After a controversial leak investigation, which included New York DOJ subpoenas to collaborating journalists, it appears the Dept of War has identified the source of the Airforce One security compromise, former Secretary of the Airforce, Frank Kendall.
Disgraced former Biden appointee and staunch activist democrat Frank Kendall has now lost his security clearance, and his nongovernmental career as a contractor, consultant and lobbyist within the area of military procurement. Kendall can no longer hold any sensitive position in the private sector that touches on Pentagon programs.
(Via Dept of War via X) – Effective immediately, the Department of War has REVOKED former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s eligibility for access to classified information and his ability to hold any sensitive position.
This action follows his unauthorized disclosure of classified information regarding Air Force One’s capabilities to a media outlet.
Safeguarding classified information is a non-negotiable duty. Those who violate that trust forfeit the privilege of access and any role requiring it. (source)
This type of duplicitous scheming is one of the reasons why DC didn’t want Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. DC wanted someone they could count on to undermine President Trump.
Yeah Pete,I wouldn’t be happy either if z was sitting a couple rows behind me.
There should be more pain sent his way. Thanks, Sundance.
If he has a pension they should not only cancel it but claw back
Even better than my suggestion to lock him up. Hit ’em where it hurts.
Harborside dinner incident. Some teens.
Why would a former BIDEN appointee have top secret information about Air Force One??? 🤔
That’s the way to get things done!!!
Shame on Kendall!!
Soon to be hired by the Commie media. Any guesses on which network? Pfft!!
Me thinks the camp David staff meeting was a leak trap. The story of Hegseth and Trump having a blow up was the bait.
Kendall is fortunate he hasn’t been charged with Treason.
There’s still time for that.
Depends upon what happens next.
Would be difficult to get the charge of treason to stick without a declaration of war from Congress.
Sedition however, might be different when it comes to clawing back his military and or government pensions.
Well, I still like to call them traitors. “Leaker” doesn’t quite fit these evil demons.
Traitors they are, but the issue is that the charge of treason against the United States is narrowly defined in Article III Section 3 of the Constitution.
Subversives
That gets my vote. Not just canceling his day job, but racking up the legal bills.
He needs to be Court Marshaled.
Recall to active duty, then throw the UCMJ at him.
Is that an available route? Like the congressman who was an astronaut?
Not so much in practice even if the offenses were committed during a period of service.
Would have had to commit quite an offense like a war crime during his service probably.
Like attempting to have Air Force One shot down?
Don’t think the Pentagon or the DoJ want to go anywhere near that unfortunately.
“A West Point graduate and retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel”
This announcement came from the Dept of War, but since he is a civilian and was during the whole time of this, then any prosecution would likely come from DOJ, not the military. He may very well be charged. Will just have to stay tuned.
If prosecution comes from the DOJ he is home free…
It should be Court Martial. Sorry, I was so angry I spelled it wrong.
More charges to follow?
This is criminal-
Why wasn’t he arrested and charged? Disclosing classified information is a felony.
Good question. We should have learned about with news of his arrest along with a booking photo.
18 U.S.C. § 793 broadly prohibits the willful communication of national defense information to unauthorized persons, with penalties of up to 10 years in prison, fines, or both.
I think previous poster D One has it right. DOW pulls his clearance but DOJ has to do the criminal bit
You get a rope and I’ll get line now Honey
Hang ’em high.
Frank Kendall may be a leaker, but he may not be the only one.
We got to start somewhere…
Since he has been out of government since Biden left office in Jan 2025, I would bet that he got the info he leaked from someone still inside the Air Force or inside a defense contractor. Kendall likely has many contacts in the world of procurement. Sphincters must be starting to tighten.
Indeed, SSCI?
Follow the money.
Someone was paying.
If DOW was serious, once they found him leaking, they would have gotten DOJ involved immediately and started vacuuming up all of his comms and anyone within 2 hops of him.
Start rolling them up, regardless of whether they work at some leftist propaganda outlet or politically connected contractor.
Make Kendall’s anal exam last for the next several months with no end in site. Him, family, friends, associates. Make it such that everyone knows, your life will change drastically if you leak.
An example desperately needs to be set or this garbage will continue right up until Trump leaves office, and even after.
Or do we wait until AF1 is blown out of the sky and then wonder how it could happen.
There is Our SHEEPDOG in the Front Row.
A real American Shepherd if ever there was one.
He does have that “Border Collie Stare”…..just saying….
My son received an SCCI clearance from the Army at age 17, the youngest person ever to received that clearance level. He took it extremely seriously; he would never talk about his work or anything he learned while working. My husband also had a security clearance but at a much lower level; our son wouldn’t even tell him anything that was classified. We were so proud of him. He was in for 12 years and now it’s been that long since he left the service, but he still won’t talk about anything he knew or saw. So a 17-year-old kid understood the seriousness of his clearance far better than an actual secretary of the Air Force!
Somehow I suspect your son is not a dumocrat.
Call it a hunch. 😎
When I talked with my career Navy brother 20 years or so after his retirement – at our mother’s funeral 23 years ago – we were making generic small talk about some of the trouble the republic was in.
He had had high clearances and it was obvious that “what he would talk about” hadn’t changed one bit.
For honest people, it’s not complicated.
Reprehensible is being kind for what this traitor did. More needs to happen to him and whoever he shared the information with.
