Donald J. Trump is annoyed that half a dozen of our best and brightest experts in intelligence and national security take issue with his statements. His solution: Take away their security clearances.
Dumb!
The reason that former officials sometimes retain clearances to access classified information is for the convenience of the government (so they can be consulted), not for the profit of the former official. This is another case of psychological transference - that is, when a person of limited imagination attributes a motive to someone else because "that is what I would want to do."
John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, James Comey, Michael Hayden and Andrew McCabe committed the offense of speaking the truth as they see it.
I have news for the president: there is no clearance for facts.
For many years I read Pravda and Izvestia to see what the Soviets were telling each other. Some of what they were saying were facts. Some weren't. I got to be pretty good at telling the difference. I can still tell the difference, and so can the targeted officials.
Even without a security clearance.
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