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Quick Update: White House Press Room "Gasped" When They Heard Their Most Productive Leakers Might Lose Their Security Clearances



Clapper has conceded Trump has the authority to do this:



Ben Shapiro just doesn't know what to think!

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 03:38 PM




Comments

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1 What's not said by these "journalists"...

Why would NON-EMPLOYEES of the government keep their security clearance when they don't need to know?

Posted by: Scott T. at July 23, 2018 03:39 PM (NmR1a)

2 And first?

Posted by: Scott T. at July 23, 2018 03:40 PM (NmR1a)

3 3rd

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 23, 2018 03:40 PM (jxbfJ)

4 Well, of course they did.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 03:40 PM (HwGIC)

5 Did anyone faint?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 03:40 PM (a0IVu)

6 I'd like to hear their audible gasp when the press gets what they have spewed stuffed right back up their collective asses.

Posted by: jc at July 23, 2018 03:41 PM (iRJ+A)

7 I read that as "gaped".

Posted by: typical disgusting Moron at July 23, 2018 03:41 PM (+INtM)

8 I thought that Hillary was the most productive leaker. That's why the adult diaper truck makes a daily drop off at the compound

Posted by: Bruce at July 23, 2018 03:41 PM (8ikIW)

9 flt: Why did Hillary and Obama both go to New Zealand not that long ago on separate trips. Access to Five EYES"

I thought they were visiting Isengard.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2018 03:41 PM (k1TUh)

10 That right there should tell you all you need to know. Revoke 'em.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 23, 2018 03:41 PM (MX7xj)

11 NY's Cuomo is probably upset no one checked with him first.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 03:41 PM (HwGIC)

12 Gasped? Like the opposite of an orgasm?

Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 23, 2018 03:41 PM (ue+Wr)

13 ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!!!!

Posted by: GLADITOR TRUMPICUS at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (npNot)

14 I think Brennan, Clapper, Comey, et all, should have their clearances revoked and be reminded they will be in PMIAP if they so much as sneeze to the wrong person.

Posted by: Blake - used elite salesman at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (qC1Sy)

15 Women gasp at the sight of the Paolo....

Posted by: The Paolo at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (y8Foj)

16 Nobody harrumphed?

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (7n4KQ)

17 Make no mistake, this means they know the pipelines for leaks now. That probably means they know who was feeding these five the info, too.

I'm not sure I buy into the JackStraw scenario, but the parts where NSA sided with the white hats is more credible the longer I think about it...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (AM1GF)

18 Rice is the one that surprises me just a little. She has stay under the radar pretty well.

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (Bdeb0)

19 You can count me in with those who think security clearances ought to be terminated when employment is terminated. Makes no sense for them to retain a clearance afterward, unless going to another job that requires it.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (FCAbp)

20 I'll just wait for Ben Shapiro to gather his thoughts on this before commenting...
/s

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM (W+vEI)

21 We're pulling their security clearances.

Why?

Because they're screaming for a coup against the US Government, you fucking toolbag.

Posted by: Vanya at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM (U7voe)

22
Ben Shapiro just doesn't know what to think!

Fixed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM (BWL+E)

23 NO ONE who is part of ANY NEWS organization, should have a security clearance.


That should be an automatic reason for revocation.

Posted by: Don Q at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM (NgKpN)

24 Do any of these hacks have a "need to know" classified information now that they're all (essentially) working for the propaganda wing of the DNC?

No?

Then these clearances should have been revoked on 21JAN2017

Posted by: DocJ at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM (9HeY9)

25 Oh, and there should be no "might" about revoking security clearances.

Posted by: Blake - used elite salesman at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM (qC1Sy)

26 I watched the Briefing. The press went ape sh*t.

Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM (G0vdT)

27 5 Did anyone faint?
Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 03:40 PM (a0IVu)


I believe one signals one's displeasure nowadays by vomiting, or threatening to.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

28 26
I watched the Briefing. The press went ape sh*t.

Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM (G0vdT)
Poor SHS. Thankless job dealing w/ these tools.

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (a0IVu)

29 NO ONE who is part of ANY NEWS organization, should have a security clearance.


That should be an automatic reason for revocation.
Posted by: Don Q

They should also be given an Atomic Wedgie on a daily basis

Posted by: Bruce at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (8ikIW)

30 I think Brennan, Clapper, Comey, et all, should have their clearances revoked and be reminded they will be in PMIAP if they so much as sneeze to the wrong person.
=========
Oh there's no need to remind them. They know. Quite a high stakes game. Enjoy the show.

Posted by: simplemind at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (vyZ0y)

31 Ben Shapiro thinks revoking Security Clearance is retaliation? Is he Nutz? Has he not been paying attention?

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (HwGIC)

32 The press went ape sh*t.


I read that as "flung ape sh*t".

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (7n4KQ)

33 19 You can count me in with those who think security clearances ought to be terminated when employment is terminated. Makes no sense for them to retain a clearance afterward, unless going to another job that requires it.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (FCAbp)


I seem to remember my clearance being downgraded significantly when I retired from the Navy... it was part of a Exit interview at my final command.

Posted by: Don Q at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (NgKpN)

34 NO ONE who is part of ANY NEWS organization, should have a security clearance.


That should be an automatic reason for revocation.
Posted by: Don Q at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM (NgKpN)

Brennan is essentially selling access to MSNBC.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (y8Foj)

35 Have a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

----- Peter 3:16

Posted by: James Comey at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (AzW6q)

36 They're gasping at this?

What are they going to do on the gallows?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

37 I read that as "flung ape sh*t".

Posted by: Roy at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (7n4KQ)
That is their next step.

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (a0IVu)

38 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

Which one is literally vomiting? The threatening one?

Posted by: Vanya at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (U7voe)

39 >>Make no mistake, this means they know the pipelines for leaks now. That probably means they know who was feeding these five the info, too.




Let's hope they are also taking additional action behind the scenes.


This is definitely being slow-rolled to ease the public into believing all of what the Obama/Hillary cabal did. Can't wait to see the outrage tweets about this in the next few hours/days. Heh,

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (W+vEI)

40 fuck yo couch John Brennan

Posted by: x at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (nFwvY)

41 Anything that causes the MFM to gasp is good for the country.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (y7DUB)

42 Ben Shapiro: Gasps will cost you extra.

Posted by: Under Fire at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (r9UYA)

43 IMPEACH!!!!

Posted by: CNN at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (VckGX)

44
ha ha. - nelson mandela muntz

How do we know what access a security clearance for ex-cia and nsa heads still have? I don't think we can know. NGU says their buddies can't give them info, but for that level do we really know. We do know they are leaking like sieves.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (r+sAi)

45 White House Press Room "Gasped" When They Heard Their Most Productive Leakers Might Lose Their Security Clearances

Having difficulty typing. Schadenboner. keps. gettng. in. waay.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (6eEQ+)

46 Did anyone faint?
Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 03:40 PM (a0IVu)

I believe one signals one's displeasure nowadays by vomiting, or threatening to.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
=======
Oh too blasé Sh!+ing in the halls is where its at these days.

Posted by: simplemind at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (vyZ0y)

47 Because they're screaming for a coup against the US Government, you fucking toolbag.

Posted by: Vanya at July 23, 2018 03:43 PM


Why do I suspect you're holding back?

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (LOgQ4)

48 When was the last time a highly successful
culture became this crazy, corrupt and suicidal at the height of its success? Roman Empire, pre-revolutionary France or Russia -- I
don't know.

There is going to be a fight. There simply will be, and increasingly I think there should be -- a necessary clean-up. This corruption has to be beaten to death like it's a rabid animal on the attack.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 23, 2018 03:45 PM (Tm077)

49 Time to plug in Old Sparky.

Posted by: ALH at July 23, 2018 03:46 PM (uLuPn)

50
My first reaction was why announce that they're THINKING about pulling the clearances, just do it and announce after the trigger's been pulled.

Then again, I'm thinking that this is a trap. As in, every one of these cocksuckers is wiretapped to the gills and it's recon by fire. Someone's gonna break and leak something juicy and highly classified. Whether it comes to anything.... that's another issue entirely.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2018 03:46 PM (veoSD)

51 Actually, Sanders announcement was a thing of beauty.

One reporter asked about Brennan and Sanders said yes he was, in addition to Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Hayden, and Rice.

