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

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orangedog <ordog@your.service.biz> wrote in
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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 President Trump on Friday night rescinded the security clearances of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-kama
>> la- 
>> harris-hillary-clinton-and-other-prominent-dems/?intcid=CNR-01-0623 
> 
> That's a good days work! 
> 

Meantime all those fired workers contain lots of sensitive information in 
their heads - which adept spies can ferret out.

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