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12 ex-intel officials slam Trump for 'ill-considered and unprecedented' action against Brennan
Fox News ^ | 08/17/18 | Lukas Mikelionis

Posted on 08/17/2018 8:08:52 PM PDT by kevao

Twelve former senior intelligence officials issued a statement late Thursday criticizing President Trump’s “ill-considered and unprecedented” decision to strip former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 12angrymen; avrilhaines; davidcohen; davidpetraeus; georgetenet; jamesclapper; johnbrennan; johnmclaughlin; leonpanetta; michaelhayden; michaelmorell; portergoss; robertgates; stephenkappes; susanrice; williamwebster
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To: Sequoyah101
Why does anyone retain a security clearance after it is needed?

$$$$$$$$$$$$

61 posted on 08/17/2018 9:45:11 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao
Zero fired over 200 military brass. He cancelled their SCs. And replaced them with liberals. I didn't hear the MSM or ex-intel heads howling over how unfair and ‘ill-considered’ that was.

What is ill-considered and unprecedented is a pensioned official who, not content to follow the norm of most spooks - that is, relishing retirement, writing a book or two, giving the occasional interview from his garden, or West Point lecture, is more motivated to mount the public platform as a paid talking head. While waving his rather tarnished credentials card to demand access to ‘inside information’ he can further twist, as he did before Congress on more than one occasion, to cloak, excuse and obscure his own deceitful role in what has become a rather sordid affair.

What is ill-considered and unfortunate is that 12-ex intel officials can't spot the signs of subversive behavior over the last 4 years that jeopardized the entire electoral process of America. That they, too, are exes, is somehow reassuring to the American people.

62 posted on 08/17/2018 9:45:26 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Maris Crane
WHO THE HECK ARE THEY?

Not all named in the Fox News article I posted. Sorry.

But The Hill is naming them as:

former CIA Directors David Petraeus, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet, Robert Gates and William Webster; former CIA Deputy Directors David Cohen, Avril Haines, Michael Morell, Stephen Kappes and John McLaughlin; and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

63 posted on 08/17/2018 9:50:13 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao

OMG, most of them are LOSERS.

Just a couple I can’t identify, but the only surprise is Porter Goss.

I remember he was made head of either FBI or CIA and the stupid wuss couldn’t handle it. Up until that, I thought he was pretty cool. I was wrong.


64 posted on 08/17/2018 9:57:48 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Each and every one of them should get a trap-door.


65 posted on 08/17/2018 10:01:17 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline is here. you just can't see it.)
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To: kevao

We’re gonna need more cherry trees...


66 posted on 08/17/2018 10:02:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: kevao

We’re gonna need more cherry trees...


67 posted on 08/17/2018 10:02:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: blueplum
Zero fired over 200 military brass. He cancelled their SCs. And replaced them with liberals. I didn't hear the MSM or ex-intel heads howling over how unfair and ‘ill-considered’ that was.

Upon taking office, Bill Clinton fired all US attorneys, who serve at the pleasure of the president, and replaced them with his people. Not a peep from the press, and rightly so, it was all constitutional.

GWB did not follow suit upon taking office in 2001. And, yes, that was very stupid! But he was, after all, of the stupid party.

In 2006, he did fire some, but only 7 of the 93. And it became a HUGE scandal drummed up by the press.

So double standards are nothing new.

What is new is that GWB had only the Democrat Party and MSM working against him.

President Trump has that *plus* most of the stupid party establishment (GOPe) actively undermining him.

And so far, he's doing pretty damned well!

68 posted on 08/17/2018 10:05:41 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao

What value does your statement have when you’re a member of the deep state?

While being blackmailed by other members of the deep state?


69 posted on 08/17/2018 10:06:06 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

It just occurred to me that it wouldn’t surprise me that if these 12 morons have no idea what has happened regarding the whole Russia/collusion thing BECAUSE THE MEDIA DIDN’T COVER IT!!!!!!


70 posted on 08/17/2018 10:08:41 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: reasonisfaith

These guys aren’t blackmailing each other to sign on to this ridiculous condemnation. They are all totally on board. Because they have all been making lots of money with the security clearances and the access it gives them.

President Trump is upsetting the apple cart, and the greedy bastards are freaking.


71 posted on 08/17/2018 10:12:26 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao

“Twelve more security clearances that should be stripped....”

That would constitute what normal folk would call a good start.

L


72 posted on 08/17/2018 10:14:27 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: kevao

There’s waaaaay more than just twelve.


73 posted on 08/17/2018 10:16:46 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline is here. you just can't see it.)
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To: Bullish

Sure, but you have to start somewhere. And twelve is a nice, even number.


74 posted on 08/17/2018 10:21:59 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao

Okay but with blackmailing as their wherewithal, their means, their bread and butter, their game, their art, their craft, their sustenance, their substance, their nine-to-five, their trade, their thing and their circumstances—it’s really hard knowing who is still blackmailing whom.


75 posted on 08/17/2018 10:24:32 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: DoughtyOne

What is particularly satisfying is that you can tell they think they’re smart and superior because their fellow Deep State drones have always told them they are smart and superior.

They are having to face real life outside their beltway cocoon for the first time, and coming to the creeping realization they were actually stupid all the time.


76 posted on 08/17/2018 10:26:44 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: TADSLOS

Won’t work....
I hold a secret clearance. Government
contractors may work in private sector
jobs, then gain access to another
government position where a clearance
is required. Background checks can take
up to a year to complete. So, to reapply
would stop any sensitive “need to know”
work from being accomplished, while
waiting to be approved, again.


77 posted on 08/17/2018 10:27:14 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: kevao

This is another indication of how deep the “Deep State” is. How far reaching is the corruption in Washington?


78 posted on 08/17/2018 10:32:40 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: reasonisfaith

They’re not blackmailing anybody. They’re just shearing. Shearing us, the sheep.

And the new shepherd in town, PDJT, is saying, No, you’re not shearing the sheep any more.

And they’re spinning a yarn, saying that it’s all about freedom of speech, that they’re not fleecing anyone. But there’s not a strand of truth in any of it.


79 posted on 08/17/2018 10:42:39 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevao

Sure, but each of them is motivated to stay exactly where they are and walk the line for both positive as well as negative consequences.

The negative consequences are death and blackmail.


80 posted on 08/17/2018 10:45:51 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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