Loss of security clearance……..big deal……..he has many friends.
Trump needs to find a way to utilize much more damaging munitions for much lower cost !!!!
He is being played like a fiddle.
What a way to end a career. A very stupid way.
Seems to be happening a lot lately. No?
2 tiered justice strikes again!
He should be behind bars. They let him off easy.
Put the bastard against the wall and pull the trigger. Damned traitor!
Let the military prosecute that POS and all like him and skip the worthless civilian court because a contractor of the military deserves the heat.
When is the trial ?
Had a compliant Sec Of War been in and AF1 shot down killing President Trump, there would never have been a cover so big… Not even Water Gate.
Now, prosecute the SOB. He had a distinguished career in the DoD, but One “F”-UP is all it takes.
Make an example of him. Diesel therapy on the “first thing smoking”, he won’t face a Judge or Jury, so just fly him between the Aleutians and Saipan, with a couple quick stops to Thule Greenland, non-stop for two years.
In the old days we would send out a strongly worded letter to whoever was jeopardizing the constitution, the president, the execution of office, or lives of service members — usually not very effective.
Today, we are so much more advanced: We send a strongly worded X.com message. SO much more EFFECTIVE! –/s
firing, ending salary, clawing back pay — will still not be enough.
Until people start being executed by hanging, electrocution, or injection — we will not have effective deterrence.
Our constitution and its effective function were paid for with blood. Those who undermine it should pay the same.
I often wonder why that punishment is avoided. Citizens scream for it, Congress ignores it.
This man is retirement age. He has his salary, his pension, his career, probably his payola for leaking, and money stashed in offshore accounts, kids and grandkids admitted with scholarships funded by taxpayers. All of that should be taken back as well. Given the patters of families and American Cartels — every family member should be investigated for nefarious activity. His crimes should cause everyone associated with him to pay with some discomfortof investigation
This isn’t good enough; not by a long shot. This treasonous a-hole was a key part of a scheme to have everyone aboard Air Force One, including the POTUS, assassinated.
He should face a military tribunal and then, after a fair trial, be executed.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
Maybe its time for another deep dive review of who has what security clearances and remove those clearances that are not necessary for national security….and if its just given/kept, for reasons like “its how we have always done it” its time for more change.
The President already had another security breech, this past week.
In other words, letting some folks keep that credential, because its been a precedent, is time to end. They don’t need it anymore if not in the chain of command.
Enough is enough.
This treasonous prick should hung
“Murkowski is not up for reelection until 2028″…… in Alaska, she is installed not elected. Their voting system up there is so purposely convoluted and openly corrupt. She is hated by most of the GOP voters up there, but somehow, miraculously, she keeps getting “elected”.
People say the federal government has no role in state election systems. I say bullcrap they don’t. What’s next, vote by Twitter and Facebook?
wrong thread…so sorry
A disgrace to the name Frank, which implies solidity, old- fashioned virtue, and frank honesty.
Hopefully legal action is forthcoming.
This A_hole holds slots on various boards at Raytheon, Lockheed and few other choice places. So, he is about to take big personal finance loss. Although, the butt heads at Raythoen and Lockheed will likely reward him with a golden parachute.
Now there needs to be a legal action assigning him the “Long Course” at Ft Leavenworth as well as huge fines to at least chop away at his accumulated wealth.
Since this guy has close (Very High Level) ties with Raytheon and even Lockheed … he has-had access to detailed knowledge of the production information regarding the Munitions made by these companies for ALL 3-major services. He likely has information of production by others as well (for at least competitive business intel reasons).
His commercial job and Federal Clearances also gave him access to detailed Government Information with ACTUAL CURRENT Stocks, Usage rates and Production Rates of munitions.
Now consider all the stories regarding ammunition supplies held by the US Military. If he was willing to sell out the President there are no limits to what this guy would do.
@Sundance
There are some comments that should be flagged, but cannot be.
They include calls to line up & shoot the subject of the article.
I believe those comments are placed to cause your website harm & defunding.
And nothing of consequence happens.
Again.
Sigh…..
Anyone think that if this happened to obama or biden this scum would not already by arrested with tanks and machine guns at 300 am? Non- stop media coverage, quick trial and riots?
I say this was Treason by disseminating top secret info to the enemy during an active war. Hang him high!
This POS should be in prison.
How about Lock Him Up?
Why isn’t that treason
Kudos to whomever sniffed this pustule out and identified him.
The first of hundreds of POS’s from the Left that work against our country. Expel him.
Barack Obiden had Trump Grannies jailed so no one would ever challenge his Child Trafficking Police State again. And they were innocent.
The reason to charge this bum is so the next traitor thinks twice.
I still do not understand why these “former” people retain their security clearances? When I separated from the Marines after 12 years of holding a Top Secret clearance they didn’t mince any words when they informed me that my clearance would be nullified upon release from active duty.
12 years in the Marines
Thank you for your service !!
🙂
MAGA
I want to know exactly how they proved this was the guy who leaked. Why no info on that?
And who were the collaborating journalists that were sent subpoenas.
Someone else was involved here. How else would he know this information or know where to look. That is someone who needs to be looked at.
Assuming this is true, why isn’t this guy being prosecuted?
I’m no lawyer, but, isn’t this a crime?