Page 15 - Clearance Process News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

President, it applies to his entire family and any asset. >> it can't be enforced at all. >> it can't be enforced. >> but the fact that he thinks he can enforce it or wants to give the impression to those staffers that they need to legally -- they're legally bound to say good things about him. >> and if you have a junior staffer who has seen something, are they going to hire a lawyer to fight this nda or are they going to say i don't want to take the risk of paying millions of dollars. >> people should know there are strong whistleblower statutes and other laws that protect people disclosing t...

President is currently considering is yanking those security clearances. those remain with them as a courtesy. not just brennan but anyone coming out of a senior position. and frankly we should be overhauling the clearance process regard let's. but i think to lee's point in this article that you started with, yes, it is true that by talking the way that john brennan is talking and talking the way that klapper is discussing, in a sense they're furthering the russian objective, which is essentially and always has been over decades to sow discord and doubt and confusion. and when you have someone...

Considering is yanking those security clearances. those are given to them or remain with them as a courtesy. not just brennan but anyone coming out of a senior position. and frankly we should be overhauling the clearance process regardless. but i think, to lee's point in this article that you started with, yes, it is true that by talking the way that john brennan is talking and talking that james clapper is discussing, there are -- in a sense, they're furthering the russian objective which is essentially and always has been over decades to so discord and doubt and confusion. -- to sew discord ...

Public and to our adversaries. so it's 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, there's a lot of them, but yes, there's lots of work that goes across the government that you need to at least safeguard to some degree. and i think that's probably wholly appropriate. i think we are going to relook -- the government i should say is going to relook at the security clearance proces...

Like barack obama was entitled to have a legitimately qualified nominee approved by the senate? >> well, of course, he is, every president would be but you just had a man on your show, mr. leo who has extraordinary position. he is involved in not only selection process but he's key to it. when the white house chose nile gorsuch they didn't call gorsuch, they called mr. leo they said would you like to call judge gorsuch and tell him the good news, that's what's going on here. federalist society is going through clearance process, make sure -- chris: i don't know about that fact, but let me just...