By R. Cort Kirkwood
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has revoked the security clearances of 37 renegade intelligence officials who either politicized intelligence, leaked classified information, or trespassed tradecraft standards.
Announced in an X post, Gabbard wrote that she acted under the orders of President Trump.
The revocations come after the administration rescinded the security clearances of Joe Biden and some of his top officials in March.
On Inauguration Day, Trump ordered Gabbard to revoke the security clearances of the 51 intelligence officials, including those of DNI James Clapper and former CIA chief John Brennan, who knowingly and falsely claimed the notorious Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation,” a lie then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden repeated in his third debate with President Trump.
The media cooperated in that lie, which helped Biden defeat Trump in 2020.
This is at least the third round of security-clearance revocations.
On January 20, Trump ordered Gabbard to revoke the clearances of the gang that lied about the Hunter Biden laptop.
“Federal policymakers must be able to rely on analysis conducted by the Intelligence Community and be confident that it is accurate, crafted with professionalism, and free from politically motivated engineering to affect political outcomes in the United States,” Trump wrote:
The signatories willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Community to manipulate the political process and undermine our democratic institutions. This fabrication of the imprimatur of the Intelligence Community to suppress information essential to the American people during a Presidential election is an egregious breach of trust reminiscent of a third world country. And now the faith of Americans in all other patriotic intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect the Nation has been imperiled.
The order also noted that former National Security Advisor John Bolton had revealed sensitive information in his memoir The Room Where It Happened.
Aside from Clapper and Brennan, former CIA directors Michael Hayden and Leon Panetta also lost clearances…
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