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2018-07-26 -Lurid Crime Tales-
NBC Reporter: Trump Will Cause ‘Financial’ Harm to Clapper, Brennan by Revoking Security Clearances
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Posted by Fred 2018-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Will the idea that they're not supposed to use these clearances for financial gain be mentioned by anybody?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-26 00:13||   2018-07-26 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 What is the color of the sky on Planet Dilanian? Security Clearances™ are a privilege that the government conditionally extends at the government's convenience. They aren't your personal property.
Posted by magpie 2018-07-26 00:21||   2018-07-26 00:21|| Front Page Top

#3 The fact that someone could make financial gain out of the security clearance should be reason enough to revoke it. It's not a money making dodge for crying out loud.
Posted by ruprecht 2018-07-26 00:33||   2018-07-26 00:33|| Front Page Top

#4 It's right up there with CNN's headlines yesterday that the Iridium 7 launch was a failure because SpaceX didn't recover intact pristine fairings. Nobody has ever recovered intact pristine fairings and only SpaceX has tried to do so. Current mass media appears to be biased and illiterate.
Posted by 3dc 2018-07-26 06:18||   2018-07-26 06:18|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm excited about the "financial harm" it will cause CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, etc.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-26 06:56||   2018-07-26 06:56|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Jack Chaiter7913 2018-07-26 07:11||   2018-07-26 07:11|| Front Page Top

#7 NBCNews reporter Ken Dilanian suggested Monday that President Donald Trump would hurt the livelihoods of Obama administration alumni by taking away the “valuable commodity” of their security clearances.

The writer is mistaken. No, it's not Trump. It's a cabal of Deep State leftists from the previous administration (and a few Rinos) who did it to themselves with their plot to take down a duly-elected POTUS elected to clean up the mess that's been festering. They have lied, schemed, committed crimes, obstructed justice, covered-up and been seditious and treasonous.

His argument is like the bank robber blaming the bank for their clerk getting shot in his hold-up. Specious.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-26 08:40||   2018-07-26 08:40|| Front Page Top

#8 "valuable commodity"

WTF?

Are they selling or renting out their security clearances?
Posted by CrazyFool 2018-07-26 09:28||   2018-07-26 09:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Many of these erudite, cogent comments flashed through my nimble brain whilst reading the headline.

But to answer Crazy Fool's inquiry, I'd say they are prostituting their clearances.
Posted by Bobby 2018-07-26 09:43||   2018-07-26 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Lots of angry hype here. When you get a security clearance, you get it for a number of years. The clearance is you getting it, not the job getting it. Once you retire, it is supposed to go inactive. It stays in that mode until you get into a position or job that requires the clearance. Then they assign it to a position that aligns with the requirement and your clearance is reinstated. You cant just walk into a classified meeting because you have clearance, it requires proof of need to know and approval. So this removing clearances is all just hype. What they need to do is insure only active employees' clearances are being managed by the CIA, then they would have to have him on the rolls and he would fall under all the ethics rules of the agency. There should only be one clearance at the level of director of the CIA, the rest should be downgraded and placed in the inactive category...
Posted by 49 Pan 2018-07-26 10:44||   2018-07-26 10:44|| Front Page Top

#11 
Posted by 3dc 2018-07-26 10:46||   2018-07-26 10:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Sort of like BLM permits to dig, log or drill. The government had no problem pulling those in the previous administrations even though it caused 'financial' harm.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-26 10:46||   2018-07-26 10:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Just think of the financial harm these treasonous bastards will suffer when they're locked up in a super max.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-07-26 11:49||   2018-07-26 11:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Once you retire, it is supposed to go inactive... So this removing clearances is all just hype.
I think you miss the point of why clearances should even continue after the holder loses his job (for whatever reason, not just retirement). That part makes zero sense and never has. And it is not "just hype". But I guess there is also the excuse "We've always done it this way."
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-26 11:51||   2018-07-26 11:51|| Front Page Top

#15 Ken Dilanian, a reporter Browder believes to be a regular and reliable purveyor of Fusion GPS-manufactured talking points
Posted by Frank G 2018-07-26 12:21||   2018-07-26 12:21|| Front Page Top

#16 And what about the financial harm to Mueller's innocent victims?
Posted by gorb 2018-07-26 16:09||   2018-07-26 16:09|| Front Page Top

#17 49Pan took a shortcut in his comment.

Clearances go inactive when a holder no longer has a job that requires one or a need to know, depending on the level and type of clearance. This is especially true WRT being read into compartmented intel info, but is more broadly true of all clearances.

But all clearances are predicated on background investigations of several types - and those do expire. Once a BI expires, no clearances are authorized until and unless a sponsoring government agency authorizes and funds an updated investigation.
Posted by Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-07-26 16:17||   2018-07-26 16:17|| Front Page Top

#18 Maybe Trump wants to do them harm. After all they have tried to do great harm to him and to us. It's his way of saying FU very much.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-26 17:01||   2018-07-26 17:01|| Front Page Top

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