The 51 former intelligence officials who suggested Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation could lose their security clearances, Republican lawmakers indicated this week.
The FBI agent leading the investigation of the second attempt on President Donald Trump’s life was the subject of an internal “retaliation investigation” for anti-Trump and anti-conservative bias, a whistleblower revealed.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) urged President Biden Tuesday to rescind special envoy for climate change John Kerry’s security clerance.
An application for a security clearance that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, submitted was rejected.
Paris Dennard explained to Breitbart News how he was kept off television networks following his suspension by CNN in August, his former employer. He spoke with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
Hillary Clinton has relinquished her security clearance over her handling of sensitive information stored on a private email server.
A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shows that a full 59 percent of registered voters believe former CIA Director John Brennan should have lost his security clearance.
Seamus Bruner, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) researcher and author of Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, explained how former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller leveraged their government contacts to enrich themselves. He joined Peter Schweizer, GAI president and Breitbart News senior editor-at-large, for an interview on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
President Donald Trump tweeted Monday morning that those former intelligence officials who had emerged publicly to defend former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Brennan had done so to protect their economic interests.
The establishment media did not care when the Obama administration called for the aggressive scrubbing of security clearances back in 2013.
The potential racism in a white contributor (Philip Mudd) telling a black contributor (Paris Dennard) to “get out” for telling the truth was somehow lost on CNN.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis expressed solidarity with President Trump’s stripping of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance earlier this week.
Former President Barack Obama’s national security advisor Susan Rice voiced her support for former CIA director John Brennan after President Donald Trump removed his security clearance.
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Brennan called President Donald Trump’s decision Wednesday to revoke his security clearance an “attempt to suppress freedom of speech” and to “punish critics.”
Clear evidence concerning the bias of multiple, high-ranking current and former intelligence community officials should make us think twice about letting retired intelligence officials keep access to classified information, especially if they become talking heads on television after leaving public service.
With the Rob Porter scandal not far in the rearview, White House chief of staff John Kelly has issued a memorandum outlining changes to the White House security clearance process.
“I have publicly stated if that’s the case, the access has to be limited in terms of the kinds of information they can be in a position to receive or not receive,” Dan Coats said. “So I think that’s something that we have to do as part of our security clearance review.”
“What I can tell you is that the FBI submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in March and then a completed background investigation in late July,” Wray said in a Senate hearing.
A North Carolina-based private security firm left the personal info of U.S. citizens with Top Secret security clearance vulnerable to leaking by failing to secure an Amazon cloud server with a password.
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner released a statement ahead of his closed-door meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday, stating flatly that there is no collusion on his part involving the Russians, either during the 2016 presidential election or during the transition period.
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner reportedly omitted from his initial security clearance form at least 100 contacts that he made with foreign government officials. Kushner’s lawyers have claimed that Kushner’s initial filing of his SF-86 form did not mention any meetings with foreign officials whatsoever because an unnamed “member of his staff had prematurely hit the ‘send’ button for the firm before it was completed.”
It reads like something out of a screwball comedy: a far-left activist named “Reality Leigh Winner” somehow received clearance to work for the National Security Agency, which she allegedly proceeded to rob of classified material in the name of the kookburger anti-Trump “Resistance.” In the post-Edward Snowden era, how does someone like this get anywhere near sensitive data?
Democrat Sen. Al Franken said, “We should look at that” when asked during a Tuesday CBS This Morning interview if Senior Adviser to the President Jared Kushner’s security clearance should be revoked.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer countered questions about now former President Barack Obama’s warning to President Donald Trump regarding short-lived Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, with one of his own.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) discussed legislation he was introducing which would revoke the security clearance for those demonstrating “extreme carelessness” with classified information, which is what FBI Director James Comey described presumptive
Lt Gen Michael T. Flynn, who served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under President Obama, recommended this weekend that Hillary Clinton’s Top Secret security clearance be immediately revoked, due to concerns she incorrectly handled classified information in establishing a private, insecure email server for her personal use.
Senator Grassley asks a few less obvious, but very interesting, questions beyond the basics. For example, he asks a straightforward question that the Administration has thus far been reluctant to answer: does Hillary Clinton still have an active security clearance?
As the Hillary Clinton email scandal turns into a mushroom cloud, with new names popping into the chain of custody for her electronic communications every day, one of the lingering questions is whether any of these people were actually cleared to handle the sensitive, classified, and Top Secret information Clinton recklessly exposed.
The already-terrible tale of the “Pearl Harbor” hacker attack launched against U.S. federal government systems just got worse. The Chinese invaders pulled off a second massive security breach that may have given them access to “sensitive background information submitted by intelligence and military personnel for security clearances,” according to the Associated Press.