It was righteous.

Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2018 03:46 PM (G0vdT)

52 I gasped when I saw Abigail's tit-tays.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 03:46 PM (AzW6q)

53 Ben Shapiro is feeling the sads after his rebuke by Mark Duplass. It's ok buddy, maybe next time they will let you sit at their table.

Posted by: Gman at July 23, 2018 03:46 PM (AYflH)

54 Fire everyone. Revoke all clearances. Steam clean the carpets. Start over.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2018 03:46 PM (pUDQf)

55
Poor SHS. Thankless job dealing w/ these tools.

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (a0IVu)


Actually informing jackals they're losing their sources is a perk.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 23, 2018 03:47 PM (10vO4)

56 Dear Diary,
That big meanie Mrs. Huckabee-Sanders said that Trump was like, going to revoke the security clearances for my BFFs. This is like so tragic. I like totes let out a gasp for real. Today was so, like, sad.

Posted by: Jim Acosta at July 23, 2018 03:47 PM (e1wTh)

57 I'll take care of this.

Posted by: Judge Kalikimaka at July 23, 2018 03:47 PM (HgMAr)

58 Security clearances need to be yanked not so much because the malefactors will have access to secret materials, but so that we can prosecute the living shit out of anyone who DOES have access leaking it to the malefactors.

Otherwise, the leakers could claim that they were merely providing secret information to someone with a security clearance, so no biggie.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at July 23, 2018 03:47 PM (YqDXo)

59 Ben Shapiro thinks revoking Security Clearance is retaliation? Is he Nutz? Has he not been paying attention?
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (HwGIC)

It IS retaliation... For being a collection of cartoonishly corrupt, lying, coup-backing sewer dwelling shitheads.

Action, meet reaction.

Posted by: Vanya at July 23, 2018 03:47 PM (U7voe)

60 They not only gasped, they clutched their pearls, too.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 23, 2018 03:47 PM (ptqGC)

61 I believe one signals one's displeasure nowadays by vomiting, or threatening to.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity


That's a $160 charge on Uber, by the way. Whether you hurled or not.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 23, 2018 03:47 PM (LOgQ4)

62 I didn't gasp when I heard but I did fart silently...

Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2018 03:47 PM (LiyEm)

63
Democracy Dies in Revoked Security Clearances!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2018 03:48 PM (BWL+E)

64 Make their employer pay for a new background check when going to private contractor. Contractor to contractor maybe expedited depending on gap between employment.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 23, 2018 03:48 PM (X/Cr2)

65 Does having a security clearance mean that you're actually receiving security updates if you're not in the government? I think not. It's not like Team Trump is briefing Susan Rice. So what's the actual impact of revoking a security clearance, other than mere retaliation?


It's almost as if Shapiro's forgotten all of the leaks from the first 8 mos. or so of Trump's presidency.

I think he'll be able to figure out the impact soon enough...

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2018 03:48 PM (W+vEI)

66
Having difficulty typing. Schadenboner. keps. gettng. in. waay.


Teach it to type

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 23, 2018 03:48 PM (10vO4)

67 Rescind Barky's and Joey the Paste Eaters, too, while your at it.

Posted by: ALH at July 23, 2018 03:48 PM (uLuPn)

68 Why do those fucks still need clearances???

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 23, 2018 03:48 PM (so+oy)

69 I had a TS/SCI Clearance in the military and if I farted in the wrong direction I could lose my clearance. Makes me sick that the traitor Obama had access to the Nuke Codes and trees idiots still have clearance....

Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at July 23, 2018 03:48 PM (qM84C)

70 Unnamed sources with top secret clearances announced today they lost top secret clearances and can no longer be unnamed sources.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2018 03:48 PM (pUDQf)

71
We needed to have some of the ladies (male or female) swoon with the back of their hand to the forehead.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (BWL+E)

72 In some, many cases, people in gov go from one job to another and they both require a security clearance. Even many jobs in the private sector require one. SO it makes no sense to revoke security clearances before their expiration dates. AND AND AND as I and others have said without access, a security clearance is useless. So while I am all in favor of punishing these commie cock suckers and I am vindictive, revoking their security clearances now is mostly just for show.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (Lg2h/)

73
Shapiro says its for retaliation when its just as easily to be assumed about leaking.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (r+sAi)

74 Oh and if I wasn't before I am now officially done with little Ben.

Posted by: steevy at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (LiyEm)

75 They not only gasped, they clutched their pearls, too.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

Did they pull them out of their butthole first like they were starting a lawnmower?

Posted by: Bruce at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (8ikIW)

76 Clapper's comment, "I guess legally the president has that prerogative" is comedy gold.

So much butt hurt in that statement.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (ptqGC)

77 Ben Shapiro just doesn't know what to think!

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 03:38 PM

Well it's not racism related so it's all legal and moral in Hollywood Ben's mind.

It's time to come to terms that this little turd and the rest of his inner circle and bffs from NYTs "Intellectual Dark Web leaders of the right" are gatekeepers for Globalism and will fight any American First nationalism. Nationalism for countries in Western Civilization should be fought and resisted By Any Means Necessary.

Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (ue+Wr)

78 I don't believe that this would have been put out there if they weren't about to actually do it. It would look incredibly weak to make this proposal and then to walk it back just because the press "gasped". It should have been done long ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (k1TUh)

79 Cant wait to see Brennans Orc looking face bluster this away on Twatter.

Posted by: WonkishRogue Tarrasque Enthusiast at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (O9JR8)

80 If you want to cut off the snake's head, revoke ValJar's clearance.

Then her freedom privileges.

Posted by: trev006 at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (S6rSu)

81 The problem I see is that as long as anyone currently in the CIA/FBI/DoJ retains a security clearance, the information spigot to these crooks will probably remain wide open.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (AzW6q)

82 Abigail's funbags are magnificent.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (X/Cr2)

83 Ben, Ben, Ben.

Don't be a dumbass. Revoking security clearances has multiple effects, including the releasing of leaked confidential data being a crime.

I know you think you're the smartest man in the history of the world, but do try and keep up.

Posted by: Sponge at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (F4u7C)

84 Shapiro says its for retaliation when its just as easily to be assumed about leaking.

***

It is retaliation in the same way that the police retaliate against you when you rob a bank.


Posted by: 18-1 at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (eSx+E)

85 You can count me in with those who think security clearances ought to be terminated when employment is terminated. Makes no sense for them to retain a clearance afterward, unless going to another job that requires it.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls



I have clearance and access to certain sensitive data areas with my company.

Most people do to be able to do their jobs.

I'll lose my clearance and access the day I leave employment. Why is it any different for government employees?

Posted by: rickb223 Super Elite at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (zcM+Q)

86 Why would NON-EMPLOYEES of the government keep their security clearance when they don't need to know?
Posted by: Scott T. at July 23, 2018 03:39 PM (NmR1a)


Precisely. If I no longer had a need to know, my clearance would be yanked faster than you could say, "Hillary! mishandled classified materials."

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (5Yee7)

87 The problem I see is that as long as anyone currently in the CIA/FBI/DoJ retains a security clearance, the information spigot to these crooks will probably remain wide open.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (AzW6q)

No. One has nothing to do with the other

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (Lg2h/)

88 I had access to Top Secret - Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS SCI) with all the alphabets in a previous life and can say with complete certainty that my security clearance levels were immediately updated to reflect the "need-to-know" levels as soon as that assignment was finished.

And the only reason that these clowns still have their security clearances is b/c some clerk was either lazy or simply was not notified to revoke/modify clearances or told not to do so by his/her leadership.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (mfjYD)

89 73
Shapiro says its for retaliation when its just as easily to be assumed about leaking.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (r+sAi)

He is dishonest and had an agenda.

Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (ue+Wr)

90 "Why would NON-EMPLOYEES of the government keep their security clearance when they don't need to know?"

Just so. And stated in the first comment, too. Well done Scott T.

