The leftist media are calling this “revenge,” however, in reality it is more akin to modest accountability given the nature of the conduct and motive behind it.
President Trump issued an executive order late Monday [SEE HERE] seeking to revoke the security clearances of 50 former intelligence and high-ranking government officials. Each of the officials participated in the widely discussed election interference operation surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop and the 2020 election.
The Intelligence Community (IC, aka Deep State, aka “six ways from Sunday” group) forms the tip of the spear in both controlling U.S politics, manipulating intelligence gathering machinery – including those used to control politicians, and targeting any entity who tries to confront their unconstitutional efforts. In short, the IC is the Fourth Branch of Government, and they have grown to operate with malicious intent.
It was the IC operation who targeted President Trump in 2016 and throughout his first term. It is the same IC who manipulate media for political gain and who weaponized information surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020. In President Trump’s second term, starting now, it is only by confronting the IC officials, named and hidden, that putting America-First policy into place will succeed.
Any and all efforts to fight and destroy the IC are supported by CTH and this assembly of research wolverines.
In a mostly symbolic message that will gain massive attention, President Trump now starts to revoke the Security Clearances of multiple IC officials who have been exposed as an outcome of the Biden Laptop operation. I say ‘symbolic’ because President Trump is well aware of the IC motives, and they have been removed from influence over the executive branch operation; more on that later.
Here is the Executive Order that fires a shot across the bow of the corrupt apparatus.
Sec. 2. Policy. (a) It is the policy of the United States to ensure that the Intelligence Community not be engaged in partisan politics or otherwise used by a U.S. political campaign for electioneering purposes. The term “Intelligence Community” has the meaning given the term in section 3003 of title 50, United States Code.
(b) It is the policy of the United States that individuals who hold government-issued security clearances should not use their clearance status to influence U.S. elections.
(c) It is the policy of the United States that classified information not be publicly disclosed in memoirs, especially those published for personal monetary gain.
Sec. 3. Implementation. (a) Effective immediately, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, shall revoke any current or active clearances held by the following individuals:
(1) James R. Clapper Jr.
(2) Michael V. Hayden
(3) Leon E. Panetta
(4) John O. Brennan
(5) C. Thomas Fingar
(6) Richard H. Ledgett Jr.
(7) John E. McLaughlin
(8) Michael J. Morell
(9) Michael G. Vickers
(10) Douglas H. Wise
(11) Nicholas J. Rasmussen
(12) Russell E. Travers
(13) Andrew Liepman
(14) John H. Moseman
(15) Larry Pfeiffer
(16) Jeremy B. Bash
(17) Rodney Snyder
(18) Glenn S. Gerstell
(19) David B. Buckley
(20) Nada G. Bakos
(21) James B. Bruce
(22) David S. Cariens
(23) Janice Cariens
(24) Paul R. Kolbe
(25) Peter L. Corsell
(26) Roger Z. George
(27) Steven L. Hall
(28) Kent Harrington
(29) Don Hepburn
(30) Timothy D. Kilbourn
(31) Ronald A. Marks
(32) Jonna H. Mendez
(33) Emile Nakhleh
(34) Gerald A. O’Shea
(35) David Priess
(36) Pamela Purcilly
(37) Marc Polymeropoulos
(38) Chris Savos
(39) Nick Shapiro
(40) John Sipher
(41) Stephen B. Slick
(42) Cynthia Strand
(43) Greg Tarbell
(44) David Terry
(45) Gregory F. Treverton
(46) John D. Tullius
(47) David A. Vanell
(48) Winston P. Wiley
(49) Kristin Wood
(50) John R. Bolton
Two signatories, Patty Patricia A. Brandmaeir and Brett Davis, are deceased.
(b) Within 90 days of this order, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, shall submit a report to the President through the National Security Advisor that details:
(i) any additional inappropriate activity that occurred within the Intelligence Community, by anyone contracted by the Intelligence Community or by anyone who held a security clearance, related to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officials;
(ii) recommendations to prevent the Intelligence Community or anyone who works for or within it from inappropriately influencing domestic elections; and
(iii) any disciplinary action—including the termination of security clearances—that should be taken against anyone who engaged in inappropriate conduct related to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officials.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
[SOURCE]
This is a silo penetrating MOAB that starts the beginning of a war that will leave only one system standing, a Constitutional Republic or IC controlled Totalitarianism. Either President Donald Trump wins or We the People will be stuck within the illusion of democracy.
This is not hyperbole.
Rally to the mission!
It’s a great start! Now on to all those former government “workers” and subcontractor clearances. They aren’t in the government, they ought to have to prove one by one that they actually need them to provide a valuable service to the county.
