John Brennan lost his security clearance “today” because this is “frenzied commentary”, Brennan’s response to a tweet that launched a thousand whistles...
“...a partisan and vindictive violation of the First Amendment”
There are no reasons, everything happens coincidentally (or stochastically).
Trump appears fully prepared to rob the nation of decades of international experience, retaining only those who “say nice things about him” regardless of their knowledge or competence.
The judiciary has largely concluded that, with limited exception, the courts have no role to play in the security clearance arena. The Supreme Court infamously ruled in Dep’t of Navy v. Egan that Congress had not afforded it the jurisdictional authority to review the substantive merits of a security clearance determination. In subsequent years the courts have uniformly relied upon dicta from the Egan ruling to state that the judiciary has no role at all in the substance of security clearance determinations.
The one exception to this rule is when procedural due process protections are implicated under the Fifth Amendment. A mere four months after its ruling in Egan, the Supreme Court issued Webster v. Doe, which opened the door ever so slightly to permit judicial review of colorable procedural constitutional claims implicating national security personnel determinations. The high court in Webster concluded that, absent express congressional language, it would not construe statutes in a manner that would preclude judicial review of constitutional claims implicated by the government’s implementation of those statutes. That slight opening has nonetheless been the premise upon which the lower courts have, on rare occasions, seen fit to pry into the bureaucratic workings of the process of revoking an individual’s security clearance.
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Trump, though, is not burdened with an affinity for respecting institutional norms. He already bulldozed those norms when it came to hiring his daughter and son-in-law, refusing to place his assets in a blind trust, and refusing to disclose his tax returns. What is to stop him from running over another norm?
If the president were to take this unprecedented exercise of his authority, it is anyone’s guess how the courts would construe the issue. It would set up a serious clash of constitutional questions between the inherent authority of the president regarding classified information, the procedural due-process rights of clearance holders under the Fifth Amendment, and the extent to which the judiciary is even permitted to rule on the matter.
As the president would say, we’ll just have to wait and see.
A desperate Trump tries to pivot away from the reality that there are many recordings of his racist rants.
Haberman tries to give Trump a hand, moving away from his racism
First Tweets after the first Diet Coke of the day were congratulatory election boilerplate with some people 45* has never even met, then WH activity moved to the more actual Trump obsessions, striking back at critics.
Other than his usual cribbed quotes, 45*’’s trying to do more heavily coded racism wishing happy birthday to Waters because it was Mueller’s birthday last week, clowning on Chuck Schumer, etc,
There’s now the usual stupidity, now with Rigged Russian witches, then something to offset the contradictions of his so-called policies in trade and tariffs. So Brennan was chosen as an example, even as it’s old news and hence a weak signal of retaliation. Pretty pathetic if it’s a Bill Shiney object.
Because the rigged Russian witches were at work with the other guy “paid by Putin”
Chuck Johnson, Holocaust denier, and Dana Rohrabacher on their way to see Julian Assange
But, according to Rolling Stone, Keirstead had more to worry about in his race than just trying to finish ahead of the pack. Starting in August 2017, Keirstead was subject to a “spear-phishing attempt” similar to those used in infiltrating the accounts of Democratic consultant John Podesta and members of the DNC. It’s not clear that this effort allowed the hackers into Keirstead’s system, but a few months later his campaign suffered “a sophisticated and sustained” hacking effort. In one month, bots fired off ID/password combinations at Keirstead’s campaign server—more than 130,000 attempts in all. The hacking attempts continued for another six weeks after that, going after the campaign’s hosting service and Twitter account.
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