Posted by: TCDD, hooting hollerin, etc. at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (XjVix)

91
Potential dates will no longer be impressed by a Top Secret security clearance.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (BWL+E)

92 which side is ben on?

/

Posted by: concrete girl at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (BVthB)

93 Does having a security clearance mean that you're actually receiving security updates if you're not in the government? I think not. It's not like Team Trump is briefing Susan Rice. So what's the actual impact of revoking a security clearance, other than mere retaliation?

Turn the argument around: if Rice isn't being briefed, then why does she need a security clearance?

The crucial point, I suspect: leaking secret information to someone with a security clearance gives the leaker protection from the consequences of doing so.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

94 Cant wait to see Brennans Orc looking face bluster this away on Twatter.
Posted by: WonkishRogue Tarrasque Enthusiast at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (O9JR

HOW DARE YOU DENY ME THE ABILITY TO WEAPONIZE THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY AGAINST THE PRESIDENT!

RESIST!

COURAGE!

ALLAHU ACK... I MEAN GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Posted by: John Brennan at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (U7voe)

95 "Ben Shapiro just doesn't know what to think!"

Surely that's a step up.

Posted by: George LeS at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (59GGI)

96
Rand Paul certainly thinks there is a reason to revoke the clearances. Again do we know the access of former cia heads? Maybe in the past their was reason to keep access just for consultation.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (r+sAi)

97 Clasping of pearls, sucking of teeth. This is what DC does.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (2LelM)

98 Precisely. If I no longer had a need to know, my clearance would be yanked faster than you could say, "Hillary! mishandled classified materials."
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (5Yee7)

your access is yanked, making your security clearance moot

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (Lg2h/)

99 76 Clapper's comment, "I guess legally the president has that prerogative" is comedy gold.

So much butt hurt in that statement.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (ptqGC)
-----

I almost give Clapper a pass. Brennan was conductor on the "Get Trump" train. Clapper was just punching tickets.

Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2018 03:52 PM (G0vdT)

100 I don't believe that this would have been put out there if they weren't about to actually do it. It would look incredibly weak to make this proposal and then to walk it back just because the press "gasped". It should have been done long ago.
=======
I just have a feeling that one of the reasons that Sarah has stayed in this job is because she knows that there are days coming in the future that are going to make all the bad days worth it. Today was a good day.

Posted by: simplemind at July 23, 2018 03:52 PM (vyZ0y)

101 The problem I see is that as long as anyone currently in the CIA/FBI/DoJ retains a security clearance, the information spigot to these crooks will probably remain wide open.

Theoretically true. And perhaps some true-believers would be willing to risk real, serious time in Club Fed for these hacks.

But I'm guessing even most of the true believers know they'd go to the can if they got caught and would probably tell Muzzy Brennan and co to FOAD

Posted by: DocJ at July 23, 2018 03:52 PM (9HeY9)

102 Gasped? I pitched a tent when I heard.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 03:52 PM (y8Foj)

103 Let these people keep their clearances...for the People!

Posted by: The DNC at July 23, 2018 03:52 PM (e1wTh)

104 The crucial point, I suspect: leaking secret information to someone with a security clearance gives the leaker protection from the consequences of doing so.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

No it does not.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 03:52 PM (Lg2h/)

105 Baldysmash GUESSES PDT has that right?

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at July 23, 2018 03:52 PM (y3aQB)

106
The problem I see is that as long as anyone currently in the CIA/FBI/DoJ retains a security clearance, the information spigot to these crooks will probably remain wide open.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 03:49 PM (AzW6q)


It's basically their get rich in retirement plan

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 23, 2018 03:52 PM (10vO4)

107 Fainting couches stat! The msm might hurt themselves.

Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable. at July 23, 2018 03:53 PM (0OmEj)

108 Shapiro thinks it's for retaliation?

Apparently he slept through Obama's 8 years of petty sh#t.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2018 03:53 PM (W+vEI)

109 There's need to know and there's clearances.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2018 03:53 PM (pUDQf)

110 Clapper "guesses" that the President legally has this authority? Putz.

Too bad it wasn't the press's last gasp.

Posted by: Cheri at July 23, 2018 03:53 PM (oiNtH)

111 Speaking of shitweasels, I recently learned there's a social group here made up of retired DC vermin. They call their group the Beltway Bandits. So cute.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 23, 2018 03:53 PM (ptqGC)

112 There's need to know and there's clearances.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2018 03:53 PM (pUDQf)

Yup

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 03:53 PM (Lg2h/)

113 That redacted FISA application. Signed by McCabe on behalf of the FBI. The name of the signing Special Investigatory Agent who had to attest under penalty of perjury was redacted.

Strzok? Let us pray!

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2018 03:53 PM (qMV6r)

114 By revoking the clearance, they have to be sponsored by a new administration for the clearance and must pass the clearance investigation - again. This means they cannot invoke immunity to any question asked of them. This pretty much ends their future administration roles considerably. No legacy for Obamites.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM (2LelM)

115 The crucial point, I suspect: leaking secret information to someone with a security clearance gives the leaker protection from the consequences of doing so.

Nope.

Posted by: DocJ at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM (9HeY9)

116 19
You can count me in with those who think security clearances ought to be
terminated when employment is terminated. Makes no sense for them to
retain a clearance afterward, unless going to another job that requires
it.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (FCAbp)

It costs an obscene amount of money and takes almost a year to get a basic clearance if a private citizen. That's not plausible for filling jobs with new hires if they can't get to work until a year after being hired. IIRC the clearance was good for 5 years after leaving the company you got it with.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM (UBzPO)

117 I'm stating the obvious here. But the reporters "gasped" at the news not because of the news itself. But because of what it implies. They know something big is afoot.

Something about a house of cards and a might wind.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM (y8Foj)

118 I commented this AM that I wanted PDT to go all Godfather on these twerps, 'Tonight we settle all the family business." I still think that's the way to go, although Tombstone would work nicely, too. "I'm your Huckleberry" or "Hell's coming with me." Either/or.

Posted by: jmel at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM (OeWgo)

119 101
The problem I see is that as long as anyone currently in the
CIA/FBI/DoJ retains a security clearance, the information spigot to
these crooks will probably remain wide open.



Theoretically true. And perhaps some true-believers would be willing to risk real, serious time in Club Fed for these hacks.



But I'm guessing even most of the true believers know they'd go to
the can if they got caught and would probably tell Muzzy Brennan and co
to FOAD

Posted by: DocJ at July 23, 2018 03:52 PM (9HeY9)

If recent history has taught us anything, there are laws for us little people, then there are (not any) laws for them. They get the get-out-of-jail-free cards, immunity, etc. where us unwashed would lose everything we have and be sentenced to years in PMITA prison.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM (jxbfJ)

120 Symbolism is sometimes just that ... symbolism. Symbols mean something ... its why we have them.

Posted by: SH at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM (sX1BW)

121 Why are these fired assholes still considered a good risk anyway?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM (oVJmc)

122 None of those worthless fucks should EVER have been given a key to the pisser, much less a security clearance.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM (0DVOr)

123 i gasped when I found out these Barky drones still had clearance, despite not having, you know, jobs with the Executive anymore

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (1siNL)

124 If they are revoked then the people leaking top secret info to them may be in jeopardy for disclosing that info to unauthorized personnel.

Posted by: BuckIV at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (PZ2ib)

125 Lil'Ben doesn't think it makes any difference, so why does he seem to denounce doing this thing that makes no difference?
easy answer ... just another dig at Trump, as his nature is.

So the question ... IS there any difference? If they are somehow caught holding fresh top secret details, is it a bigger crime if they attained it without legit access and No clearance, than if they somehow got it but had clearance?

And have none of them used their clearances for anything? seems kinda strange, but I have no clue on procedures inside the beltway.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (bT8Z4)

126 A Subaru blew past my car and two others on the highway a few minutes. We were already speeding. I thought lesbians were sensible drivers.

Posted by: Northernlurker at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (aCNZ6)

127 They not only gasped, they clutched their pearls, too.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 23, 2018 03:47 PM (ptqGC)
...........

Which ain't easy when you're wringing your hands.

