Um, good? Security clearance should probably revoked for everyone not in an active role that requires it.
The hats not how security clearance works. That also ignores that Trump broke several laws when he used that security clearance while he was campaigning to “negotiate” with Israel and Putin even through he wasn’t president. You can’t have it both ways.
I revoke Trump’s security clearance to my secrets. If he submits an FOIA request, within 90 days, I’ll be happy to send him 40 pages of redacted text where the only words not redacted are “Ivanka” and “BOFA.”
What’s the Bank of America have to do with anything?
BOFA Deez nuts lol gottem
That’s normal. Remember how every other president did the same thing? /s
Only reason to do that is if he’s hiding something.
It may not even be that rational. It could be as simple as him being petty.
100% it’s pettiness. He thrives on it. He ENJOYS being a barrier to people’s access to anything. It’s how he feels ‘powerful’.
It can be a dictator likely is both
No one in the title deserves security clearances, especially not Trump and Hillary.
Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State for eight years and has plenty of reason to have a security clearance for her advice. Lumping her in with Trump (let alone saying that Biden and Harris who were just P and VP mere months ago shouldn’t have clearance) is an absolute dogshit take.
Does her current role require access to classified data? If it does not, then she doesn’t need clearance. It is literally as simple as “need to know”.
What role? Clinton works at Columbia now. It’s a matter of fact nonetheless that former officials are often called back to discuss things they have special knowledge of, let alone a Secretary of State of eight years. Would that be used now? No, because Donald Trump is a petulant fucking moron who does whatever braindead, evil, impulsive shit he wants. Would it if we had a competent president? Almost certainly, yes. I’m aware of the principle of least privilege; it does not apply here. It’s especially useful to have in a time of crisis because procedures still need to be followed, and getting clearance takes time. If you need that information right now but their clearance is revoked, you’re screwed.
Donald Trump being an absolute moron and refusing to ever use her expertise isn’t a valid reason to revoke her clearance.
I’m unclear why she needs a security clearance in order to be interviewed about things she remembers from her time in office
You need to have a clearance to communicate classified information. Asking her a question about something classified would likely reveal information that can’t be transmitted to an uncleared person. As an uncleared person, she can’t say anything classified even to someone who has a current clearance.
I don’t care if she was Secretary of State, keep her the fuck away considering she tried to start WW3 over Syria of all places to protect ISIS and ‘moderate rebels’ (whom just killed thousands recently in Latakia after their take over) from Russian bombs.
Her being the Secretary of State during that time period is even more reason to not give her security clearance.
Her stated reasons were to protect Syrian civilians, not “ISIS and moderate rebels” according to your own source… Be careful about spreading misinformation. It’s okay to have the opinion that that’s who she was protecting, but I’d say the stated goals of Obama’s admin plainly dispute that motivation as well.
She wanted to arm insurgents (only good thing is that one of the groups she would support would be Kurds) and then during her campaign, stated that she wants a no-fly zone under the guise of protecting civilians. Hmmm.
And to hinder Russian military operations in Syria was to support ISIS and ‘moderate rebels’ (mostly terrorists with exception of the Kurds) by proxy. It was Russian airpower that defeated ISIS as they destroyed ISIS command & control centers and destroyed ISIS ability to project force by destroying all targets that were not Assad’s forces (while many perhaps most of the targets were ‘moderate rebels’, the sheer number of sorties meant that significant damage to ISIS was done) at a time when the Syrian government’s supply lines was cracking.
Damascus would be ISIS controlled territory if Russia didn’t turn half of Syria into a parking lot. Russia did this in support of Assad who is a horrible dictator but them not doing this means ISIS would have defeated Syria which would be a more horrible outcome.
Why is trying to prevent Russian airstrikes on Assad’s behalf triggering doubt that it’s for the benefit of the civilians? The kurds weren’t the ones Exterminating them with chemical warfare
The article you linked once again states her motivations were not what you said… She wanted to support the Kurds, something virtually no progressive should have a problem with doing in the Middle East. She specifically wanted to prevent ISIS from coming to power by arming the kurds and you even acknowledge the airstrikes were mostly used against them and not just from Russia, but Turkey too thanks to Trump fully abandoning our allies. Also, for the people of Syria, Assad may represent stability for the Russian interests there, but horrible outcomes for the people, I find/found him to be the worst of the three options.
Again, you’re free to say you think her motivations were to give ISIS a Senzu bean, but her stated mission was to arm and train the kurds and topple Assad. Something that eventually happened from a less scrupulous group because of a power vaccuum left by Russia, after trying to shore up a US power vaccuum with a cruel dictator and getting distracted by other imperialist interests. If anything, the strong ISIS emergence was directly counter to her plans; If you don’t misleadingly claim the plan and motivations immediately stop after Assad is outsted, anyway.
The article you linked once again states her motivations were not what you said… She wanted to support the Kurds
Something which I stated: (only good thing is that one of the groups she would support would be Kurds)
However historically, efforts to fund ‘moderate rebels’ also benefitted groups such as the Al-Nusra Front.
Jacob Sullivan even stated to Hillary Clinton that, “AQ is on our side in Syria”, in reference to al-Qaeda likely about Al-Nusra Front (whom their successors are currently murdering Alawites in massacres, thankfully 10k is safe hiding in a Russian air base).
Hillary Clinton’s goal was not to have ISIS topple Assad however, America’s previous strategy at least before Russian air power ruined this, was to funnel ISIS concentrations into Assadist forces (in an effort to destroy ISIS) and fund moderate rebels, this however only led to ‘moderate rebels’ and ISIS hitting Assadist forces on both fronts as many of these ‘moderate rebel’ groups did not prioritize fighting ISIS (really the only one that did was the Kurds hence why I support supporting them). Even with America not directly supporting ISIS, one can easily see how this can benefit ISIS.
something virtually no progressive should have a problem with doing in the Middle East.
And nothing I have a problem with, they are the most democratic region in Syria, believers of socialism, and even Russia supported their aims that is federalization of Syria.
SDF barely did anything when Assadist forces were collapsing last year.
Also, for the people of Syria, Assad may represent stability for the Russian interests there, but horrible outcomes for the people, I find/found him to be the worst of the three options.
ISIS, a death cult that wants to start WW3 is a superior outcome according to you or am I not getting what you stating here?
Thankfully by 2024, ISIS was just a blip on a map albeit they remain a cockroach that refuses to die.
I’m not sure multiple post-hoc edits are going to make people trust you more, but better than nothing. Do people who interact with you need to screenshot the goalposts?
As for ISIS being better than Assad, I mean the bar is in hell, but for Syrians I think it’s unmistakable and Others seem to agree. Kurds would result in a much better governance. What we ended up getting with Al-Sharaa seems like the 2nd best scenario of the 4, which almost certainly couldn’t have happened without Ukraine putting up the defense they did.
The Kurds were abandoned to Turkey, and you’re surprised they’re on the defense? Erdogan wants them dead more than anything. We can talk about alternative timelines, but let’s not ignore what got us to the current set of facts and pretend it was always going to be this way.
What a pathetic little man.
Tiny 🍄
Aw let’s not besmirch the poor mushroom. Trump’s penis is an itty-bitty, teenie-fungi weenie.
An itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow, pustulant porcini
