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LaSalleAve said: ↑

Why is right only right when it’s a repub doing it and wrong only wrong when a democrat does it?
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I cant remember the time a Democrat tried to take someones clearance over leaks? Can you?

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LSUpride123 said: ↑

I cant remember the time a Democrat tried to take someones clearance over leaks? Can you?
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I’m glad that’s what you think this is about.

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I see the admiral and Winston need more vagisil

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White House Orders Massive Review of Security Clearances
5 million people are currently cleared to see classified information

By Denver Nicks @DenverNicksNov. 21, 2013

http://swampland.time.com/2013/11/21/white-house-orders-massive-review-of-security-clearances/

The Obama administration has ordered a reassessment of the government’s process for granting security clearances and a top-to-bottom review of each of the nearly five million people who are currently authorized to see classified information in the United States.

In a memo dated Oct. 31, and cited at a Senate hearing Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper raised his concerns about the some 4.9 million security clearances currently active in the U.S., including 1.4 million “Top Secret” clearances, Politico reports. Clapper requested that heads of government agencies “conduct a comprehensive review validating that each government employee or contractor who has been granted a security clearance continues to require such eligibility for access to classified national security information in support of their current position or your agency’s mission.”

The directive did not come with a deadline, though an aide to Clapper told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs subcommittee that agencies have until the end of January to complete their reviews.

Concerns have grown in recent years about the ballooning number of security clearances in the United States — as well as the increasing amount of information that is classified — in the wake of large-scale leaks of state secrets like those perpetrated by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. The cost of maintaining such a large stable of security clearances, estimated to be roughly $1 billion a year, is also of growing concern. Until a 2010 Washington Post investigation into the growing national security state, it was unknown how many security clearances were actually in existence.

“This review is long overdue,” Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy with the Federation of American Scientists, told TIME. “The security clearance system, like the classification system, has become bloated and inefficient. The goal should be to reduce secrecy and security clearances to the bare minimum. A lean and streamlined clearance system will also be more effective and affordable.”
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Yet he made sure his son in law got one even after he was rejected for non disclosure of critical information and other risks.
I’m all for making sure of those who hold deserve them and have a use....but in this case it seems much more pettiness than reasoned.

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Just so you know, Tim Kaine (D-VA) is on the TV right now. Those bulging eyeballs are scary, and to think that whacko could have been Vice President!

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LSUpride123 said: ↑

Nothing petty about it. Dudes are lucky they aren't in jail for leaking classified information.
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What? Think what you just wrote. These guys have pissed the vindictive Trump off. Are you implying given this animosity, Trump has taken a pass on prosecuting them for unauthorized disclosure of classified material. Just does not pass the logic test.

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HalloweenRun said: ↑

What? Think what you just wrote. These guys have pissed the vindictive Trump off. Are you implying given this animosity, Trump has taken a pass on prosecuting them for unauthorized disclosure of classified material. Just does not pass the logic test.
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Logic? Like the logic of "not my president" and leaking classified information to the press?

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HalloweenRun said: ↑

What? Think what you just wrote. These guys have pissed the vindictive Trump off. Are you implying given this animosity, Trump has taken a pass on prosecuting them for unauthorized disclosure of classified material. Just does not pass the logic test.
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Any sane person knows what’s going on here.

LaSalleAve, Jul 25, 2018

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LaSalleAve said: ↑

Any sane person knows what’s going on here.
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That means you have absolutely no idea. None

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