Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has revoked the security clearances of 37 renegade intelligence officials who either politicized intelligence, leaked classified information, or trespassed tradecraft standards.
Announced in an X post, Gabbard wrote that she acted under the orders of President Trump.
The revocations come after the administration rescinded the security clearances of Joe Biden and some of his top officials in March.
On Inauguration Day, Trump ordered Gabbard to revoke the security clearances of the 51 intelligence officials, including those of DNI James Clapper and former CIA chief John Brennan, who knowingly and falsely claimed the notorious Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation,” a lie then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden repeated in his third debate with President Trump.
The media cooperated in that lie, which helped Biden defeat Trump in 2020.
This is at least the third round of security-clearance revocations.
On January 20, Trump ordered Gabbard to revoke the clearances of the gang that lied about the Hunter Biden laptop.
“Federal policymakers must be able to rely on analysis conducted by the Intelligence Community and be confident that it is accurate, crafted with professionalism, and free from politically motivated engineering to affect political outcomes in the United States,” Trump wrote:
The signatories willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Community to manipulate the political process and undermine our democratic institutions. This fabrication of the imprimatur of the Intelligence Community to suppress information essential to the American people during a Presidential election is an egregious breach of trust reminiscent of a third world country. And now the faith of Americans in all other patriotic intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect the Nation has been imperiled.
The order also noted that former National Security Advisor John Bolton had revealed sensitive information in his memoir The Room Where It Happened.
Aside from Clapper and Brennan, former CIA directors Michael Hayden and Leon Panetta also lost clearances.
“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,” the 51 wrote in attempting to save Biden’s candidacy.
To protect themselves, they claimed they didn’t know if Boy Biden’s emails published in the New York Post “are genuine.” And, they admitted, they had no “evidence of Russian involvement.” But ”our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.”
Thus did the media run with the lie that the laptop was, indeed, Russian disinformation. Politico has not removed or amended the false story at its website.
The letter provided Joe Biden with what he needed during his debate with Trump.
“There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what [Trump is] accusing me of is a Russian plant,” Biden said. “Five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage.”
Except that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said otherwise days before Biden’s claim on October 22, 2019.
“Let me be clear: the intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that,” he said of the disinformation claim. “And we have shared no intelligence with Chairman [Adam] Schiff, or any member of Congress, that Hunter Biden’s laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign. It’s simply not true.”
Amusingly, the federal prosecutor in the case involving Hunter Biden’s gun felony called the claim that the laptop was “Russian disinformation” and a “conspiracy theory.”
On March 22, Trump revoked clearances for Biden and his family, former Vice President Kamala Harris, former secretaries of state Antony Blinken and Hillary Clinton, and crackpot New York prosecutors Letitia James and Alvin Bragg. Also included was turncoat Republican Liz Cheney.
On Tuesday, Gabbard published a “memorandum for distribution” that targeted another 37 intelligence officials.
“Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold,” she wrote on X:
In doing so, they undermine our national security, the safety and security of the American people and the foundational principles of our democratic republic.
The 37, she said, “abused the public trust.”
The memo accused them of conduct that undermined standards for intelligence officers, including:
Politicization or weaponization of intelligence to advance personal, partisan, or non-objective agendas inconsistent with national security priorities;
Failure to safeguard classified information in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and agency policies;
Failure to adhere to professional analytic tradecraft standards; and
Other conduct detrimental to the trust and confidence required for continued access to national security information.
The memo terminated not only all clearances and access to any classified system or facility but also any jobs or contracts with the government. Security credentials must be surrendered.
The memo, which includes the names of the 37, does not detail what the officials did.
In a separate blow to the Deep State, Gabbard has reduced the DNI office expenditures by more than 40 percent to save taxpayers more than $700 million by fiscal year’s end on September 30. The move will “better enable ODNI to focus on fulfilling its critical role of serving as the central hub for intelligence integration, strategic guidance, and oversight over the Intelligence Community,” a news release said.