Posted by: wth at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (HgMAr)

128 That's why the press gasped, their sources may dry up.

Posted by: BuckIV at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (PZ2ib)

129 They also went eleventy when Bush fired the seven US Attorneys which is in his powers and not unprecedented though they claimed the timing was.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (V+jJS)

130
i gasped when I found out these Barky drones still had clearance, despite not having, you know, jobs with the Executive anymore

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (1siNL)


I suppose ValJar still has hers. She's the head of the snake.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (ptqGC)

131 I'm stating the obvious here. But the reporters "gasped" at the news not because of the news itself. But because of what it implies. They know something big is afoot.

Something about a house of cards and a might wind.
=====
U could be right.

Posted by: Q at July 23, 2018 03:56 PM (alic9)

132 I Gasped when I saw the price on a box of Tokarev ammo...

Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2018 03:56 PM (DpEis)

133 Personally, I would prefer impeachment.

Posted by: SH at July 23, 2018 03:56 PM (sX1BW)

134 Fire up Marine 1 and revoke their clearance from gravity!

Posted by: Max Power at July 23, 2018 03:56 PM (q177U)

135 Having security clearance might give a certain level of cover to people e-mailing you things they want you to leak, however.

Posted by: DaveM at July 23, 2018 03:56 PM (WWC3Y)

136 The crucial point, I suspect: leaking secret information to someone with a security clearance gives the leaker protection from the consequences of doing so.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

No it doesn't

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 03:56 PM (Bdeb0)

137
I don't think their access was yanked. Yes, just a gut feeling based on the evil obama admin and deep state. Remember obama allowed all agencies to share and unmask just to f with Trump and create leaks. Not to mention telling them not to share some info with a duly elected POTUS.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2018 03:56 PM (r+sAi)

138 Ben "zero tolerance for racism but tolerance for pedophilia" Shapiro.

Ben " I don't care about the Browning of America because it's totes ideas that matter" Shapiro

Yeah, this fucking guy has no agenda. *cough* globalist. Trotskyite. *cough* cough*

Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 23, 2018 03:56 PM (ue+Wr)

139 109 There's need to know and there's clearances.
----------------
This is true. But revoking a clearance means to gain that clearance again they must pass the investigation - which includes actions during their previous stint and in between. They have to be sponsored by a new administration to even be eligible for the clearance. It will slow, if not stop, them from being effective for a new admin for months.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 23, 2018 03:57 PM (2LelM)

140 If recent history has taught us anything, there are laws for us little people, then there are (not any) laws for them.

Brennan will never see jail time.
Ditto Clapper, Jimmy Drama, etc.

The GS-9 caught feeding one of them TS info as a means of income supplementation? Yeah, pretty sure their Get Out Of Jail Free Card ain't gonna work.

Posted by: DocJ at July 23, 2018 03:57 PM (9HeY9)

141 Ben Shapiro does know what to think:

March 4, 2016

I will never vote for Donald Trump.

Ever.

I will never vote for Donald Trump because I stand with certain principles. I stand with small government and free markets and religious freedom and personal responsibility. Donald Trump stands against all of these things. He stands for Planned Parenthood and trade restrictions and targeting of political enemies and an anti-morality foreign policy and government domination of religion and nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power. I stand with the Constitution of the United States, and its embedded protection of my God-given rights through governmental checks and balances. Donald Trump does not. I stand with conservatism. Donald Trump stands against it.

I stand with #NeverTrump.


https://tinyurl.com/ybe55tsn

From his Dailywire site. There's plenty more in that vein too in his 'article'.

Now can we quit pretending this asshole has anything interesting to say?

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 23, 2018 03:57 PM (0ogQG)

142 If they are revoked then the people leaking top secret info to them may be in jeopardy for disclosing that info to unauthorized personnel.
Posted by: BuckIV at July 23, 2018 03:55 PM (PZ2ib)

No. You still can not leak info, or should I say reveal sensative/secret info EXCEPT on a need to know basis no matter what the security level of the person you are leaking to

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 03:57 PM (Lg2h/)

143 Just how distraught were the press whores? Did they need some coloring books and cuddly golden retrievers to calm down?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 03:57 PM (a0IVu)

144 No one who is currently in Congress or even the President has the right to see certain documents requested from the FBI. It's absurd to think this clown car list of people should have clearance to see them.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2018 03:57 PM (/qEW2)

145 PRESS GOES FULL EDITH BUNKER!

Boy trapped in refrigerator eats own foot!

critical shortage of caps and exclamation marks

Posted by: ro-man at July 23, 2018 03:57 PM (RuIsu)

146 The good news? All the folks who get their security clearances revoked are given a vapor trail of extra blue check marks on Twitter.

Posted by: Milo delenda est at July 23, 2018 03:57 PM (Sjz1F)

147 So do Hills Pantsuit, Obama Marx, etc., all still have their clearance? I realize, to my own embarrassment, I thought when the new guys took over, the old guys lost a lot of their access to info.

If they still have it, no wonder we have a shadow puppet govt. going on.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 03:57 PM (HwGIC)

148 M0NDAY N1GHT MA$$ACR3!!!

Posted by: The Deranged Press Corps at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (e1wTh)

149 I know I endlessly beat the drum for Dan Bongino's daily podcast. There is a reason for that.

He is the guy who knows the most about the Russia Collusion Hoax.

Bongino's podcast today is a thing of beauty:

https://www.bongino.com/july-23-

2018-ep-768-the-collusion-hoax-is-

finally-exposed/

(Spaces removed)

Posted by: Sharkman at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (BfOXk)

150 Tell Benny they should have taken away Sandy Berger's security clearance before he absconded with information that should have been more secure.

Posted by: I'm Tucker Carlson and I will destroy you at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (tGply)

151 Shapiro tries to play coy, occasionally, but yeah, not on our side ultimately... just another Jonah G....

Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (DpEis)

152 >>No. You still can not leak info, or should I say reveal sensitive/secret info EXCEPT on a need to know basis no matter what the security level of the person you are leaking to
Posted by: Nevergiveup




Thanks for the clarification!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (W+vEI)

153 132. Da, costly. But worth every kopek.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (fA1SL)

154 I like it. When they continue to leak because people still talk to them because #deepState, someone can be implicated for mishandling classified materials as well, which is a net win.

If it ever happens of course (prosecutions, not leaking). Hillary was allowed to plead ignorance, after all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (I2dne)

155 I assume the reporters gasped because they themselves considered their own status as 'security clearance through association', which means they think they lost their own clearance, which in a way, they did. No more unnamed sources with access to TS material. Until more shitweasels in the CIA/DOJ/Fibbie start leaking, which now is a big ole federal crime.

Wait- nevermind. We don't prosecute for dissiminating classified material. I forgot. Thanks Hilldawg!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (pUDQf)

156
I'm stating the obvious here. But the reporters "gasped" at the news not
because of the news itself. But because of what it implies. They know
something big is afoot.



Something about a house of cards and a might wind.


Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 03:54 PM

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Yep, and Rand Paul gave Trump the perfect cover to revoke all of their clearances.


All Trump has to say is that the Senator from Kentucky came to me and recommended that I revoke all of their clearances and access and presented a compelling case of why I should do it.......and I followed his recommendations.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (+Dllb)

157 No. One has nothing to do with the other
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 03:50 PM (Lg2h/)

-------

your access is yanked, making your security clearance moot
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 03:51 PM (Lg2h/)

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I don't understand... if this doesn't materially alter their access to information, then why revoke the clearances?

This is all so esoteric to me....

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (AzW6q)

158 Kraken, you have a 52?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (0DVOr)

159 126 A Subaru blew past my car and two others on the highway a few minutes. We were already speeding. I thought lesbians were sensible drivers.
----------------------
Subaru makes a hot little sports car. Very top performance for the money.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (2LelM)

160 I know a lot of my fellow Morons give him a lot of slack, but can we stop with Ben Shapiro already? He's as much a NeverTrumper as Wilson, Goldberg, and Kristol. His rare admissions of Trump doing something worthwhile does not counteract his constant whining about the death of his pussified brand of conservatism.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (gA69l)

161 To be fair, the gasping noise could have been the collective noise from all the assholes and the vaginas in the room clintching up at once.

Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (ue+Wr)

162 New internet. New hash?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (dNzKv)

163 If recent history has taught us anything, there are laws for us little people, then there are (not any) laws for them.

Brennan will never see jail time.
Ditto Clapper, Jimmy Drama, etc.

The GS-9 caught feeding one of them TS info as a means of income supplementation? Yeah, pretty sure their Get Out Of Jail Free Card ain't gonna work.
======
Public charges are punishment enough let me tell you!!

Posted by: Sandy Burglar at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (iZocF)

164 I think little Ben is angling to become the next David Gergen, the "go-to" Republican for the MSM.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (H8QX8)

165 @141


Ben Shapiro is a paycheck and campus "CONservative"


He doesn't mean a word of what he says.


I also believe he was behind the take down of Milo, who was cutting in on his campus coin.


He's trying the same shit with Candace Owens.


Posted by: Kreplach at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (UfMVm)

166 The only reason I hang out with Ben Shapiro is to try to get close to his sister.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (oVJmc)

167 I must say, Rand Paul has not disappointed lately. That roughing up by his liberal neighbor may have been a wake up call.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (ptqGC)

168
Either way, there appears to be no consequences for leaking if it involves certain people. Brennan can tell ya.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (r+sAi)

169 I dunno dNzKv sounds a little too Russian.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (dNzKv)

170 So if the Security clearances are just window dressing then why the fainting couch Ben?

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 23, 2018 04:00 PM (V+jJS)

171 Here's the thing you can have a TS/SCI clearance and only have "access" to 1 or 2 compartments out of 100's if not 1000's of compartments because you don't have need to know access.

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:00 PM (Bdeb0)

172 Ben Shapiro does know what to think:

March 4, 2016

I will never vote for Donald Trump.

Ever.

I will never vote for Donald Trump because I stand with certain principles. I stand with small government and free markets and religious freedom and personal responsibility. Donald Trump stands against all of these things. He stands for Planned Parenthood and trade restrictions and targeting of political enemies and an anti-morality foreign policy and government domination of religion and nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power. I stand with the Constitution of the United States, and its embedded protection of my God-given rights through governmental checks and balances. Donald Trump does not. I stand with conservatism. Donald Trump stands against it.

I stand with #NeverTrump.
--------------------------------------------



See, these asshats can't just say--"I don't like the guy", or "I disagree with his policies." No, they have to portray themselves as on the side of the angels, all pure and noble.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:00 PM (y8Foj)

173 KV-2 is stronk tenk.

Posted by: Marshal Zhukov at July 23, 2018 04:00 PM (gA69l)

174 158 Kraken, you have a 52?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (0DVOr)

M54, and a few M57s...

Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2018 04:00 PM (DpEis)

175 When Sarah begins a press briefing by announcing that PDT "is all out of bubble gum" then you'll know it's time for some payback.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 23, 2018 04:00 PM (OkGBW)

176 Att fiber internet woo!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 23, 2018 04:00 PM (dNzKv)

177 >>> I dunno dNzKv sounds a little too Russian.


KV-2 is stronk tenk.

Posted by: Marshal Zhukov at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (gA69l)

178 Am proud to see Kraken taking up the challenge and preparing to use the Fist of the SMR.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (fA1SL)

179 I don't understand... if this doesn't materially alter their access to information, then why revoke the clearances?

This is all so esoteric to me....
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

It sends a message.

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (Bdeb0)

180 Hmm, I'm wondering if Trump has the "art of the deal" in play.

Rand Paul comes out and says that he's undecided on Kavanaugh. Then he goes to the White House to talk to Trump about Brennan.

Who thinks Trump said to Paul "I agree with you on Brennan but I need your vote on Kavanaugh. I'll get Brennan's security clearance revoked as well the rest of the rats nest. You just give me your vote on Kavanaugh.

Paul: "Deal"

Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (G0vdT)

181 Drudge headlines: Cohen gives Feds 12 recordings.
Is this even legal? Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (a0IVu)

182 "Come on over and join our 'Cuck Crews!' We'll still pay you to lie and break laws, even without your clearances -- and to sleep with our wives." -- Captain Biff Kristol

Posted by: ShainS at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (3s5Dr)

183 Why was Brennan granted immunity in the Manifort case?

Posted by: Mr Pink at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (ZbsqP)

184 Why is trump "looking into" revoking. How about active voice. "I have revoked their clearance".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 23, 2018 04:02 PM (dNzKv)

185 New internet. New hash?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (dNzKv)


Did you say hash!??!

Posted by: Tommy Chong at July 23, 2018 04:02 PM (F4u7C)

186 Why can't Cap'n Bill's Ahoy! cruise hit an iceberg?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 23, 2018 04:02 PM (kFnmp)

187 What in the hell? BRENNAN gets immunity? Wth is he even suspected of doing?

Posted by: Mr Pink at July 23, 2018 04:02 PM (ZbsqP)

188 "I did a lame shitpost about Valerie Jarrett on twitter" --- FIRE THAT RACIST

"my buddies bungholed little kids and I joked about it" -- aww, why you got to start a Witch Hunt

Ben Shapiro's world.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 23, 2018 04:02 PM (1siNL)

189 183. James, not John. So, probably yet another lousy potato-eater.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 23, 2018 04:02 PM (fA1SL)

190 Why is trump "looking into" revoking. How about active voice. "I have revoked their clearance".

Still about 6-hours left in PDJTs working day.

Posted by: DocJ at July 23, 2018 04:02 PM (9HeY9)

191 As someone pointed out, Sandy Berger was able to access information because of his security clearance.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (V+jJS)

192 Trump about to start talking - is anyone listening in?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (a0IVu)

193 Drudge headlines: Cohen gives Feds 12 recordings.
Is this even legal? Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?
Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (a0IVu)

That's selectively applied these days....

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (y8Foj)

194 183 Why was Brennan granted immunity in the Manifort case?
Posted by: Mr Pink at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (ZbsqP

How else do you let someone get off Scott free for their crimes? Don't forget Podesta.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (pUDQf)

195 Drudge headlines: Cohen gives Feds 12 recordings.
Is this even legal? Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?
Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (a0IVu)


He's a slimy little punk who's career is circling the drain and, like rats in a sewer, is swimming to stay afloat.

Posted by: Tommy Chong at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (F4u7C)

196 Tough shit on time and cost to get a clearance.

I had a measley secret-level clearance in the army. It took time to get; till then, no access. And after discharge, there was no reason for me to have it.

Time and cost are just part of the process.

If you're going from one job reqiring a clearance to another, that's another kettle of fish. And I could see having expedited procedures in place for people who've held clearances in the recent past.

But just letting clearances hang out there indefinitely? Nope.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (FCAbp)

197 Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (a0IVu)

I overruled it.

Posted by: Kimba Wood at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (e1wTh)

198 I don't understand... if this doesn't materially alter their access to information, then why revoke the clearances?

This is all so esoteric to me....
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (AzW6q)

Your confusing 2 things. Everything in the Military/Gov/Intel is compartmentalized. For example I have a certain level of Security Clearance. And in my case I have access to those systems that allow me to do my job. Some of it is pretty sensitive. That does not mean I have access to less sensitive system because my security clearance is so high, because I have no need to access those systems in my job. But I could not access any of them without a security clearance. But if my access to all the systems was revoked, and when I leave the navy it would be, my security clearance might still be valid but useless

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (Lg2h/)

199 Tokarev a fine weapon... needs to be retrofitted with a trigger assembly tho, every time... the Commies favor a trigger pull that involves yanking...

Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (DpEis)

200
Is this even legal? Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (a0IVu)


It means Trump gave permission. I think there's nothing damaging on them

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (10vO4)

201 Drudge headlines: Cohen gives Feds 12 recordings.
Is this even legal? Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?





Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM

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Doesn't make any bit of difference as none of that stuff will ever see the inside of a courtroom let alone an actual trial where they can be challenged.


It's all there for the leak value. I expect them to be leaked by the fbi by Friday.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (+Dllb)

202 It's the same way it always works. Upper level people get to keep their active clearances, the rank and file get 'em jerked the instant their employment ends.

