for is sticking classified documents down your pants.
Well, he is gone now. Cancer in 2015.
The clearances don’t matter. Access is given on a “need to know” basis. Providing classified information to an unauthorized person without a “need to know” is crime even if the person has the proper clearances.
This is a crime.
Not necessarily. If the person (e.g. Clapper) has unlimited access than the protégé can probably do it legally.
Which is why I advocate narrowing the clearance's “need to know” and only allow them access to specified administration personnel. If a deep state protégé violated these restrictions it would then be a crime.
“What a day. A deal with the EU, Rosenstein, and revoking those slime bucket’s credentials. Sleep well DJT.”
Yeah, those and squashing CNN’s scumbag Kaitlan Collins like a bug, and today is one of those days of winning like no other ...
I pray to God it was from bleeding out from paper cuts to his “unit”
He’s dead, Jim...
Arrest, try and hang Brennan, Comey and Hillary.
And McCabe.
Re: “I can’t imagine any of them being briefed”
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Maybe their comrades (who still work with classified information in the government) are feeding it to them?
NO ONE that isn’t doing Govt. work should keep their clearances after they leave!! NO ONE!
Clapper has to have a "need to know". Working for CNN is not a "need to know". Have you ever has a security clearance? I have. TS/SBI.
That could very well be, but like you alluded to, not in an official capacity. Either way, it would be illegal.
You have to start somewhere. Even if it’s a fruitless battle.
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