Funny people arguing over how black the pot and kettle are.
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Doesn’t fit their rhetoric plus the libs have long had a soft spot for the commies. Goes back many decades.
It was Clapper who said the “largely secular” thing, not Brennan.
Ahh, sorry, mixed that up.
On a related note, this remains my favorite thing about Brennan:
One explosive issue is a report by John Guandolo that broke last week on Tom Trento’s “TrentoVision Show” and also was carried by Glenn Beck on Feb. 11. The report stated that Mr. Brennan was converted to Islam while CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia from 1996 to ‘99. Let’s be clear: In America, a man’s religion can never be a condition to his holding a government position. It is protected by both the First Amendment and Article 6 of the Constitution. Therefore, even if it is true that he converted, Mr. Brennan’s religion should not be an issue.
However, according to Mr. Guandolo — a former SWAT team leader at the FBI, counterterrorism and Muslim Brotherhood specialist and Marine platoon commander — what should be an issue was the Saudis’ targeted recruitment of Mr. Brennan to the ideology of Islam while he was serving as the CIA station chief in Riyadh. This was not just a conversion but a political act by a foreign intelligence service.
Ok.
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The lack of a security clearance would prevent them from being able to discuss classified matters.
No it wouldn’t, clearances are at their discretion, they can adjust them at their discretion. It’s not irrevocable and they can choose to read him in on anything they like if needed.
Uh huh, I believe you.
Not without granting him a new security clearance.
Just wait till we have a dem president and he/she does this…oh the butthurt is gonna be epic…
I don’t care for that guy.
The president can call you into the Oval Office tomorrow and show you secret documents or approve those under him to do the same and nobody can do anything to stop him.
The President can do that.
No one else can, though. Are you suggesting that any time an intelligence agency needs to get advice from a former head, the President should personally brief that former head?
Outside of signing an EO each time, the President cannot just tell a subordinate to read someone in to a classified program.
No, he doesn’t need to do it personally, all he need do is authorize it.
No, that’s not how it works.
The President would have to sign a new EO in each case.
No he wouldn’t.
From https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-classified-secrets.html
Did Mr. Trump have legal authority to disclose the information?
Yes. The designation of information as a restricted national security secret is considered part of the president’s constitutional powers as commander in chief. Because the classified information system was not established and is not regulated by congressional statutes, Mr. Trump has the power to declassify or disclose anything he wants.
“The classification system is not based on a law,” said Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy specialist with the Federation of American Scientists. “It is an expression of presidential authority, and that means that the president and his designees decide what is classified, and they have the essentially unlimited authority to declassify at will. The president defines the terms of the security clearance system and the parameters that determine who may be given access to classified information.”
Yes. The president can.
But we aren’t talking about the president asking Brennan to come in. We are talking about current employees of various intelligence agencies without the same authority to share classified information to whoever they want without clearances.
So they have to go through the president every time this is necessary? Seems like a stupid increase in bureacracy. Do you know how hard it is to get something in front of the president?