Worked the same way with computers/laptops when I was in private industry. A management type leaves their job, for whatever reason, they take their computer (and anything else they want) with them, no questions asked. When some low-level office worker or programmer leaves, everything is checked and repossessed on the spot.

Posted by: West at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (7Fa8Y)

203 151 Shapiro tries to play coy, occasionally, but yeah, not on our side ultimately... just another Jonah G....
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2018 03:58 PM (DpEis)



That's being too kind.

He's Bill Kristol Jr.

Posted by: buzzion at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (lKs2v)

204 See, these asshats can't just say--"I don't like the guy", or "I disagree with his policies." No, they have to portray themselves as on the side of the angels, all pure and noble.
Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:00 PM (y8Foj)


I would say they are angels, the fallen, dark kind. People forget those are angels too. But then, I don't like going that far and bringing in the supernatural to this. So I probably shouldn't have even made a post. Oh well.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (HwGIC)

205 He's trying the same shit with Candace Owens.


Posted by: Kreplach at July 23, 2018 03:59 PM (UfMVm)

He backtracked hard on that. She kicked his ass.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (H8QX8)

206 194 183 Why was Brennan granted immunity in the Manifort case?
Posted by: Mr Pink at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (ZbsqP
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It was a James Brennan, not John Brennan. I have no idea who James Brennan is.

Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (G0vdT)

207
My ancestors didn't cross a frozen river in the middle of the night to kill British mercenaries... on Christmas Day... in order for the enemies of freedom to get a lifetime security clearance.

Fuck 'em up the ass.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (LOgQ4)

208 >>I must say, Rand Paul has not disappointed lately. That roughing up by his liberal neighbor may have been a wake up call.



https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/ 1021411226386018306

Amazing how inspiring two near-death experiences in the last year, both of which could be attributed to the political climate created by John Brennan and co., can be for Rand Paul, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (W+vEI)

209 Why is trump "looking into" revoking. How about active voice. "I have revoked their clearance".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Because I want to control the narrative for the rest of the week.

Posted by: Stray voltage My Uncle taught me all about it when he went through Tesla's papers at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (vyZ0y)

210 >>92
which side is ben on?

On his left the last time I saw him. Then again, I only saw the back of his head.

Posted by: Michael Medved at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (r9UYA)

211 As someone pointed out, Sandy Berger was able to access information because of his security clearance.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (V+jJS)

Not really. Yes he probably still had a security clearance but someone allowed him access. which was a mistake

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (Lg2h/)

212
What in the hell? BRENNAN gets immunity? Wth is he even suspected of doing?


Posted by: Mr Pink at July 23, 2018 04:02 PM

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It's not that brennan.......

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (+Dllb)

213 199. CZ52 for me. Replace the firing pin and all springs - stronk pishtolet.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (fA1SL)

214 Why was Brennan granted immunity in the Manifort case?<<<<

So he can lie through his teeth.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (r+sAi)

215 Ben Shapiro?

Michelle Fields. All you need to know about his maturity and political judgment.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (H8QX8)

216 Is this what a marginalized group looks like?




LOL.





Yes it is.

Posted by: ACLU at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (ymnmz)

217 @184

Could be a flypaper trap to see who on the inside is leaking to these POS.


Could also be that this sort of thing has never really been done and nobody knows the process.


Cause you know that everything in Washington has a Rube Goldbergian process to do even the most generic things, so it stands to reason that the process to strip clearances without an EO is immense.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (UfMVm)

218 Oh lol my bad. I just saw the last name. Who the hell is that even?

Posted by: Mr Pink at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (ZbsqP)

219 Let me ask a simple question--OT, but I just saw something on FOX where Susan Rice is bent out of shape about Trump/Putin private meeting. Why are they still so bent out of shape about that?

What do they think Trump said? Or what do they think he heard?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (y8Foj)

220
I have no idea who James Brennan is.


Posted by: WisRich at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (G0vdT)


He's no Walter Brennan

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (10vO4)

221 201 Drudge headlines: Cohen gives Feds 12 recordings.
Is this even legal? Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM

Doesn't make any bit of difference as none of that stuff will ever see the inside of a courtroom let alone an actual trial where they can be challenged.

It's all there for the leak value. I expect them to be leaked by the fbi by Friday.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 23, 2018 04:04 PM (+Dllb)

Just proof Cohen is an idiot. if he'd kept his mouth shut Trump probably would have pardoned him for any transgressions - but now I suspect Cohen will be left swinging in the wind, and couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Posted by: West at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (7Fa8Y)

222 183 Why was Brennan granted immunity in the Manifort case?

Posted by: Mr Pink at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (ZbsqP)

Seems to be some confusion on that. It says 'James Brennan' not John.

I still don't know who James Brennan is.

Posted by: Tami at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (Enq6K)

223 fresh meat for the corgis.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (UsCnO)

224 But if my access to all the systems was revoked, and when I leave the navy it would be, my security clearance might still be valid but useless
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (Lg2h/)

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Thanks. So, as wrg500 said upthread, this is to send a message?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (AzW6q)

225 Tok's scare the plinkers at the range.... sound of a howitzer... shoots fire from the muzzle... good times...

Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2018 04:07 PM (DpEis)

226 But just letting clearances hang out there indefinitely? Nope.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls

They don't hang indefinitely. They have a giving time frame and require reinvestigation or re-polygraphed or both. You don't get one for life.

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:07 PM (Bdeb0)

227 Why are so many on "our" side so willing to go to the ends of the earth to give cover to Obama's minions?

Posted by: Jolly Roger at July 23, 2018 04:07 PM (UfkIY)

228 >>He's trying the same shit with Candace Owens.


Shapiro wants the guy who determines and enforces the new rules for the non-progressive side. He'll decide which media outlets should be given interviews, which people should lose their jobs for bad speech, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2018 04:07 PM (W+vEI)

229 Let me ask a simple question--OT, but I just saw
something on FOX where Susan Rice is bent out of shape about Trump/Putin
private meeting. Why are they still so bent out of shape about that?

What do they think Trump said? Or what do they think he heard?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (y8Foj)


Susan is probably afraid Puting told PDT just how "flexible" Barry was willing to be.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 23, 2018 04:07 PM (ptqGC)

230 33 19 You can count me in with those who think security clearances ought to be terminated when employment is terminated. Makes no sense for them to retain a clearance afterward, unless going to another job that requires it.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 23, 2018 03:42 PM (FCAbp)


I seem to remember my clearance being downgraded significantly when I retired from the Navy... it was part of a Exit interview at my final command.

Posted by: Don Q at July 23, 2018 03:44 PM (NgKpN)


They straight-up suspended mine. That's standard policy. I guess some folks are just more equal than others.

Now, it was easy to reactivate, as long as my next job required it and my BI was still valid.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 23, 2018 04:08 PM (cvabZ)

231 219 Let me ask a simple question--OT, but I just saw something on FOX where Susan Rice is bent out of shape about Trump/Putin private meeting. Why are they still so bent out of shape about that?

What do they think Trump said? Or what do they think he heard?
Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (y8Foj)

They're all worried that Putin will tell Trump about all the times they were begging him to help them take down Trump.

Posted by: West at July 23, 2018 04:08 PM (7Fa8Y)

232 You really think any of these folks get polygraphed. They don't.

Posted by: ejochs at July 23, 2018 04:08 PM (3+0tg)

233 Drudge headlines: Cohen gives Feds 12 recordings.
Is this even legal? Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?

That is not what happened..They were seized when the feds raided his office and home. They were being contested as client-lawyer privilege. Apparently both cohen and PDT dropped their objections to the release to the prosecutors. I "Assume" that is because there is not much there

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:08 PM (Lg2h/)

234 Okay, it's not a gun thread... back on topic...

Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2018 04:09 PM (DpEis)

235 224 But if my access to all the systems was revoked, and when I leave the navy it would be, my security clearance might still be valid but useless
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (Lg2h/)

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Thanks. So, as wrg500 said upthread, this is to send a message?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I see this as Trump raising in a game of high stakes poker.

