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Home Front: Politix
Ex-intel leaders admonish Pres. Trump in joint letter
2018-08-17
[Washington Examiner] Twelve former senior intelligence officials have issued a joint statement admonishing President Trump for yanking former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance, calling it "ill-considered and unprecedented."

The ex-officials say "the president's action regarding John Brennan and the threats of similar action against other former officials has nothing to do with who should and should not hold security clearances ‐ and everything to do with an attempt to stifle free speech."

The signees include six former CIA directors, five former deputy directors and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Two of the signees ‐ Clapper and former CIA Director Michael Hayden ‐ have appeared on a White House list of people who may also have their security clearances revoked.
Afraid they're next
Posted by:Besoeker

#18  Would hanging them all be an option. We used to do that to traitors.
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-08-17 20:35  

#17  It seems like being an asshole ought to be a sufficient reason for yanking a security clearance of former swamp-dwellers.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-08-17 19:19  

#16  The Swamp is a Superfund site in more ways than one, 49 Pan.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2018-08-17 19:09  

#15  The swamp is deep over at soggy bottom.....
Posted by: 49 Pan   2018-08-17 17:06  

#14  They fear for their rice bowls. Nothing more. Pull them all. More. Implement Glenn Reynolds revolving door policy.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2018-08-17 16:25  

#13  Pres. Trump is upending the Klingon business model and revealing their modus operandi (endless wars, regime change, and political chicanery). They are most unhappy.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-17 15:47  

#12  I wish Trump would make a very public example of these ex-intel, but still idiotic, protestors. Maybe this would encourage the others.
They have clearly signaled their allegiance, and it is not to the USA.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-08-17 13:56  

#11  They are...
utterly worthless. Fire them too.
Posted by: newc   2018-08-17 13:17  

#10  If they were the same idiots that were running things during Bosnia, Crimean, Haiti, Georgia or Ukraine, they need to have theirs pulled as well and have their pension seized as collateral for their gross incompetence.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-08-17 12:49  

#9  some people have a hard time keeping their mouth shut, :)
Posted by: 746   2018-08-17 12:04  

#8  Skid - I cannot believe these tongue wagging SOB's have been on a box lately.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-17 10:03  

#7  Brennan can run his suck hole all he wants, its his right. But since he cant keep his mouth shut, he violates his security clearance. Pretty simple in my book...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2018-08-17 10:00  

#6  Oh wait, you've not been poly'd in decades?


Harumph.
What happened to the 1 scheduled and 1 random poly and fluids annuals?
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-08-17 09:58  

#5  Pull access from all of them.

Hear, hear.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-08-17 09:27  

#4  I've not seen the complete list, but it would appear the signatories of the memo are all former members of the same agency ?

Perhaps this speaks to the greater problem.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-17 08:51  

#3  Pull access from all of them.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-08-17 07:37  

#2  If it's a free speech issue, then shouldn't every American citizen in good standing also have the same level security clearance? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-08-17 07:23  

#1  ....stifle free speech.

No, they'll still have 'free speech' and the ability to say whatever they want. They just won't have access to classified information. Chatter away you bastids !

Holding a security clearance is a privilege and vehicle of special trust granted by the US Gov't, not a right.

Just think, you won't have to sit through those dreadful full-scope polygraphs. Oh wait, you've not been poly'd in decades ?


Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-17 07:17  

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