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This person we picked up in yemen or afghanistan. what do you recall about this case? how should we proceed? what about whats happening in pakistan? its to create a council of advisers, of former cia directors who dont need to go through the clearance process and look at current intelligence. its more for the benefit of the current intelligence. the great irony is this president is denying his own cia and other agency officials access to the wise counsel of brannan now and presumably the others ...

List and unprecedented. without any basis, there is no claim here by sarah sanders today there was any release of classified information, there was any violation of law. mike flynn lost his clearance either before or during his arrest, thats because of a legal case. we have people in this white house, and we know how abusive and how abused the security clearance process was, this comes just after weve learned omarosa was fired in the situation room, and made a recording in the situation room. we...

Away quickly. this is something the white house knows will fill headline space and kweez other things out, that is what theyre trying to do. to your point about very big and very small. this is not a small thing to have a president suggesting retribution for political criticism in this way. it is leveling out, flattening out where everything is the same, everything is political. nobody can have a motive other than good bad, up down about donald trump. there is that mirroring aspect where he take...

Public and to our adversaries. so its a process and reminds people -- this is why i like the clearance process, it reminds them you have an obligation. by the way, it will be criminal if you disclose this information unauthorized for the protection of the information of the u.s. government. so, yes, theres a lot of them, but yes, theres lots of work that goes across the government that you need to at least safeguard to some degree. and i think thats probably wholly appropriate. i think we are go...

Of institutional knowledge. if youre an analyst sitting at nsa or cia and working on a program that may be informed by something a former director said, the white house is saying thats off limits. this hurts national security. ill say, alisyn, its a fundamental misunderstanding of the security clearance process. they cannot distinguish between misusing classified information, which no one has been accused of, and criticism. if you look at the rob porter scandal f you look at jared kushner and hi...

Critics and particularly try to really bring in the politicization of this security clearance process. and its frankly unprecedented. ive never seen it happen before. and ive served for about 20 years in government across republican and democratic administrations. >> well, what the administration will say, which is also unprecedented, is having a former cia director like john brennan say that the president committed treason, which he said last week. >> look, i think youre right that people are g...

The mechanisms to remove security clearance because theyve politicized and in some cases monetized their public service and security clearances. >> but the white house did not check two of the officials, former fbi director james comey and his deputy andrew mccabe. they both had already lost their clearances automatically when they were fired. still, the white house is pushing ahead with what appears to be an off-the-cuff idea to exact revenge from some of the presidents most vocal and authorita...

Defense lawyer as maria buinas boyfriend. that said, prosecutors have alleged in their court filings that it might not actually be true love. that they have documentation that indicates that at least from butinas perspective, their personal relationship, their living together was not a sincere love affair. it was something she was doing somewhat resentfully as part of her covert influence operation for the russian government. according to the "washington post" reporting, on u.s. person one, chec...

Complained after the election when he ran into a problem with his security clearance. since we know he was sleeping with a russian spy, im kind of happy about the security clearance process in that case. just as an aside. even without official credentials though, eriksson pressed trump donors and former campaign officials pushing for top positions for people he thought especially qualified. one person recalled his lobbying to get k.t. mcfarland named as an adviser to michael flynn. he was named ...

On almost every single trip the president took and he was even slated to go with him to california today. just to give you a sense of how often he was by president trumps side. and now this sudden departure. it shocked to white house staff, actually. it was first reported there was something with his background check but we are learning that he is beinged investigated. theres still not a lot of clarity on exactly what he was being investigated for. >> okay. when you hear the words serious financ...