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:09 PM (Bdeb0)

236 But just letting clearances hang out there indefinitely? Nope.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls



They don't hang indefinitely. They have a giving time frame and
require reinvestigation or re-polygraphed or both. You don't get one for
life.


Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:07 PM

---

Unless something has changed since I had mine a Secret clearance background check is good for 10 years. A TS clearance background check is only good for five years.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 23, 2018 04:09 PM (+Dllb)

237
What do they think Trump said? Or what do they think he heard?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (y8Foj)

Susan is probably afraid Puting told PDT just how "flexible" Barry was willing to be.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 23, 2018 04:07 PM (ptqGC)

But how would this help Putin?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:09 PM (y8Foj)

238 Since Cohen is being squeezed over Taxi Tokens I'd guess James Brennen is in the taxi business or NY government.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 23, 2018 04:09 PM (2LelM)

239 Thanks. So, as wrg500 said upthread, this is to send a message?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (AzW6q)

Yes and it can screw them some in some civilian jobs and also if they try to re-enter gov service

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (Lg2h/)

240 They keep their clearances after leaving the government because it's DC. With the clearance, they can see their "access" as consultants and lobbyists.

So the system allows them to keep it as part of an "old boys network" of scratching each other's backs.

Some high level people keep it to write Memoirs, or to consult on special cases, or maybe just to advise.

Or maybe they get a gig on CNN, and they need to call and find out the dope before they talk about a certain subject just not to say anything inappropriate. That is considered "need to know" in DC.

They are the elite. We should be thankful they don't force us to avert our eyes when they are seen in public.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (LWu6U)

241 201 Drudge headlines: Cohen gives Feds 12 recordings. Is this even legal? Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite

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Doesn't make any bit of difference as none of that stuff will ever see the inside of a courtroom let alone an actual trial where they can be challenged.

It's all there for the leak value. I expect them to be leaked by the fbi by Friday.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman
---------
Dredge huh.. nope, don't care but double-especially don't care if dredge has it - nothing but click-bait for a long while now.

Let me guess - anonymous sources say right?

At this point, the press could videotape PDJFT robbing a Mickey D's over all their diet cokes video and I still wouldn't believe it.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (mfjYD)

242 *sell

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (LWu6U)

243 209 Why is trump "looking into" revoking. How about active voice. "I have revoked their clearance".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
=======
Because I want to control the narrative for the rest of the week.
Posted by: Stray voltage My Uncle taught me all about it when he went through Tesla's papers at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (vyZ0y)

I was thinking that too. Does it divert their attention from the Iran tweet? I haven't had time to check it out, but I figured that's what they've been melting down about today.

Also, they may want to see what happens now inside the White House...who scrambles to get what info from whom knowing they may now lose security clearance.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (HwGIC)

244 HANNITY THREATENING TO SUE BRENNAN INTO THE GROUND IF HE WAS WIRETAPPED

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (y3aQB)

245 Unless something has changed since I had mine a Secret clearance background check is good for 10 years.

It is being downgraded to 7 years

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (Lg2h/)

246 Why was Brennan granted immunity in the Manifort case?

So he can lie through his teeth.
========
No. He can not. You don't get immunity for perjuring yourself in the case at issue. Its for past crimes, so as to prevent you from taking the fifth. So you have to testify. Its going to be very interesting indeed, because he's going to get cross examined and put on the record not by congressmen/dentists but by actual sharks.

Not sure how he's associated with Manafort however. Strange. Very strange.

Posted by: simplemind at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (iZocF)

247 Alas! All those lucrative consulting gigs and jobs in the legendary military-industrial complex lost due to lack of a security clearance. And those speaking engagements lose some of their luster when the speaker only has access to the same stuff the audience does.

Posted by: timactual at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (sS4nt)

248 232 You really think any of these folks get polygraphed. They don't.
Posted by: ejochs

I know Brennan was when he first join CIA in 1980. He said he was afraid he would fail.

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (Bdeb0)

249 Drudge ... that's a website, right??

Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (DpEis)

250 Well Ben, there is no reason for them to have clearance.. and if their friends "leak" stuff to them, this makes it a bit of a crime.

You are either against leaks to these hacks, or your not.

Time to clean up this mess, this is a step.

Posted by: reality man at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (xOBRH)

251 239 Thanks. So, as wrg500 said upthread, this is to send a message?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (AzW6q)

Yes and it can screw them some in some civilian jobs and also if they try to re-enter gov service
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (Lg2h/)



Which for these assholes isn't going to be a problem. Media and whatever think tank or foundation they slink off to aren't going to give a damn about them losing security clearance.

Posted by: buzzion at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (lKs2v)

252 193
Drudge headlines: Cohen gives Feds 12 recordings.

Is this even legal? Whatever happened to client attorney privilege?

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:01 PM (a0IVu)



That's selectively applied these days....

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (y8Foj)


Hellooooooo????

Yooooo called?

Posted by: Cheryl Mills and Hillary Clinton at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (ymnmz)

253 HANNITY THREATENING TO SUE BRENNAN INTO THE GROUND IF HE WAS WIRETAPPED
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (y3aQB)
GatewayPundit, right?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:12 PM (y8Foj)

254 >>Susan is probably afraid Puting told PDT just how "flexible" Barry was willing to be.


Also: Iran.

Trump Lobbied Putin to side with the US and other countries in supporting sanctions, and cutting off other support, such as in Syria.

Iran is so very important to these Obama people, they invested a lot in making the "deal" happen and don't want it to unravel.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 23, 2018 04:12 PM (W+vEI)

255 Yes and it can screw them some in some civilian jobs

-----

I could see that... I wouldn't want to hire someone who had that happen.

But, I don't think it'll make much of an impact on K-Street or in the media jobs they'll be pursuing. Too bad.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 23, 2018 04:12 PM (AzW6q)

256 249
Drudge ... that's a website, right??

Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (DpEis)
Yeah; and somewhat useless and full of click bait crap

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:12 PM (a0IVu)

257 Unless something has changed since I had mine a Secret clearance background check is good for 10 years. A TS clearance background check is only good for five years.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

Yep, and poly less

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:12 PM (Bdeb0)

258 nood stormy

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 23, 2018 04:13 PM (a0IVu)

259 Man, they really overpaid those CNN hires if they are now losing clearance. lol At least that is what I imagine the CEO is thinking. Let's face it, that's why they were hired.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 04:13 PM (HwGIC)

260 The real question is why do these guys still have security clearances? I understand there's temporary courtesy to brief their successors, but years on?

Posted by: Iblis at July 23, 2018 04:13 PM (9221z)

261 231 219 Let me ask a simple question--OT, but I just saw something on FOX where Susan Rice is bent out of shape about Trump/Putin private meeting. Why are they still so bent out of shape about that?

What do they think Trump said? Or what do they think he heard?
Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:06 PM (y8Foj)

They're all worried that Putin will tell Trump about all the times they were begging him to help them take down Trump.
Posted by: West at July 23, 2018 04:08 PM (7Fa8Y)

There arw reports that Putin gave over 150 terabytes of Intel to Trump conserning the Deep State criminals and activities and has offered his intel services to Trump to go after the Global Cabal/Deep State.

Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 23, 2018 04:13 PM (ue+Wr)

262 If you have a clearance and leave the job the clearance still exists based on its length. If you get hired somewhere else, they can reactivate the clearance. If it has been revoked, they would have to sponsor you for a new clearance and there will be questions on why your clearance was revoked. Most employers will waive on you at that moment. For a Rice or Clapper certain employers will go the sponsorship route just cuz of who these people know. It doesn't guarantee the clearance will be reinstated.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 23, 2018 04:13 PM (2LelM)

263
But if my access to all the systems was revoked, and when I leave the navy it would be, my security clearance might still be valid but useless Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:03 PM (Lg2h/)


No offense intended but your clearance isn't exactly the same as the ex CIA chief.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 23, 2018 04:13 PM (10vO4)

264 Posted by: simplemind at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (iZocF)
=======
James Brennan, NOT John

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at July 23, 2018 04:14 PM (y3aQB)

265 No offense intended but your clearance isn't exactly the same as the ex CIA chief.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 23, 2018 04:13 PM (10vO4)

Of course not, but the process and rules are the same.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:14 PM (Lg2h/)

266 Shut the fuck up Hannity.


It's this asinine, Russia is a mortal enemy 11Eleventy!!!


