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There is a backlog created by the Biden Administration in the processing of security clearances of individuals hired to work in the Executive Office of the President,
Trump’s executive memorandum said, referring to an office that employs hundreds of people They will start restricting their intelligence,
Signatories of the letter falsely suggested that the news story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign,
the Executive Order reads It's unclear if this would include foreign nationals,
One prominent pro-Democrat X account, Protect Kamala Harris, wrote The Executive Office of the President requires qualified and trusted personnel to execute its mandate on behalf of the American people,
President Donald Trump said in Monday's memorandum to the White House Counsel It would be contrary to decades of national security norms to suspend the security clearances of individuals who did nothing other than, as private citizens, exercise their protected First Amendment rights,
said Mark Zaid, an attorney who represents a number of the signatories They should be prosecuted for what they did,
Trump said of the 51 former officials who signed the letter, at a campaign rally in June We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails… are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case,
the former officials wrote in 2020. There’s nothing in this that shows me, regardless of presidential authority, that this action is not subject to existing law and policy that mandates procedural and substantive due process,
The president has a lot of authority when it comes to security clearances. The problem the White House will run into is, if they depart from their existing procedures, they could set up a judicial appeal for these 51 people — and it will probably be a class-action suit since they’re all in alike or similar circumstances,
said Dan Meyer, a Washington lawyer who specializes in the security clearance and background check process It’s so appalling that there is growing sympathy in the Republican Party and among the MAGA base for Mr. Putin and Russia, I’m sure Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his grave right now,
No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because is my son - and that is wrong,
he continued ... continued. It is also quite ironic that at the same time this Executive Order is issued the White House claims it supports the restoration of freedom of speech and seeks to end federal censorship,
The arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,
