Acting on Trump's threat to revoke security clearances of former intelligence officials who critici
Only Trumps ego matters!!--nothing else!
Acting on Trump's threat to revoke security clearances of former intelligence officials who criticize him could backfire in a national crisis
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-intelligence-officials-security-clearance-why-trump-obama-bush-2018-7
Bryan Logan
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President Donald Trump's threat to revoke the security clearances of former US intelligence officials who have criticized him prompted swift reaction on Monday.
Intelligence officials who no longer work for the government generally maintain a security clearance so the latest administration can consult them on matters pertinent to national security.
The White House on Monday suggested President Donald Trump wanted to punish a handful of former top US intelligence officials who have criticized him by revoking their security clearance.
That proposal received swift reactions from the intelligence community and throughout Washington. Presidential administrations have historically relied on former leaders of agencies like the CIA or the FBI, who typically maintain a security clearance after their service has ended, for advice on matters of national security.
In a moment of crisis, these people may offer valuable insight and expertise that could help inform the latest administration's decision, the CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr said. "You want to be able to go back to the former officials who dealt with these problems and be able to talk with them in a classified setting," Starr said on Monday.
"Given the amount of turnover in the Trump administration, it might be, from a national security standpoint, rather valuable to retain these people, to have that ability to consult them," she said.
The White House said former CIA Director John Brennan, former national security adviser Susan Rice, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were among those whose security clearance Trump was considering revoking. The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, accused the group of having "politicized" and "monetized" their clearances.
Starr disputed that claim, saying: "They don't go on TV and disclose classified information. They don't go trolling through files and computer discs. They don't even have, necessarily, a need to know that would allow them to get into classified information." ...................................
trump helsinkiPresident Donald Trump.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
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the security clearance of President Barack Obama while he's at it ?
