5 times Sanders deflected on Trump revoking security clearances
Trump revoking former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance sparked questions for White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Aug. 15.
Top row from left are former CIA Director Michael Hayden, former FBI Director James Comey, former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe and former national security adviser Susan Rice. Bottom row from left are former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former National Intelligence Director James Clapper.
Klamath Falls, OR— This is what dictators do in authoritarian regimes.
How Trumpian for Trump to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan and Trump has 9 more critics in his sights to do the same against his enemy's.
Sanders named nine more individuals whose clearances are also under review: James Clapper, former director of national intelligence; former FBI Director James B. Comey; Bush national security adviser Michael Hayden; former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; President Barack Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice; current Justice Department official Bruce Ohr; former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe; former FBI agent Peter Strzok; and former FBI attorney Lisa Page. Comey, Yates, McCabe, and Strzok all were fired by Trump.
Only Ohr remains in the government. Former national security officials often retain clearances to enable them to continue advising the White House and Congress, or to maintain helpful ties to foreign officials.
Appearing on MSNBC after Trump's action, Brennan said: "I've seen this type of behavior and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and despots and autocrats in my national security career. I never thought I would see it here in the United States."
In what could have been his final provocation for Trump, late Tuesday on MSNBC, Brennan called Trump "dangerous to our nation" and "the most divisive president we have ever had," who has "badly sullied the reputation of the office of the presidency."
Trump hasn’t just obstructed justice in plain sight, but as was the case with Nixon, he is using the power of the presidency to hurt his political enemies.
The White House is now making clear: You criticize the president, specifically with regard to Russia intervening to help him in his election, then they will use the power of the presidency to hurt you. They’re gonna strip your security clearance to try to discredit you as a critic of the president on Russia. At least when the Nixon White House did it, they had the decency to write ‘Confidential’ on top of their discussions of these sorts of things. We are not blessed in our era with the same set of subtlety or shame. Security clearances are a real thing.
The CIA and all the other agencies who grant them or oversee them. In fact, they have full-fledged, well-established procedures to strip security clearances from people for cause when there is cause to do so. None of those procedures were engaged here. Those procedures were not followed here. Those agencies were not involved. This was just directed personally from the White House from the president himself, who is being hands-on here in the way that Nixon was, in a way that ended up being a real problem for President Nixon 40-plus years ago.
Where does this stop?
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