White House: Trump considering revoking clearances from former CIA, FBI chiefs

[applegrove]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/23/white-house-trump-considering-revoking-clearances-from-former-cia-fbi-chiefs-735968

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President Donald Trump is considering revoking security clearances from ex-officials including former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday.

Sanders said Trump believes the former officials "politicized" their positions by accusing Trump of inappropriate contact with Russia, and she said in some cases they "monetized their clearances," without clarifying what she meant.

"The fact that people with security clearances are making baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence," Sanders said. She also said Trump was eyeing clearances held by former NSA Director Michael Hayden, former national security adviser Susan Rice and former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.

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[applegrove]

1. Because the intel community doesn't need continuity and the advice of former

top intelligence officials.

[superpatriotman]

2. A slow-moving coup d'etat

[Sophia4]

6. Exactly!

We need a massive number of Democratic voters this Fall.

Stop the incessant complaining about anyone who we might possibly persuade to vote Democratic in November. Just stop it. The circular firing squad has too end. It is hurting everyone.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Seems to me like another count of obstruction of justice.

[applegrove]

4. Jake Rapper said it seems like Trump is a president who is against

'baseless accusations'. They showed a video of Michael Flynn calling Hillary crooked.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

5. Im sure they will all just take that lying down.....not.

So who's going to have them bc none of his brood can get the real goods.

[moondust]

7. Do they still have intel jobs?

Aren't they all "former" officials? If they no longer need access to classified intelligence then why would they need a clearance?

[bpj62]

8. Intel Community is a small world

Most of these people are life long intel community experts. They are often brought in to give advice on certain scenarios. If they don't have the clearance they cannot view the Intel.

[Blue_true]

9. It has historically been done as a courtesy and to have their particular insight readily available

if needed. I doubt if they have ever gotten much. Trump is doing this out of pure spite.

[applegrove]

10. The crown Prince, Marco Rubio, can't decide if it is a good or bad thing.

More likely he needs to see which way the wind blows so he can run as a compationate conservative for President some day. Wolf Blitzer holding his feet to the fire. Rubio answers each question by recapping the situation and not taking a side.

I would think it would be a no brainer: former top level intelligence people are an asset to intelligence organizations. It is a small community. Why make it smaller?