Let Biden try to pardon that.
Why did he not include Mary McCord on this list?
Ditto…hopefully this is just the first round
mary mccord needs prosecution and internment at gitmo.
You’re way too kind…
She was not one of the signers of the Hunter Lap Top letter.
McCord’s pardon will not save her. The pardon was for acts as part of the “select committee.” It says nothing about acts prior to or after.
We can only hope something is done about this backstabber then.
Same should apply to Schitt.
Verbage from XO:
FOR ANY OFFENSES against the United States which they may have committed or taken
part in arising from or in any manner related to the activities or subject matter of the Select
Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
What about Gregor Sorearse or George Soars ? as he calls himself.
He and his spawn MUST be called to justice.
The structure that prevents elected Senators and Representatives from having free access to ANY government material, personnel, site, analytical product must be eliminated.
Willful ignorance must end.
No excuses.
“Symbolic”? No, revoking their clearances makes them essentially unemployable.
That’s exactly right. If there job requires that clearance, they will have to be demoted or lose their jobs. Makes me wanna do a jig.
I disagree with unemployable. The MSM or liberal colleges will give them a sinecure as a reward for faithfully defending and supporting the deep state. Examples: Chelsea Clinton or George Stephanopoulos, others.
Praises and All Glory to God Almighty! Isaiah 43:19 “I am doing a new thing”…
MAGA THANKS to President Trump,First Lady Melania Trump and Trump Family, Sundance, CTH, and Treeper’s whose insightful remarks continue to light our paths with their wisdom and witty remarks that bring us many chuckles daily in our lives. Blessings to all.
Mary McCord got a preemptive pardon.
Presumably, she has a security clearance, as she submits applications to the FISA Court. That should be yanked….yesterday.
Clearances and pardons are not related. Clearances are granted through executive authority, a pardon prevents judicial review.
Also, McCord’s pardon as part of the January 6th select committee (staff) was only for the time the committee existed and doesn’t say they are pardoned for anything they might have done “ever.”
If she accepts the pardon, then she is admitting to being guilty of a crime that should automatically void her security clearance.
now to go after them with the doj for providing false information…. prison for them
They lost ther paychecks thats great thing..
Ditto with respect to the last paragraph.
There is a powerful aspect of this executive order that cannot be overlooked.
The 50 cockroaches named in the order still have connections/contacts throughout the Deep State. They will continue to have access to whatever classified information they desire.
However….now they don’t have the protection of a federal security clearance. If anyone on that List of Vermin is caught possessing and/or communicating classified information, they can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Prison Time!!
It also has a huge effect on the media outlets that employ these vermin. If they broadcast classified information that they received from one of these traitors, they can be prosecuted as well.
This completely flips the battlefield in President Trump’s favor. Golden Era indeed!
Clapper, Brennan, Morrell, Pannetta, and Bolton’s names being listed have me doing the happy dance.
One other one brings me a smile, also. Jeremy Bash. The godawful Dana Bash’s ex, and CIA spook under Obama.
Even with Jeremy being her ex, what’s the chances that some “breaking news” happened to fall into Dana’s lap
over the years when her ex was bored, and a narrative had to be created?
See if Dana Bash starts to hit a brick wall now that her ex no longer has a security clearance.
To quote the late, great Frank Nelson (Jack Benny show)
“Whooooooooooo! That’s too baddd….!!!”
You said they will continue to have access through their contacts.
Their contacts will change their phone numbers to keep from being prosecuted for leaking information.
The cockroaches will not even get crumbs.
If their contacts get caught sharing info with or even just affiliating with people whose clearance was revoked for cause those contacts are jeopardizing their own security clearance.
If they access confidential information they are commiting a crime. And persons who allow them to access such material also committed a crime.
Exactly.
And now the President needs to order AG Bondi on the day she is confirmed, to charge and arrest the Vindman Brothers and Eric Ciaramella with Seditious Treason. They were right in the White House at the NSA and openly worked at having the President prosecuted and Impeached. They MUST answer for that.
And, recall Milley to active duty and let the UCMJ do its work. If nothing else, they can court martial him and bust him down to E-1 which will greatly crimp his style.
Bring it on!
He needs to revoke the security clearance of the “Gang of 8” which is not a constitutionally recognized entity. It’s a “committee!” Revoke THOSE people and let them appoint some replacements who can pass a background check.
Congressional oversight is a Constitutionally mandated legislative function. The “Gang of 8” is a compromise to provide some semblance of oversight without allowing all 538 members to get access (and leak) the most highly classified info.
