NY Post: Former Intelligence Officials Bagging Big Bucks Off Their Security Clearances

Breitbart ^ | 23 Aug 2018

[detective]

Former U.S. intelligence officials like John Brennan garner lucrative employment in the private sector based on their ability to maintain their government security clearances. Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner from the Government Accountability Institute explain this in an op-ed in the New York Post, detailing the revelations in Bruner’s new book, Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption.

Schweizer and Bruner write:

Former CIA Director John Brennan’s temper tantrum over the revocation of his security clearance has inadvertently pointed a spotlight at one of the Swamp’s favorite get-rich-quick tricks: the national intelligence contractor hustle.

On Aug. 20, President Trump escalated his attack on Brennan. “Everybody wants to keep their Security Clearance, it’s worth great prestige and big dollars, even board seats, and that is why certain people are coming forward to protect Brennan,” Trump said.

[detective]

The president’s point is valid: Maintaining access to top-secret or classified information is how former intelligence officials like Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey and others command millions of dollars from the private sector. A security clearance reportedly yields a salary of up to 15 percent higher compared to the salaries of individuals without clearances for the same position.

[TBP]

https://nypost.com/2018/08/22/ex-officials-actually-use-security-clearances-to-get-rich/

[1Old Pro]

Trump. right.again.

Just like when he said murderers and rapists come over the border illegally from Mexico and the media and Dems had a meltdown....fast forward to just another Iowa girl getting murdered by an illegal Mexican.

[BeadCounter]

I read an article like this about a week ago, I thought it said that just having the clearance meant compensation but maybe it’s this that they can earn more in the private sector. Could be both. I don’t know but they definitely benefit from it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Does Bradley Manning still have his?

[Bell Bouy II]

As so many here have said, when your employment ends with ANYONE,all access to anything other than earnded benefits ends too.

Let’em reapply if they feel they are so indispensable and give the reason.
A CNN/MSNBC paid talking head aint one.

[poinq]

https://www.clearancejobs.com/?

[Reily]

He never should have gotten one!
When I started being genderbender was disqualifying !
I remember when that all changed & what senior official changed it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

It is to my shame that he and I share an MOS.

[centurion316]

I think that Mr. Trump’s point is valid, John Brennan’s market value is enhanced by the fact that he still held a clearance. But, using the numbers is arguing apples and oranges. In the Defense Industry, a particular job’s salary is affected by the clearance requirement, the higher or more unusual the set of clearance requirements, the higher the salary for the same set of other job requirements. It’s a function of supply and demand and also a function of the time required to get a high level clearance for someone who does not already hold it. When the government awards a contract, they want key persons on the job immediately and especially those who require a high clearance.

Brennan and the like are in a completely different category. They are hired because what they know and who they know and their access to decision makers. The lack of a clearance might be a hindrance, but more likely their reputation or in what circles they belong are more important.

[shanover]

Truly disgusting and insane. America’s secrets go right to her enemies. I do weep for our country.

[map]

Does Bradley Manning still have his?

I believe he was a donor.

[Liz]

They had info to sell----The Clinton Foundation collected foreign money by the carload:

FOREIGN DONORS--ARMS DEALS

Donors to The Clinton Foundation) got lucrative Hillary/Obama State Dept arms deals.Obama got his cut.

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Other glaring examples----the Clintons using inside information while she was Secy State Dept to get-rich-quick.

The take just from foreign entities.

LEGEND-—Donation to Clinton Foundation/Global Initiative (CGI)-—followed by State Dept favor granted in return.

<><> Prince of Abu Dhabi and Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan and the Al Nahayan family of Abu Dhabi. <$5,000,000 Access to HRC at State Dept. and a $500,000 environmental speech by Bill Clinton given at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi while HRC was meeting in Washington with Shaikh Abdullah.

<><> Algeria <$500,000 State Dept clearance for U.S. arms sales to Algeria. Deal included biological and chemical agents.

<><>Australia, Commonwealth of <$75,000,000 Strong State Dept. for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which stands to be a boon for Australian multinational firms.

