Do you remember when Obama pulled security clearances back in 2013? Probably not, because it wasn’t a topic of discussion in the news then. Yet, five years later when Trump pulls the security clearance of traitor John Brennan and is preparing to pull others, it’s like the end of the world. Around 4-5 million people have security clearance in this country. About 1.4 million people have top secret security clearance. Doesn’t that sound a tad overdone?
And guess who Obama sent in 2013 to pull security clearances? None other than whining CNN hack James Clapper. Irony!
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“I write to express my concern about threats to national security resulting from the increasing number of people with eligibility for access to classified national security information, particularly Top Secret (TS) and Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information (TS/SCI),” Clapper wrote in a three-page memo, dated Oct. 31 and cited at a Senate hearing Wednesday.
Clapper asked agencies to perform a top-to-bottom scrub of the teeming rolls of people authorized to access classified information and to remove anyone deemed not to have a so-called need to know.
The memo itself does not set a deadline for the government-wide clearance review, but an aide to Clapper told a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs subcommittee that agencies have until the end of January to complete the process.