That's allowed this Russia Collusion farce to continue.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 23, 2018 04:14 PM (UfMVm)

267 Which for these assholes isn't going to be a problem. Media and whatever think tank or foundation they slink off to aren't going to give a damn about them losing security clearance.
Posted by: buzzion

In their field of "expertise" a think tank wouldn't touch them without a clearance

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:14 PM (Bdeb0)

268 243
209 Why is trump "looking into" revoking. How about active voice. "I have revoked their clearance".



Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

=======

Because I want to control the narrative for the rest of the week.

Posted by: Stray voltage My Uncle taught me all about it when he went through Tesla's papers at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (vyZ0y)



I was thinking that too. Does it divert their attention from the
Iran tweet? I haven't had time to check it out, but I figured that's
what they've been melting down about today.



Also, they may want to see what happens now inside the White
House...who scrambles to get what info from whom knowing they may now
lose security clearance.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (HwGIC)


How many of those stupid leaky dumbasses are wondering if there is a boatload of planted disinformation slipped into their information stream?


LOL None I bet. Bring me my colander!!!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 23, 2018 04:15 PM (ymnmz)

269 Need to know is the key. That determines your clearance level, not the other way around. No need to know, no access.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at July 23, 2018 04:15 PM (l7Kbv)

270 Posted by: JoeF. at July 23, 2018 04:12 PM (y8Foj)
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Nope from another site & my guess is he said that on his Radio show

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at July 23, 2018 04:15 PM (y3aQB)

271
There arw reports that Putin gave over 150 terabytes of Intel to Trump conserning the Deep State criminals and activities and has offered his intel services to Trump to go after the Global Cabal/Deep State.

Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio
========
theres a lot of weird sh!+ on the chans, I wouldn't call them reports.

You see it was all in the soccer ball!! It was chipped!!

Posted by: simplemind at July 23, 2018 04:15 PM (sElz7)

272 267
Which for these assholes isn't going to be a problem. Media and whatever
think tank or foundation they slink off to aren't going to give a damn
about them losing security clearance.

Posted by: buzzion



In their field of "expertise" a think tank wouldn't touch them without a clearance

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:14 PM (Bdeb0)


Ding

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 23, 2018 04:15 PM (ymnmz)

273 Lil' Bennie's cuck mentor Frenchie just wrote a denial over at NRO that he's not now, nor has he ever been, a hypocrite for demanding Roseanne be fired and later denouncing James Gunn's dismissal. It's another new low in several years of lows at NR and an astonishing read.

Posted by: Inspector Robert Mueller at July 23, 2018 04:15 PM (O6j88)

274 No offense intended but your clearance isn't exactly the same as the ex CIA chief.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic

It is mine minus a few compartments.

Posted by: wrg500 at July 23, 2018 04:15 PM (Bdeb0)

275
it was snark, simplemind.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 23, 2018 04:16 PM (r+sAi)

276 271


There arw reports that Putin gave over 150 terabytes of Intel to
Trump conserning the Deep State criminals and activities and has offered
his intel services to Trump to go after the Global Cabal/Deep State.



Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio

========

theres a lot of weird sh!+ on the chans, I wouldn't call them reports.



You see it was all in the soccer ball!! It was chipped!!

Posted by: simplemind at July 23, 2018 04:15 PM (sElz7)


The soccer ball was the key to the decryption program. And he gave it to PDT right in front of reporters.

YEAAAARGGHHHH!!!!!!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 23, 2018 04:17 PM (ymnmz)

277 Found this at Wiki...no idea if it's the same James Brennan:

James F. Brennan (born April 17, 1952) is an American politician. He is a former member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 44th Assembly District (Brooklyn).[1] He is a Democrat and also represents the Working Families Party.[2]

Posted by: Tami at July 23, 2018 04:17 PM (Enq6K)

278 nood

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 23, 2018 04:17 PM (LWu6U)

279 Not really. Yes he probably still had a security clearance but someone allowed him access. which was a mistake
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 23, 2018 04:05 PM (Lg2h/)

It was my understanding he was allowed continued access specifically because he still had the security clearance . Though I'm sure they would have reinstated it temporarily to allow him to review the papers if he had not retained it.

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at July 23, 2018 04:17 PM (V+jJS)

280 Posted by: simplemind at July 23, 2018 04:11 PM (iZocF)
=======
James Brennan, NOT John

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy
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In that case: NEVER MIND

Posted by: simplemind at July 23, 2018 04:17 PM (xrdip)

281 Hannity just said that Brennan had Hannity's identity unmasked. Once this is confirmed Hannity is going to sue the Hell out of EVERYONE.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 23, 2018 04:19 PM (dDMQ9)

282 Revoking clearances may impact their revolving door sinecure salaries! It's their right to cash in! AND! Promote sedition! What will be the point of working for the feds?

Posted by: Lester at July 23, 2018 04:21 PM (LfJIn)

283 Lil' Bennie's cuck mentor Frenchie just wrote a denial over at NRO that he's not now, nor has he ever been, a hypocrite for demanding Roseanne be fired and later denouncing James Gunn's dismissal. It's another new low in several years of lows at NR and an astonishing read.
Posted by: Inspector Robert Mueller at July 23, 2018 04:15 PM (O6j8


Between the two, Gunn's was way more egregious. Also, pointed to a level of stupidity that he never deleted them. If he no longer believed it, why leave them out there...the tweets.

Also, if you work for Disney, not HBO, you have gotta know you are gonna be held to a different standard. I think both of them were connected to Disney. That Gunn guy though...I think there is a real sicko inside him somewhere. Roseanne has always been unhinged.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at July 23, 2018 04:22 PM (HwGIC)

284 >>>Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 23, 2018 04:10 PM (LWu6U)

Ok, in other words, all bullshit reasons. The only legit reason I could think of is if they needed to be consulted on something in the future. But then, their clearance could just be revoked and restored when needed. But in the case of these clowns, they are hostile to American interests. There's no reason why this administration would consult with them.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 23, 2018 04:25 PM (/qEW2)

285 the problem is they were monetizing their clearance. We paid for it. It is not their to monetize. telling anyone (while you are on CNN/MSNBC/whatever) that this is what you think and I have a clearance is "monetizing"
on 45s ability to revoke. all US clearances are based upon authority of "the president" so yes, he can take away what he gave.

Posted by: TANSTAASFL at July 23, 2018 04:31 PM (Wa5hI)

286 This is what is known as a harbinger.

Posted by: Orson at July 23, 2018 04:39 PM (pefct)

287 If there is no need to know, there should be no clearance.

As soon as these people left government employment, there was no longer any need for them to know anything, therefore security clearances should have been terminated at that time.

Security clearance is not a perq. It is not something that belongs to the holder. It is a tool the government uses to control information. The fewer clearances out there, the simpler the process of controlling information. Clearances should terminated on the last day of employment as a matter of routine.

Posted by: Gridlock at July 23, 2018 04:44 PM (JCOL5)

288 Talk is cheap, just do it

Posted by: Not Nike at July 23, 2018 04:55 PM (EATOD)

289 Clapper you are goldang straight that Trump can pull your security clearance. He's got the authority to do that. What he can't do, that I wish he could, is put a sock in your yap so you and your buddies stop blabbing. These guys have proven that they don't have the interests of the US at heart, and the security door ought to be slammed in their face ASAP. With maybe a cell door slammed in their face a little bit later.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 23, 2018 07:30 PM (Sda6L)

290 Why would NON-EMPLOYEES of the government keep their security clearance when they don't need to know?


There are umptimillion advisory panels in the government for these refugees to squat in between Administrations that require a security clearance to join.
Loosing your security clearance is a "death sentence " in DC

Posted by: SMOD at July 23, 2018 07:59 PM (e8kgV)

291 ben shapiro = globalist psychopath wannabee controlled op FAKE NEWS Never Trumper CLOWN liberal thug puppet

simple as that!

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Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
News/Chat