Once again…it’s either the language of the order issued by President Trump or the words used by Sundance in his article …. “President Trump signed an executive order SEEKING TO REVOKE ….”
If it’s the language used by the President, this is a repeat of the 1/2 measures taken 2017 to 2020.
The is NO SEEKING REQUIRED. The President of the US is the ORIGINATING AUTHORITY for ALL things classified (including clearances) by the LAW and Constitution.
If President Trump ORDERS revoked … there are no questions and there is NO wiggle room. The clearance ARE REVOKED, without review. The leaders involved with disobeying this order can be fired for disobeying a DIRECT LEGAL ORDER from the President.
I hope President Trump stops with the 2-step processes when it is not required.
The way the articles are reading in the media … it is a temporary revocation pending LEGAL review, I hope that review is by only the NEW White House Council STOP.
While I share your sentiments, unfortunately it doesn’t work that way – though it should.
The courts, repeatedly, have demurred to “national security” and the IC’s fluid definition of it time and again. The recent TikTok decision is just the latest example. Jack Smith’s document case is a larger example of it. Yes, the judges involved with that sham are corrupt, but to the vast majority of the public they still carry the imprimatur of their robes.
This EO is only the opening salvo of the War on the Deep State. I’ve been cautioning everyone that if you’re looking for an immediate 180 in the way things are done, you’re likely to be disappointed. Decades – nearly a century now – of corruption does not get undone in a few years.
Seems to me section (ii) is a BIGGIE.
A whole book could be written, of reccomendations for how to “,…prevent the I/C or anyone who works for it from innapprorlruately effecting our elections.”
and Sundance could write it.
That letter signed by the 51 was just the obvious, overt election tampering.
There was so much more that was covert…
overall, this EO is like 1000 beurocrats at the bottom of the ocean; a good start.
Who gives a ____ what the leftist media thinks. Onward and upward!
It’s long past time that we stomp out immediately any attempt to repeat 2016 which a lot of them are doing.
The FBI and DoJ need to get the same treatment…of revocations..Mary McCord for starters.
Besides revoking clearances…remove their ability to interact in ALL matters with any executive branch Entity.
At least revoke ALL LEGAL access to the snake that resides OUTSIDE the Government. They are the ones who take the most overt actions vs the US.
Morell should have been Numero Uno on the list. He was the one who… by his own admission, if I recall… coordinated with Blinken to get The Fifty to run interference for Biden 2020…
Two people consistently make the hairs on my neck stand up when I see their pictures.
Mike Morrell is one. Just creepy. Want to take a shower whenever I see his face.
The other? John Carlin. The guy just oozes menace. Still think that he was an “enforcer”.
Good riddance . . . . .
You can complete the idiom.
Fabulous for sure, now President Trump continue the investigation into the 2020 ELECTION STEAL! Then follow through with the arrests and convictions of those involved in this treasonous act. We had a coup and we all know it during the 2020 election.
Day one has been really good !!!!!!
Hell yeah !
Reads like a list of those in a domestic terror cell.
Cuz it is one.
“Fire One.” Prepare to “Fire Two.” “Fire Two.” Prepare to “Fire Three.” “Fire Three.” Vindication begins…soon to be followed by Retribution.
Yes, accountability indeed. When did they hold a press conference and tell the world that they ‘got the intelligence wrong’? Oh yeah, that never happened.
They may have to learn to code, since it will be a lot harder to sell out our country for profit.
So sad.
Hopefully President Trump will add mary mccord to this ever growing list. Section 2b.
A great start. There are 14,000 federal employees who have done illegal warrantless searches on American citizens . Plenty of work left.
No photos for 8 of 51, that’s weird. They must have had a building access photo ID at some point. Most of these names are not household recognizable. So much power, so little accountability.
Dark shadows, hidden hand.
We’ve had the illusion of democracy problem for many decades.
In the recent decades the illusion has not only frayed but more and more often been given short shrift by the power elites.
takin’ out the trash
Now that Gitmo has been emptied, fill it up .. starting with all the above TRAITORS!
Hallelujah!
no Mary McCord yet?
Wonderful news! Finally, actions have consequences!
This is very Good News.
Should have included a “shall not reissue” provision, unless I missed it.
Question: why is the wording on this “seeking to revoke”? Why isn’t it “revoking”?
I’d like to see M McCord and a lot of other names on this list of those barred from receiving intelligence and shouldn’t all 51 names of the letter writers be the list as well?. Maybe this is just a ‘getting started’ list.
Why do you need Intelligence officers who can’t have a security clearance? Lower their pay to $9.50/hr and have them take out the trash and clean the stools.
The two deceased likely were boosted and died from vax induced turbo cancers.