TDS is a state of dementia that will never clear up for some of those infected with the kool aid.
Posted on 08/20/2025 3:11:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s announcement this week that it would rescind the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials was hardly an isolated act.
In ordering the revocation of the clearances, President Donald Trump was turning to a favored retributive tactic that he’s wielded — or at least tried to — against high-profile political figures, lawyers and intelligence officials.
The latest targets include officials who have served in the government across a range of agencies and positions, including on former President Joe Biden’s national security team and at the CIA and National Security Agency.
It’s not entirely clear how the list of 37 officials was developed, though some had worked on issues related to Russian threats to elections in 2016 and 2020, an issue that has long provoked Trump’s ire.
Some were among the national security professionals who had signed onto a 2019 letter that criticized Trump and that was recently highlighted online by influential Trump ally Laura Loomer. Among them was Joel Willet, a military veteran and former CIA officer who spent time in the White House Situation Room under then-President Barack Obama before leaving the government 10 years ago. He said he was not given a reason for why he was targeted but doesn’t think it has anything to do with his long-past government service.
“I think there was a profound sadness and disappointment that this is what our country has become in 2025,” he said in describing how he felt when he got the news.
The practical impact is unclear because it’s not known how many of the people newly singled out by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard still maintain security clearances. But critics are decrying the move as an...
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“””Among them was Joel Willet, a military veteran and former CIA officer who spent time in the White House Situation Room under then-President Barack Obama before leaving the government 10 years ago. He said he was not given a reason for why he was targeted but doesn’t think it has anything to do with his long-past government service.”””””””””
I think I figured out the mystery. You have been gone for TEN YEARS. There, solved.
Wait, what? I thought it was determined that Russia didn't threaten the '16 and '20 elections.
Make up your mind, Ape Pee! Did Hitlery and Brennan and Comey fabricate the Steele Dossier or didn't they?
Ping
Anyone who claims retribution is using a false excuse for their own doings and errant behavior because ...There is a New Standard in town.
They do not measure up and never will.
Cleaning out the The Deep State One by One!
AP crap. Poor them. Boo hoo.
Drain! The! Swamp!
These people are lying to a thinner and thinner audience. Everything that comes out of the hole in their faces is steeped in political cant. Yeah, Trump’s pulling a tactic here.
Do the “news” people ever mention that President Trumps clearance was pulled as soon as he left office?????
AP - America’s Pravda agonizes.
“spent time in the White House Situation Room under then-President Barack Obama”
https://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/saywhat.wav
They keep saying “37 current and former”, but I’d be curious to know the breakdown. I’d bet the vast majority are “former”.
Ass Press again. As soon as I saw “targets” the list of possible sources dwindled to an unprecious few.
if they’ve been taking payments for influence...
charge them, arrest them, and put them in prison.
HE left the job over 10 years ago.
HE DOES Not need a security clearance anymore.
"Tactic" is the latest DNC Partisan Media Shill term. "Escalate" didn't work out.
Lawyer Mark Zaid is one of the people from whom Trump pulled a security clearance.
See :
— Mark Zaid, a prominent Washington national security lawyer whose clients have included an intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint initiated the first of two impeachment cases against Trump.
Zaid subsequently sued, calling it an act of “improper political retribution” that jeopardized his ability to continue representing clients in sensitive national security cases.
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Signing the political letter in 2019 should have caused immediate revocation.
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