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orleans

(36,668 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:52 PM Mar 2025

orange shit pulls security clearance of harris & clinton & others



BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday took away security clearances for former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others in his latest move against his Democratic opponents.

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The memorandum was issued hours after Trump arrived at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf property for the weekend.

Trump also targeted Republican former Representative Liz Cheney, a sharp Trump critic, former Biden White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Fiona Hill, a Russia expert who served on his National Security Council during his first term.

Mark Zaid, a national security lawyer in Washington who represents whistleblowers, and Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican lawmaker who is a sharp Trump critic, were among several others who had their security clearances revoked.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pulls-security-clearances-kamala-harris-hillary-clinton-2025-03-22/




JUST IN: Trump pulls security clearances of more political/legal adversaries — some of these were previously known but new list includes:

-Kamala Harris
-Liz Cheney
-Joe Biden + Biden family
-Fiona Hill

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-kyle cheney on bsky

JUST IN: Trump pulls security clearances of more political/legal adversaries — some of these were previously known but new list includes:

-Kamala Harris
-Liz Cheney
-Joe Biden + Biden family
-Fiona Hill

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-03-22T01:56:31.894Z




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orange shit pulls security clearance of harris & clinton & others (Original Post) orleans Mar 2025 OP
Sicko. SheltieLover Mar 2025 #1
Pulling security details. socialist.democrat Mar 2025 #2
It is illegal to pull a former President's Secret Service protection per the Former Presidents Act signed kelly1mm Mar 2025 #8
Although trump deserved it, Biden did the same. NPR tonight said: Silent Type Mar 2025 #3
maybe including the biden family is new today orleans Mar 2025 #5
Putin surely still has his, even though informal. Norrrm Mar 2025 #4
This needs to be on the home page! FirstLight Mar 2025 #6
Who cares? Mountainguy Mar 2025 #7
2. Pulling security details.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:06 PM
Mar 2025

Well, once again the Repugs have beat us to what WE SHOULD HAVE DONE when dump was out there and lying and defying contempts of court. We should have yanked his security detail, saving the taxpayers tons of money. Now, we turns around and does an act to harm innocent people. HE however, was a convicted FELON and under indictments in Georgia. He deserved to lose his security detail. I am sick of the Dems never haivng the EFFING GUTS to do what needs to be done. They must come out of the smoke and understand our current political scene, and stop being n ice, polite, accommodating and pretending that any of this is remotely normal. I am so pissed. I saw a flag recently at a protest: it had We The People (in the font of the Constitution) are pissed.

 

kelly1mm

(5,756 posts)
8. It is illegal to pull a former President's Secret Service protection per the Former Presidents Act signed
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 11:48 PM
Mar 2025

by President Obama in 2013.

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
3. Although trump deserved it, Biden did the same. NPR tonight said:
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:07 PM
Mar 2025

“The question of who should have access to the nation's secrets is one of the utmost importance. In the past two presidential terms, that question has been aimed at former presidents themselves.

“In 2021, then-President Biden barred then-former President Donald Trump access to intelligence briefings, arguing that Trump could not be trusted because of his "erratic behavior."

“More specifically, Trump said he would immediately revoke Biden's "security clearances," though in reality, Biden did not have a security clearance to begin with.”

orleans

(36,668 posts)
5. maybe including the biden family is new today
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 11:24 PM
Mar 2025

(who in the family other than joe would get the security clearance? )

and, i didn't see *bill* clinton's name on the list -- just hillary. so if bill gets the intel briefings i guess she could read over his shoulder

Norrrm

(3,986 posts)
4. Putin surely still has his, even though informal.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 11:19 PM
Mar 2025

Jared considered his security clearance to be a license to sell our country's secrets.

FirstLight

(15,770 posts)
6. This needs to be on the home page!
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 11:42 PM
Mar 2025

I just saw it on my news feed and came here to see if it was posted. This weas the first thread I am seeing... Is it in LBN??

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