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

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On 24 Mar 2025, Baxter <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> posted some
news:vrrre5$148il$2@dont-email.me: 

> orangedog <ordog@your.service.biz> wrote in
> news:20250324.042835.46efdb38@msgid.frell.theremailer.net: 
> 
>> 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 President Trump on Friday night rescinded the security clearances of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-kam
>>> a 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.

If so, they never should have been in the positions in the first place.

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