Revoking the Lying 51's security clearances: Trump was more than justified

Among Donald Trump’s day one executive orders was revoking the security clearances of 51 former “intelligence experts” who signed a letter ginned up by Antony Blinken, claiming The New York Post expose of Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.” Blinken was rewarded with the Secretary of State posting. The executive order clearly explains the rationale for the revocations:

Graphic: NY Post 03-19-22 Cover. Public Domain

Signatories of the letter falsely suggested that the news story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Before being issued, the letter was sent to the CIA Prepublication Classification Review Board, the body typically assigned to formally evaluate the sensitive nature of documents prior to publication. Senior CIA officials were made aware of the contents of the letter, and multiple signatories held clearances at the time and maintained ongoing contractual relationships with the CIA.
Federal policymakers must be able to rely on analysis conducted by the Intelligence Community and be confident that it is accurate, crafted with professionalism, and free from politically motivated engineering to affect political outcomes in the United States. The signatories willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Community to manipulate the political process and undermine our democratic institutions. This fabrication of the imprimatur of the Intelligence Community to suppress information essential to the American people during a Presidential election is an egregious breach of trust reminiscent of a third world country. And now the faith of Americans in all other patriotic intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect the Nation has been imperiled.

The order goes into greater detail and orders an investigation into other potential breaches of national security.

Graphic: Twitter Screenshot

It’s widely known the signatories of that letter knew the FBI had the laptop for many months and had confirmed it belonged to Hunter Biden,

As one-eyed Harry Reid said to horse face when asked about lying that Mittens paid no taxes, “It worked, didn’t it?”

Same deal here.

Trump is on the record saying that the lies accounted for a 16 point swing in the general election.

And he added, “They could never have stolen the election without the lies.”

These fifty are responsible for a coup d’etat.

And they have gotten away with it.

They are TRAITORS and they committed TREASON.

From Grok:
“the revocation of a security clearance for an active federal employee generally requires a reason. The process involves an investigation and adjudication based on criteria outlined in Executive Order 12968, which lists several factors like foreign influence, financial considerations, and criminal conduct. The decision must be based on one or more of these criteria to ensure it’s not arbitrary or capricious.”

Since this appears to be based on a previous EO, he might want to void the EO if he’s going to use this as a tool to enforce discipline among any potentially problematic employees.

“For former federal employees, the legal necessity for providing a reason is less clear-cut. Since they are no longer in active service, they do not have the same employment protections. However, if a former employee maintains a security clearance due to their ongoing involvement in government contracts or other sensitive roles, similar criteria might apply as with active employees.”

Looks like he should revoke all the clearances for former Fed employees especially if they’re nasty (that would be most of them) or they’re going on the talk shows spewing BS.

“A security clearance should ONLY be issued to those people that NEED one as part of their job. and ONLY for info that directly applies to that job

And ONLY until that jobs ends.

It should never be some sort of Life Membership transferrable club.”

Agreed! When I was in military there were those in comm and comm mtce that needed secret or top secret cryptographic clearance. When you left that field and need to know you lost that clearance. Why do these schmucks get to keep a security clearance as a civilian with a life membership?

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