Trump gears up to strip more clearances from officials tied to Russia investigation
Source: washpost
Trump gears up to strip more clearances from officials tied to Russia investigation
August 16 at 7:27 PM
President Trump has told advisers that he is eager to strip more security clearances as part of an escalating attack against people who have criticized him or played a role in the investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, two White House officials said.
Over the past 19 months, Trump has fired or threatened to take action against nearly a dozen current and former officials associated with the inquiry, which he has labeled a “rigged witch hunt,” including former FBI director James B. Comey, former deputy attorney general Sally Yates and former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. All three were dismissed.
Trump intensified his attacks this week by stripping former CIA director John Brennan of his security clearance and announcing that others are under review. Brennan and former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., who is on Trump’s review list, were among the Obama administration officials who briefed Trump before his inauguration on evidence of Russia’s interference in the campaign.
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To critics, Trump’s moves echo President Richard Nixon’s decision to force the abrupt firing of Watergate special counsel Archibald Cox.
“If you did all this in one day, it would have a ‘Saturday night massacre’ odor to it,” said Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings Institution fellow who oversees the Lawfare Blog on national security issues, referring to the 1973 move by Nixon that prompted resignations by the Justice Department’s top two officials. “But you spread it out and get people used to the first one, then you do the second one — over a long period of time, it becomes the new normal.”
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I fear what will happen next.
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Why he wants to convince everybody that he's guilty is a puzzle to me. 
On those amendments he "remembered" over 100 meetings with foreign leaders he neglected to report on his security clearance papers. One of those was a meeting with Sergey Kislyak shortly before the election, oh, and a Russian banker who was purportedly going to loan Kushner money for his 666 Park Ave. boondoggle. He and Ivanka had to amend their income and assets on their financial disclosure several times as well, because they kept "finding" assets they neglected to report (including the Kushners' art collection valued at over $3 million).
Little things like that, you know? Yet Jared and Ivanka both have top security clearances, where as anyone else who failed to report so many glaring items on both their security clearance application, and their financial disclosure would certainly have been denied any security clearance whatsoever (and other people have been rejected for a lot less!). 
But the Trumps are all "special". They're all above the law and any petty security questions put in place to protect our nation and it's secrets don't apply to anyone named 'Trump'. Rules and laws are put in place to keep Democrats from having an easy time giving away our nation's crown jewels. 
But Brennan's a security risk, right Little Donnie? 
I want Trump's blood pressure to go off the scale. I want him to have a debilitating stroke, so that all of the vain bullshit that holds this man together is totally destroyed. I want his right side to be paralyzed, his face drooping and drooling from his mouth. I want "Don-Juan" Trump to be a hideous monster that no woman, for any amount of money, would ever go near. I've never wished anything close to this on anyone in my entire life. I can't ever remember wishing harm on anyone, ever. But all of these things, and more, I wish for Donald Trump. It would be a fitting end for someone so empty, so mean, so vindictive, so vain, and someone with such a false sense of superiority. For you, Donald J. Trump: These are the things I wish for YOU! I know by doing this I open myself up to same criticism heaped upon Trump, about being vindictive and mean. Just this once.....just this once. Trump does it every waking moment of his life.
Isn't everyone on Spanky's enemies list someone Pooty would call an "enemy" for doing their jobs honorably and opposing his criminal behavior?