Article from Reason by Joe Setyon.
Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) is hailing President Donald Trump’s decision to strip former CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance. But the Kentucky Republican doesn’t think the president should stop with Brennan.
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders accused Brennan, who led the CIA for most of former President Barack Obama’s second term, of “lying.” Brennan’s “recent conduct, characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary,” Sanders said, “is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation’s most closely held secrets.”
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So it came as no surprise that Paul lauded Trump for taking away Brennan’s security clearance. “I urged the President to do this. I filibustered Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA in 2013, and his behavior in government and out of it demonstrate why he should not be allowed near classified information,” Paul said in a statement. “He participated in a shredding of constitutional rights, lied to Congress, and has been monetizing and making partisan political use of his clearance since his departure.”
In an interview yesterday with WKU Public Radio, Paul said he wants other ex-Obama administration intelligence officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, to lose their clearances as well.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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He needs to revoke all the rinos including rand. Security clearances McCain and sessions
Good start
When I was in the Army in the late 60s there was “nice to know, and NEED to know” Even if you had a clearance (which I did) you were not permitted to go shopping for what ever you little heart desired, unless you didn’t mind getting shot and court marshaled (if you lived).
How do these clowns, that have been fired, just walk into secured areas and grab what ever they want. clearance of not. – The fools that are responsible for the security of the material should all be arrested and tried just like the kid in the Navy who took a picture of his bunk. And by the way he DID have a clearance.
Mr. Paul. You and the Prez need to get together and make it clear,in no uncertain terms, that if you abuse your clearance you will spend some time in a federal prison. PERIOD!