<><>Bahrain, Kingdom of <$250,000 Muted criticism by State of Bahrain’s abysmal human rights practices.

<><>Boeing Corp.<$900,000 State Dept. clearance for $29 billion arms U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia, including Boeing’s F-15 fighter.

<><>Brunei Darussalam, Sultanate of < $5,000,000 State Dept. clearance for U.S. weapons sales to Brunei.

<><>Cameroon, Republic of <$100,000 Influence buying by the Cameroon government with the Clinton State Department.

<><>Canada $500,000 donation for State Dept support for Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline, eventually vetoed by Barack Obama.

<><> Chagoury Group <$5,000,000 in cash and a $1,000,000,000 pledge HRC delayed designating Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization because of Chagoury Group’s investments and operations in Nigeria. Chagoury Group received the “Sustainable Development Award” from the CGI. Chagoury helped the family of Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha hide his wealth stolen from Nigeria’s oil revenues.

<><> Confederation of Indian Industry <$1,000,000 Access for Indian businesses to U.S. government officials.

[Liz]

From 2001-2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Guess who took over this investigation in 2002? None other than Comey. Comey was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 to December 2003. A Grand Jury had been empanelled. Governments from around the world had donated to the “Clinton Charity”. Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared.

nypost.com

Then-State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman gave the Clinton Foundation a pass on identifying foreign donors in its charitable filings — making it impossible to know if it got any special favors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, according to a Scripps News report.

Scripps News found that the foundation and its subsidiary, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, took in $225 million in government donations between 2010 and 2014. New York’s charity law clearly states: “Organizations that received a contribution or grant from a government agency during the reporting period shall include the name of each agency from which contributions were received and the amount of each contribution.”

But both the foundation and the CHAI failed to do that, and Schneiderman, a member of Clinton’s “leadership council” in New York and a fierce critic of Donald Trump, did nothing about it. Schneiderman's NYAG's office filed about 100 lawsuits against Trump, the man he begged campaign donations from.

Other charities complied, including the George W. Bush foundation, which reported receiving $5 million from Saudi Arabia and $500,000 from Kuwait.

On its website, the Clinton Foundation reveals its foreign donors, but using only broad ranges, such as $5 million to $10 million, without any time frames. The IRS doesn’t require such disclosures.

SOURCE https://nypost.com/2016/09/06/schneiderman-let-clinton-foundation-skip-identifying-foreign-donors/https://nypost.com/2016/09/06/schneiderman-let-clinton-foundation-skip-identifying-foreign-donors/

Hillary and smirking Hillary worshipper, Eric Schneiderman (right).

Schneiderman was recently ousted from office after women came forward saying he spat at, slapped, and choked women he was intimate with.

[super7man]

What ever happened to “a need to know”?

I had a security clearance when I worked in aero-space but it did not allow me to have access unless there was a need to know.

[Liz]

Another reason to thank God Hillary lost. Here's one of her USSC picks (right).

Hillary and smirking Hillary worshipper, Eric Schneiderman (right). As NYAG, he allowed the Clintons to
falsify official Foundation reports. Schneiderman was ousted from office b/c he spat at, slapped, and choked
women he was intimate with.

[Fraxinus]

Brennan and the like are in a completely different category. They are hired because what they know and who they know and their access to decision makers. The lack of a clearance might be a hindrance, but more likely their reputation or in what circles they belong are more important.

I suspect that much of the sturm and drang about Brennan's security clearance is that it hurts his standing in his social circles,i.e. a high level clearance indicates that you are part of the club. It also reduces his access to important information, as it gives anyone having second thoughts about leaking to Brennan an obvious excuse to stop, and makes prosecuting anyone still keeping him in the loop much easier.

[centurion316]

One of the things that I learned in my limited exposure to people at John Brennan’s level is that most of them regularly ignored security precautions. The politicians were the worst, followed by the professional staffers outside of the intel community, but the intel community played pretty loose with classified information.

[trebb]

Brennan: “No, we’re not making big buck by abusing our clearances, but it will cause me great financial harm now that my clearance has been removed...”