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Home Front: Politix
Rand Paul: Deep State Ignored Order to Pull John Brennan's Security Clearance
2019-06-06
[Breitbart] Appearing Tuesday on CNN, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the intelligence community over a recent report claiming it defied an order from President Donald Trump to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.

A partial transcript is as follows:
HOST BRIANNA KEILAR: I want to ask you, because you’ve been really a critic of John Brennan, who has been a critic of President Trump. You’ve not been a big fan of him. You’ve said that. He’s the former CIA director under President Obama. What do you think about this recent New York Times story that Brennan still has his security clearance? This was such a big, I guess, promise of the president’s, demand of the president. He said he was going to pull it, and he still has it.

SEN. RAND PAUL: Well, this is what worries me. People talk about the Deep State. Now the Deep State is actually protecting their own and not listening to the president’s orders. I was sitting in the White House when President Trump said, "I want his security clearance taken," and I saw the order given. I saw the chief of staff was there, not the current chief of staff, the previous chief of staff.

And if they’re working against the odds of the president, that really does disrupt our country, does disrupt a representative democracy where the president makes a decision, and if someone is countermanding that, I think we need to get to the bottom of that. And I hope President Trump will say, "who is countermanding my orders. I said get rid of his clearance." And I do think Brennan has been a partisan. And I think Brennan also abused his office in developing the Trump investigation. I think it was done under false pretenses and done for political reasons.

Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Time to sack whatever DS slime is slow-walking this.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-06-06 09:58  

#4  Trump needs to start another organisation. These deep state self-servers are untrustworthy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-06-06 06:18  

#3  Brennan got so used to spilling secrets anytime he liked that he did it on TV. It simply escaped him that that was something he couldn't do.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-06-06 01:49  

#2  These people must be made accountable - and punished.
Posted by: Elmomomble Crusosing2364   2019-06-06 00:41  

#1  Assuming the Agency held Brennan's clearance, it would be the responsibility of the Special Security Officer (SSO) of the Agency to suspend or revoke Brennan's clearance.

Rank Paul is very likely correct. The "Deep State Ignored the order".
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-06-06 00:08  

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