In the late summer of 2018, just a few months into John Bolton’s national security adviser tenure, he strongly defended President Trump’s decision to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, the pugnacious anti-Trump critic the president has called a “leaker,” “a liar” and ringleader of the debunked Russian collusion investigation.
At the time, Bolton accused Brennan of “politicizing intelligence,” both during the Obama administration and afterward, which he deemed a “very dangerous thing to do.”
“If there is any kind of misconduct, I think there are lots of grounds to have your security clearance revoked for behavior that calls into question your ability to hold the material in confidence,” Bolton told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz. “…For me, the issue is whether he abused information that he attained while he was director of the CIA or he may have attained erroneously or incorrectly after he left.”
Nearly a year and a half later, the shoe is on the other foot..
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5 comments:
All of Trumps pathways lead to Putin
It appears to me that Bolton has a big ego and very thin skin...
See your TDS is still showing ma'am...
8:54 Bless your little heart😂 How do you get through each day knowing Trump is your President🤔🤣
Bolton is an excellent place to start by rigorously enforcing the regulations and safeguards security clearance holders are expected to adhere to, and which they have signed to comply with.
From there find and punish all other leakers.
Security clearance should only be viable while someone is in a job requiring it. Leave the job and it goes on the shelf in an inactive status, where it can be reactivated if another job requires it. Otherwise, as we've seen, it's just a license to steal.
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