W.H. looks to scrub clearance list

[Dashinka 24,756]

Before anyone is confused, this is from 2013 and the previous administration.

 

By JOSH GERSTEIN

11/21/2013 08:48 AM EST

 

The Obama administration has ordered a government-wide reassessment of how almost 5 million Americans have been granted classified information security clearances and whether each person currently approved to see sensitive national security secrets truly has a need for such access.

Reeling from National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s leaks of top-secret surveillance programs and mentally computer contractor Aaron Alexis’s deadly shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, the intelligence community is coming to the conclusion that the sheer number of personnel with clearances is making the government and the country as a whole vulnerable to a slew of dangers.

In a directive obtained by POLITICO, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper questioned the booming rolls of security-clearance holders. At last count, more than 4.9 million people held clearances, of whom over 1.4 million were cleared for access at the “Top Secret” level.

“I write to express my concern about threats to national security resulting from the increasing number of people with eligibility for access to classified national security information, particularly Top Secret (TS) and Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI),” Clapper wrote in a three-page memo, dated Oct. 31 and cited at a Senate hearing Wednesday.

Clapper asked agencies to perform a top-to-bottom scrub of the teeming rolls of people authorized to access classified information and to remove anyone deemed not to have a so-called need to know.

The memo itself does not set a deadline for the government-wide clearance review, but an aide to Clapper told a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs subcommittee that agencies have until the end of January to complete the process.

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/government-security-clearance-list-100195

[jg121783 3,921]

So Obama was anti first amendment then?

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

31 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

So Obama was anti first amendment then?

Of course not, in his case Obama only cared about national security, just because they do the same thing doesn't mean anything to anybody

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

1 hour ago, jg121783 said:

So Obama was anti first amendment then?

That's racist.  How dare you? Report yourself, I'm busy...

[TBoneTX 46,041]

This list-scrubbing should occur on a regular or at least a periodic basis.

[Dashinka 24,756]

2 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

This list-scrubbing should occur on a regular or at least a periodic basis.

Definitely.

[jg121783 3,921]

High level people should be treated the same as anyone else with a security clearance. The minute they leave the position the clearance is required for it should be removed.

[smilesammich 10,727]

For some reason, Michael Flynn apparently still has his security clearance

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President Trump has a list of current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials he's apparently excited to strip of their security clearances, all of them critics of his actions and all of them, not coincidentally, involved in the investigation of Russian election tampering and possible collusion by the Trump campaign. Not on the list is his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who has pleaded guilty to federal charges of lying to investigators and is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia investigation. Yes, Flynn, it appears, still has his security clearance.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is among those who doesn't think that's a great idea. "I've always liked Gen. Flynn but he's now pleaded guilty to a federal offense," he told reporters on Thursday. "I think he should lose his security clearance." 

 

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

5 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

For some reason, Michael Flynn apparently still has his security clearance

 

I do not think anyone here is defending people without need to access to have security clearances, as most comments I have seen here are supportive of scrubbing the roles of clearance holders that no longer serve in any official capacity

[smilesammich 10,727]

2 minutes ago, Randyandyuni said:

I do not think anyone here is defending people without need to access to have security clearances, as most comments I have seen here are supportive of scrubbing the roles of clearance holders that no longer serve in any official capacity

odd who trump is hyperfocused on, aint it.

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

24 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

odd who trump is hyperfocused on, aint it.

read the comments, and last I knew Trump wasn't commenting on here

[smilesammich 10,727]

10 minutes ago, Randyandyuni said:

read the comments, and last I knew Trump wasn't commenting on here

read the title of the op. wh = trump.

just because it's inconvenient for you to acknowledge trump's actions and comments on security clearances and who they should be taken from, doesn't mean other people can't talk about it.

[Dashinka 24,756]

19 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

read the title of the op. wh = trump.

just because it's inconvenient for you to acknowledge trump's actions and comments on security clearances and who they should be taken from, doesn't mean other people can't talk about it.

I thought I made it clear in my op, this was a story from 2013 so back then WH = Obama.

 

 

[smilesammich 10,727]

3 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I thought I made it clear in my op, this was a story from 2013 so back then WH = Obama.

 

 

who is currently in the white house, taking security clearances away from his critics? or did you think obama was still in office.

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

1 minute ago, Bill & Katya said:

I thought I made it clear in my op, this was a story from 2013 so back then WH = Obama.

 

 

that just makes it an inconvenient truth for the their dialogue, as far as what's inconvenient for me, thank you for your concern .... BTW .. other than including Trump in the discussion you are agreeing, makes your head explode eh?