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President Trump has revoked the security clearance for former CIA director John Brennan, the White House announced Wednesday, in the first decision to come from a review of access for several top Obama-era intelligence and law enforcement officials.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders read a statement on behalf of the president during the start of the press briefing, saying Brennan “has a history that calls his credibility into question.”
The statement also said that Brennan had been "leveraging" the clearance to make "wild outbursts" and claims against the Trump administration.
“The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that’s what he’s doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action,” Sanders said Wednesday.
This is HIGHLY irregular for a POTUS to make these decisions. It is typically a professional courtesy to allow former heads such as these directors to retain their clearances.
It's a stunt in an effort to capture the news cycle for a day.
originally posted by: toysforadults
OMG TRUMP REVOKED A SECURITY CLEARANCE!!
100,000 babies in heaven died today
ATS is a discussions board
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Krakatoa
I want to say 3 or 4 of those people already had their security clearance revoked when they were fired. So that's a pretty good indicator of the nature of this list.
It's not like the rest of the people receive briefings or walk into SCIFs at will and start poking around. The biggest reason they maintain security clearances is so that they can be consulted at later dates about classified matters by their successors.
It's a stunt in an effort to capture the news cycle for a day.
Oh yeah, Brennan must be a saint right?
He has been linked to leaks of classified information....
If it was one of Trump's family the Dem's would obsess for months, and make up all kinds of fake news about fake news.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
You are an ardent supporter of a habitual liar whose administration responds to any controversy with a 2-3 different lies until the "fake news" backs them so thoroughly into a corner that they have to no choice but concede to reality. How much do you really care about the truth?
Does Mike Flynn still have security clearance? Yes, he does. This is despite illegally lobbying for Turkey while part of the Trump campaign and getting paid through a cut out to conceal it, despite plotting the extralegal extradition of Gulen (for what was it? $8 million?) and despite lying to the FBI.