Trump revokes John Brennan’s Security Clearance

[Hugo Stiglitz]

“Trump will revoke John Brennan’s security clearance, Sarah Sanders announces, retaliating against a critic of the president”

Manu Raju CNN

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Looking at other critics of Trump to remove their clearances as well.

 

[vi edit]

Petty Petty Princess pouts again.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

John Brennan has no business having a security clearance...especially after he lied to Congress while under oath.

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Trump is now abusing his power to retaliate against critics that speak out publicly. This also sends a chilling message to anyone else with something Trump can take away for speaking open and freely.


Moreover, I wonder why Trump singled out Brennan first?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Meanwhile, Flynn still has his clearances I believe.

 

[fskimospy]

Funny how they went back to the well on this one. What a totally transparent attempt to change the subject from Trump's racism. They saw it worked last time and as soon as they got in trouble again they trotted it back out.

There has never been a stupider, pettier, more corrupt administration than this one. Forget Bush, the Republican Party should never live this down.

 

[BoomerD]

John Brennan has no business having a security clearance...especially after he lied to Congress while under oath.

So like the Trump family?

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/05/25/donald-trump-jr-lied-to-the-senate-judiciary-committee/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...about-Trump-campaign-s-contact-with-Wikileaks

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

This will dominate the news cycle until Omarosa drops her next tape.

 

[zinfamous]

John Brennan for POTUS!

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Trump is now abusing his power to retaliate against critics that speak out publicly. This also sends a chilling message to anyone else with something Trump can take away for speaking open and freely.


Moreover, I wonder why Trump singled out Brennan first?

Brennan is a nut case and lies with impunity. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this guy ends up in jail.

 

[BoomerD]

Brennan is a nut case and lies with impunity. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this guy ends up in jail.

So...like Trump himself?

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Brennan is a nut case and lies with impunity. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this guy ends up in jail.

Can you back this up? He’s worked in the administration of both parties going back to GWB.

 

[vi edit]

This will dominate the news cycle until Omarosa drops her next tape.

Convenient timing on the eve of Manafort conviction, markets shitting themselves and trying to lick your wounds after calling a previous female staffer a "dog" in front of the entire world.

If Trump has any measurable skill, it's kicking a soccer ball for the media to chase.

 

[Jaskalas]

What business do people have keeping a security clearance for a job they no longer work?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

So like the Trump family?

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/05/25/donald-trump-jr-lied-to-the-senate-judiciary-committee/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...about-Trump-campaign-s-contact-with-Wikileaks

Or this guy who lied to the FBI.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1015126/download

 

[MomentsofSanity]

What business do people have keeping a security clearance for a job they no longer work?

They bring a wealth of knowledge of everything they were involved in up to the moment they left. They are an invaluable asset for consulting which is why they have maintained their clearances.

 

[vi edit]

What business do people have keeping a security clearance for a job they no longer work?

It's not uncommon to bring them back into the fold when national threats exist. Many were called back post 9-11 to strategize.

 

[Jaskalas]

It's not uncommon to bring them back into the fold when national threats exist. Many were called back post 9-11 to strategize.

And whoever wants to do that also has the authority to re-instate them, yes?

 

[K1052]

Trying to get away from Omarosa and how racist Trump is generally for a day I see.

Downside is the potential for more damaging leaks in retaliation.

 

[zinfamous]

What business do people have keeping a security clearance for a job they no longer work?

longstnading precedent that has been discussed endlessly in public ever since the White House dotards trotted this out many weeks ago.

Often, these experts are sought as advisers and consultants on important and often time-sensitive issues. They need their security clearance in order to access the information without unnecessary delay. There is nothing strange about this, at all. These are long-standing, trusted, honorable public servants that have worked with multiple administrations in strikingly non-partisan ways.

Only blind Trumptardians have suddenly, without any rational thought, declared this some farcical practice that is finally being fixed by the one, single, strong smart man that could possibly ever fix it. This is only happening because the toddler ape in the White House is unendingly offended with the truth about his diseased character is made public by real men and women with real balls to tell it like it is. (Ironically, the Trumptardians love Trump for "telling it like it is," but run mewling and pouting when the rational adult world actually "Tells them like it is.")

Ignorant, dickless cowards, all of them. And look, they are already crying about it here, just on cue.

 

[vi edit]

And whoever wants to do that also has the authority to re-instate them, yes?

When national security is on the line you may not want to mess with paperwork?

I don't know.

The real news here is that this just yet another spiteful partisan attack by the worst administration in history that is further degrading our norms.

 

[zinfamous]

And whoever wants to do that also has the authority to re-instate them, yes?

Security clearance takes time, necessarily so. The issues they face are extremely time-sensitive. This is precisely why they are allowed to keep their security clearance in perpetuity. It is very simple.

mid-level government stooges with low-level clearance like pc-geek don't understand that. Their "expertise" in security clearance is expressly limited to the infantile peon work that they do. I say this, because he will be trotting in here any moment as the resident "expert" of qualifications for security clearance.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

And unsurprisingly Coats was not consulted before this decision was made. He's only the Director of National Intelligence though. Why does he need to know?

 

[fskimospy]

And whoever wants to do that also has the authority to re-instate them, yes?

It's not at all uncommon for someone to keep a security clearance after leaving a job. I did, for example.

I think there's an important distinction to note as to what exactly a security clearance is. It is not a license to access classified information as you require both a clearance AND a need to know to do that. No job, no need to know. What a security clearance is saying that if the government decides you have a need to know in the future the government has verified you are free from financial/personal conflicts that make you a security risk. There's no reason to strip someone of that check because it's not actually removing their ability to access classified information as that was already gone. It's purely adding to the government's time and expense if they decide someone has a need to know in the future. ie: wasting your tax money.

High level officials aren't like regular people though and there's common precedent for them being consulted by their successors about issues they may have encountered. After all, if you run the CIA and have a question about something that the CIA did a few years back it might be helpful to ask the person who ran it then.

This serves no purpose other than to attempt to intimidate critics and change the news headlines from Trump's racism. The dumbness knows no bounds.