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Re: Trump revokes security clearances of Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and other prominent Dems

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In <vrq1e0$3c9mk$1@dont-email.me> roorumper wrote:
>
> President Trump on Friday night rescinded the security clearances of
> former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary
> Clinton, several members of the Biden administration, and other prominent
> Democrats.
>
> The move comes after Mr. Trump had already announced last month that he
> was revoking former President Joe Biden's security clearance. In a memo
> Friday, the president said he was also rescinding the security clearances
> of the entire Biden family.
>
> Also losing their access to classified information and their security
> clearances were former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former Rep. Adam
> Kinzinger, retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, New York Attorney General
> Letitia James, Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg, former White House
> National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, former Rep. Elizabeth Cheney,
> former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill, former Deputy Attorney
> General Lisa Monaco, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman
> Eisen, and attorney Mark Zaid, who was a lawyer for the whistleblower who
> reported concerns about the Mr. Trump's dealings with Ukraine in his first
> White House term.
>
> Several of those named, including James and Bragg, had already had their
> clearances revoked earlier this month by Director of National Intelligence
> Tulsi Gabbard as part of a purge of dozens of clearances for current and
> former officials.
>
> Friday's memo applies to "receipt of classified briefings, such as the
> President's Daily Brief, and access to classified information held by any
> member of the Intelligence Community by virtue of the named individuals'
> previous tenure in the Congress."
>
> Since taking office in January, the president has revoked the clearances
> of multiple former officials who he claims "weaponized" either the
> intelligence community or the law against him.
>
> Cheney and Kinzinger helped lead the House select committee investigation
> into the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Bragg brought the New York "hush
> money" criminal case which resulted in a felony conviction for Mr. Trump
> on 34 state counts of falsification of business records.
>
> James sued Mr. Trump and the Trump organization, accusing them of
> widespread fraud. The lengthy trial resulted in a judge's $453 million
> verdict against Mr. Trump and his former company.
>
> Those who had previously had their clearances revoked include retired Gen.
> Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the
> Trump and Biden administrations and had a public falling out in the final
> months of Mr. Trump's first term over the photo op in front of St. John's
> Church in June 2020 after federal officers cleared out social justice
> protesters from Lafayette Park so Mr. Trump could walk to the church from
> the White House.
>
> Mr. Trump was also critical of Milley's revelation that he had engaged in
> two phone calls — one on Oct. 30, 2020, and the second on Jan. 8, 2021,
> two days after the Capitol insurrection — with Chinese General Li Zuocheng
> of the People's Liberation Army in order to assure him that the U.S. would
> not launch an attack against China and that the U.S. was stable.
>
> On the day of his inauguration, Mr. Trump revoked the clearances of dozens
> of former intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming that
> emails found on a laptop owned by Biden's son, Hunter, bore the hallmarks
> of a Russian disinformation campaign.
>
> John Bolton, who served as national security adviser during Mr. Trump's
> first term, also had his clearance pulled over a book he penned about his
> time in the role.
>
> The president accused Bolton of publishing sensitive information and said
> the book's publication "created a grave risk that classified material was
> publicly exposed."
>
> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-revokes-security-clearances-of-kamala-
> harris-hillary-clinton-and-other-prominent-dems/?intcid=CNR-01-0623

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