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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump wants to sign more security revocations as "a distraction during unfavorable news cycles"
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ICYMI WaPo reports WH has drafted documents revoking the security clearances of current and former officials whom President Trump has demanded be punished for criticizing him or playing a role in the investigation of Russian interference...
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ICYMI WaPo reports WH has drafted documents revoking the security clearances of current and former officials whom President Trump has demanded be punished for criticizing him or playing a role in the investigation of Russian interference...
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White House drafts more clearance cancellations demanded by Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-intelligence-officials-rebuke-trump-for-pulling-brennans-security-clearance/2018/08/17/ea8382f2-a20d-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html
The White House has drafted documents revoking the security clearances of current and former officials whom President Trump has demanded be punished for criticizing him or playing a role in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to senior administration officials.
Trump wants to sign most if not all of them, said one senior White House official, who indicated that communications aides, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Bill Shine, the newly named deputy chief of staff, have discussed the optimum times to release them as a distraction during unfavorable news cycles.
Some presidential aides echoed concerns raised by outside critics that the threatened revocations smack of a Nixonian enemies list, with little or no substantive national security justification. Particular worry has been expressed inside the White House about Trumps statement Friday that he intends very quickly to strip the clearance of current Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Trump, speaking to reporters as he left the White House to spend the weekend at his New Jersey golf club, called Ohr a disgrace, charging that he is tied to special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs investigation of the Russia matter. For him to be in the Justice Department, and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. That is disqualifying for Mueller, he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-intelligence-officials-rebuke-trump-for-pulling-brennans-security-clearance/2018/08/17/ea8382f2-a20d-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html
The White House has drafted documents revoking the security clearances of current and former officials whom President Trump has demanded be punished for criticizing him or playing a role in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to senior administration officials.
Trump wants to sign most if not all of them, said one senior White House official, who indicated that communications aides, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Bill Shine, the newly named deputy chief of staff, have discussed the optimum times to release them as a distraction during unfavorable news cycles.
Some presidential aides echoed concerns raised by outside critics that the threatened revocations smack of a Nixonian enemies list, with little or no substantive national security justification. Particular worry has been expressed inside the White House about Trumps statement Friday that he intends very quickly to strip the clearance of current Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Trump, speaking to reporters as he left the White House to spend the weekend at his New Jersey golf club, called Ohr a disgrace, charging that he is tied to special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs investigation of the Russia matter. For him to be in the Justice Department, and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace. That is disqualifying for Mueller, he said.
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Trump wants to sign more security revocations as "a distraction during unfavorable news cycles" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Aug 2018
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tblue37
(65,456 posts)1. K&R for visibility. nt
thegoose
(3,115 posts)2. Dumpster is creating the bad press
With this shitshow.
Docreed2003
(16,868 posts)3. K&R
This is their play for shitting down the investigation.
calimary
(81,362 posts)4. Makes me think we need someone like Omarosa.
Say what you will about her. She knows his game and plays it on him. And if he has a dozen or so directives to sign, what has Omarosa got? Something like 200 tapes, videos, texts and more.
RockRaven
(14,978 posts)5. Going forward, coverage of each revocation needs to be focused on: which story is he trying to bury?
instead of re-hashing the question of whether the revocation is appropriate or not -- hint: none of them will be appropriate, that's already been made explicit by the Dotard and SHS.
2naSalit
(86,682 posts)6. K&R
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)7. Fuck him.
Just fuck him.