Posted on 08/15/2018 3:11:38 PM PDT by jazusamo
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced from the daily briefing Wednesday afternoon President Trump has revoked the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan and is considering doing the same for other politically motivated, former officials.
"I have also begun to review the more general question of the access to classified information by former government officials," Sanders said on behalf of President Trump. "As part of this review, I am evaluating action with respect to the following individuals: James Clapper, James Comey, Michael Hayden, Sally Yates, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr. Security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked, and those who have already their lost their security clearance may not be able to have it reinstated."
Former DNI director James Clapper, who regularly criticizes President Trump as a contributor for CNN, is responding to the revocation of Brennan's clearance and argues the move is an infringement on free speech.
“Will the republic stand or fall on whether John retains his access to classified information, or mine or any others that were named? Of course not. The larger issue here, to me, has been infringement on First Amendment rights," Clapper said during an interview with the network. "I think people ought to think seriously about that. Infringement of our right to speak, and apparently, the appropriateness of being critical of this president.”
You can read President Trump's entire statement about revoking security clearances below.
Statement+from+the+President-2 by Katie Pavlich on Scribd
True that, send him some cheese, he has the Whine covered
I don’t know...Legally, I would think he couldn’t be using it for anything but I wouldn’t put anything past Brennan or Clapper.
It’s not a swamp. It’s a SEWER!
Indeed
The country is more important than James Clapper. He was just a hired employee.
[Brennan, et. al.]
Damn, there goes my revenue stream.
Can’t be leaked to anymore without committing a crime.
...and there goes my book deal. No insider angle.
This sucks.
Yep, just talking to my son who knows about security clearances and he brought up the fact that they don’t want to lose them in case they snag a contractors job that requires them.
If the clearance has been revoked they won’t be hired because they’d have to go through the whole process rather than a renewal and the chances of getting it after it being revoked is practically nothing.
You can’t act like a lunatic ad keep your clearance.
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No-Brainer ,,, they have no “need to know” , therefore no need for a clearance... and anyone providing them classified information should be fired and arrested.
One can only hope! lol
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