Posted on 08/15/2018 6:33:17 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Comey: Trump revoking Brennan's security clearance shows 'he will punish people who disagree with him'
Former FBI Director James Comey hit back at President Trump for revoking former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance, saying Trump is “sending a message that he will punish people who disagree with him and reward those who praise him.”
Comey said in a statement posted to Twitter on Wednesday evening that in a democracy “security clearances should not be used as pawns in a petty political game to distract voters from even bigger problems.”
The former FBI director also criticized Trump for praising “despots and dictators like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un” and attacking people like “a war hero like [Sen.] John McCain [R-Ariz.], members of our country’s free press, and devoted public servants like John Brennan.”
“American voters must not shrug off or be distracted from the terrible behaviors of his president, who lies to the American people every day, encourages racism, is a misogynist, and always puts his own interests above those of the United State of America,” Comey wrote.
“Politicians enabling this president should be held accountable in future elections,” he continued. “We are each responsible for what we way as well as for our silence.”
The White House announced earlier Wednesday that Trump had revoked Brennan's security clearance.
The president in a statement claimed Brennan, who is a frequent and vocal critic of Trump, was using his former government official status to make “unfounded and outrageous” charges about his administration.
“Mr. Brennan’s lying and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation’s most closely held secrets and facilities, the very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos,” Trump said in a statement read by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Sanders denied that the move was in response to Brennan's criticism; many Trump critics, including Democratic lawmakers, asserted that it was.
Brennan fired back after the decision was announced, saying Trump was trying "to intimidate and suppress any criticism of him or his administration" but adding that the move would not silence him.
Comey has also been highly critical of the president, targeting Trump in a book published earlier this year. Trump fired Comey last year.
Seeing some of these fools doing the Spandau ballet would be a good thing.
Yep and you’re next
I was just thinking that, before I got on the thread.
Do not pass go. Go directly to jail, big bird ...
This is interesting. Takes some time to read.
https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/the-mechanics-of-deception/
You’re next, PUNK!
And Comey’s pickin’ for lickin’, just poking the bear. His clearance will be the next to go kaput.
There ya go. Through perfect solution, and probably perfectly legal.
What is the written law that authorizes past employees to keep security clearances forever? Is it written or simply tradition?
“Hillary did not lose this election. The Media did, and they don’t like it one bit.”
And why isn’t Hillary on this list? And Obama? All of them still are free to be assholes on national TV, and receive their 30 pieces of silver. And they’ll all be getting classified info from Wray, RR, et al., so why the whining?
If you are no longer working in gov’t service, you don’t need a security clearance. So, shut the fu## up, Comey...you’re next.
Hey Comey the homo-ee - it says Trump will punish folks who use their positions and clearances to break the law and screw The People...feel the heat yet?
Comey’s bias is showing again.
....who ought to be punished for working against him!
....who ought to be punished for working against him!
What is the “need to know?” (Besides, what difference does it make, when your friends all leak like a sieve anyway?)
For ordinary people, your security clearance is based on a need to know. In other words, even if you have a very high security clearance with the associated investigations and perhaps even a polygraph test, once you no longer need that clearance for your job, it is suspended. A suspended clearance is quickly reinstated if the government decides that you should have it, but it’s not a right.
By tradition, cabinet officers, senior general officers, and senior intelligence officials have been allowed to keep their clearance as a courtesy with the understanding that they will continue to protect our nations highest secrets. Someone who is openly working to overthrow the President of the United States and nullify an election should not keep a security clearance.
Turn up the punishment. Does everyone know about the DOJ 757 that flew to Hope, Arkansas two to pick up Clinton Foundation documents?
Good. The willingness to punish enemies is a quality I strongly desire in a POTUS.
Right. Hubby was TS his whole career, then another —”Q”, I think. When he retired, ‘bye ‘bye clearance. And he’s a patriot who loves his country.
The thought that commies and traitors like Brennan and Comey should keep their clearances is absurd! How many attempts have they and their cohorts attempted to assassinate Trump?
Punishment of these seditious traitor losers should involve ropes and gallows .
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