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Sanders released a list of other that Trump may do the same to. All not surprisingly are critics of him. This is a classic fascist dictator type move to quell all dissent. Hardly a surprise that someone like Trump would act like this. More surprising is the millions of his supporters that have no issue with this. Their ignorance of the dangers of this and outright stupidity seem to have no bounds.
Maybe if you could point out the actual danger for our consideration. I see very little if any danger when what is being taken away isn't being use and never would be. Brennan is untrustworthy with multiple counts of lying. No one is going to take water from a poison well.
Trump revokes former CIA Brennan's security clearance to protect National Security. Brennan failed to act as a professional.
Good move by Trump. Controlling access is an important function of the President.
Brennan has lied and acted unprofessionally after leaving gov. service.
This in no way effects Brennan the citizen's right to say whatever he wants. He has his first amendment fully intact. There is no 1st amendment to blab classified information.
Others are being reviewed and others may be announced in the future.
It appears that some believe that those prior officials with continuing security clearance, like Mr. Brennan, could simply walk into the CIA building and start looking at classified files.
That is not the case. Rather, if the current CIA officials had a question that they believed, for instance, Mr. Brennan could answer, based on his long experience at the CIA, then they can contact him, without resorting to having to obtain new security clearance.
While Mr. Brennan does not have a high opinion of Mr. Trump, I have no doubt that he still has high regard for the CIA, and that he would, if consulted, render an opinion or provide some information, with his feelings for Mr. Trump not entering into it.
One person who was not on the list, interestingly enough, was Michael Flynn.
Not there is someone who SHOULD be denied clearance.
What do we really know about Michael Flynn?
Aside from his long background (including the Obama Administration) for years - he is a General that Obama fired because they didn't like his reports about ISIS.
December 2017 he pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI (a felony) about contacts he had with the Russian government during Trump's presidential transition. The Famous Peter Strzok was the lead FBI (with a partner) who interviewed Flynn when they stopped by to "chat". 302's and Comey Testimony said "nothing there" ...... enter Mueller and suddenly "there".
The Judge that presided over his plea was removed a week later.
A new Judge appointed who demands the Mueller people turn over ALL information they have to the Court.
Delay
Delay
Delay
Every time the Judge calls for Mueller to set a Sentencing date .....
Postponetio
Postpone
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It's a guess that Michale Flynn has no Access to any Classified Government Information - the FBI arrested him, the DOJ made a deal with him to Plead Guilty and he has been in Limbo for over 18 Months.
IF he is actually convicted/sentenced - then he would surely also lose "eligibility" to any Classified Government Information. This is clearly a Leftist Talking Point that was RUSHED out immediately.
Why would any Normal Person think that Michael Flynn has a Secret Clearance that would need to be removed while he is under Federal Indictment?
No Brennan was pressing one wild claim about Trump after another with zero proof
Was he revealing classified information? Information he obtained with his security clearance? Was there any well-founded reason to suspect that he would do so in the future?
Revoking someone’s clearance as a matter of normal policy is fine with me. Trump targeting individuals as political retribution is another matter altogether.
Maybe if you could point out the actual danger for our consideration. I see very little if any danger when what is being taken away isn't being use and never would be. Brennan is untrustworthy with multiple counts of lying. No one is going to take water from a poison well.
So he was trusted as the CIA director but now he is singled out to lose his security clearance while thousands of others retain their’s. This is just trolling the media but at the expense of intelligence, childish behavior by Trump.
He could still communicate regarding classified issues with the intelligence agencies with his clearance, now he cannot. Maybe you missed that, so who does this hurt certainly not Brennan.
If you lose your clearance for lying Trumps would be long gone.
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