Trump revokes security clearance for former CIA director John Brennan

Started by Solar, August 15, 2018, 12:10:28 PM

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Solar

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President Trump has revoked the security clearance for former CIA director John Brennan, the White House announced Wednesday, in the first decision to come from a review of access for several top Obama-era intelligence and law enforcement officials.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders read a statement on behalf of the president during the start of the press briefing, saying Brennan "has a history that calls his credibility into question."

The statement also said that Brennan had been "leveraging" the clearance to make "wild outbursts" and claims against the Trump administration.

"The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that's what he's doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action," Sanders said Wednesday.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/15/trump-revokes-security-clearance-for-former-cia-director-john-brennan.html
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T Hunt

Watched the press briefing today and they are up in arms about this.
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supsalemgr

Makes sense to me. Brennan is a political democrat hack. I am watching Shep Smith as I type this and he has his panties all twisted. Sure, it is punitive. So what. Brennan deserves no respect from Trump. I don't think he will be calling on Brennan for any advice.
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Belenus

I quit paying any attention to ol' Shep.

Sure, FOX needs democrat party shills to continue the 'fair & balanced' narrative, but Shep is just too over-bearing for my afternoon viewing (when I can break away).
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harry12

Quote from: Belenus on August 15, 2018, 01:53:35 PM
I quit paying any attention to ol' Shep.

Sure, FOX needs democrat party shills to continue the 'fair & balanced' narrative, but Shep is just too over-bearing for my afternoon viewing (when I can break away).

Shep wants to be the Stefanopoulos of Fox, nelly free.

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The world is a safer place when this douche bag doesn't have access to classified material.
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WHEN A WRONG IS UNAVENGED THE HEAVENS LOOK DOWN ON US IN SHAME

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Solar

CIA admits to spying on Senate staffers

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff and reversing months of furious and public denials.

Brennan acknowledged that an internal investigation had found agency security personnel transgressed a firewall set up on a CIA network, which allowed Senate committee investigators to review agency documents for their landmark inquiry into CIA torture.

Among other things, it was revealed that agency officials conducted keyword searches and email searches on committee staff while they used the network.

The admission brings Brennan's already rocky tenure at the head of the CIA under renewed question. One senator on the panel said he had lost confidence in the director, although the
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spying-senate-staffers
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Cryptic Bert

They are up in arms and down in legs. Apparently it is authoritarian for a republican president use his right to remove someone's security clearance when they are not using it in any meaningful way. Is this revenge? To a point yeah but without security clearance leakers are not going to leak intel for fear of prosecution and Brennan like most of the ex Obama cronies want to take Trump out.

walkstall

Quote from: The Boo Man... on August 15, 2018, 06:07:40 PM
They are up in arms and down in legs. Apparently it is authoritarian for a republican president use his right to remove someone's security clearance when they are not using it in any meaningful way. Is this revenge? To a point yeah but without security clearance leakers are not going to leak intel for fear of prosecution and Brennan like most of the ex Obama cronies want to take Trump out.

Keeping him on is like someone stealing from you and you keep them on just so you look good.   
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Rotwang

Quote from: Solar on August 15, 2018, 12:10:28 PM
Video at link.

President Trump has revoked the security clearance for former CIA director John Brennan, the White House announced Wednesday, in the first decision to come from a review of access for several top Obama-era intelligence and law enforcement officials.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders read a statement on behalf of the president during the start of the press briefing, saying Brennan "has a history that calls his credibility into question."

The statement also said that Brennan had been "leveraging" the clearance to make "wild outbursts" and claims against the Trump administration.

"The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that's what he's doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action," Sanders said Wednesday.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/15/trump-revokes-security-clearance-for-former-cia-director-john-brennan.html


These Democrat Operatives are TRAITORS and should be arrested, tried, convicted, and hung by the neck until dead.



supsalemgr

Quote from: Belenus on August 15, 2018, 01:53:35 PM
I quit paying any attention to ol' Shep.

Sure, FOX needs democrat party shills to continue the 'fair & balanced' narrative, but Shep is just too over-bearing for my afternoon viewing (when I can break away).

Same here. I usually turn to the Paul Finebaum Show at 3:00PM EDT.
"If you can't run with the big dawgs, stay on the porch!"

Walter Josh

Quote from: Belenus on August 15, 2018, 01:53:35 PM
I quit paying any attention to ol' Shep.

Sure, FOX needs democrat party shills to continue the 'fair & balanced' narrative, but Shep is just too over-bearing for my afternoon viewing (when I can break away).
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Agree about Shep the schlep.
Also FOX has morphed into little more than a platform for peddlers
of junk, as well as assorted brainless yappers w/the brains of a brick.
The network has become crap squared!.

Cryptic Bert

We keep hearing how this was revenge. If so how has Brennan been hurt? He wasn't using the clearance, he's still getting paid to be on TV because he was the head of the CIA. He is still able to say whatever he wants on TV annd in print.

harry12

Quote from: The Boo Man... on August 16, 2018, 06:44:49 PM
We keep hearing how this was revenge. If so how has Brennan been hurt? He wasn't using the clearance, he's still getting paid to be on TV because he was the head of the CIA. He is still able to say whatever he wants on TV annd in print.

No this was not revenge, well maybe a little bit,  however primarily the jackass lost his clearance for his "lack of candor", lying
to Congress under oath.   There's one other thing...Clearances are based on the "need to know",  Brennan no longer has the
"need to know".

walkstall

Quote from: harry12 on August 16, 2018, 08:25:31 PM
No this was not revenge, well maybe a little bit,  however primarily the jackass lost his clearance for his "lack of candor", lying
to Congress under oath.   There's one other thing...Clearances are based on the "need to know",  Brennan no longer has the
"need to know".

His department should have pull "Clearances" when they fired his ass.
Trump should not have had to do it.    Someone needs to be fired for not doing it at the department. 
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."