Security Clearances, Shattered Egos and Revenge

Some people have criticized President Trump for taking away so many security clearances, from people like Biden, Bolton, Brennan, Blinken, Sullivan, and the fifty-one “intelligence” people who signed the bogus Hunter Biden Laptop Russian disinformation memo. Which was finally revealed to be true.

 

So, why would he continue to allow those miscreants to have security clearance to our nation's secrets? Especially if they were deceivers and liars? He obviously didn’t trust them.

On Saturday, we learned that two other people had their federal security clearances revoked. They are New York AG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Is this a revenge play? Of course it is. And it is well-played, like the Grandmaster Chess player that Donald Trump is. The Art of the Deal, indeed.

They will no longer be permitted to enter any Federal building to do their jobs. This includes the Javob Javitz Center, where the FBI is housed, any Federal Court House, like Foley Square in lower Manhattan, including the Thurgood Marshall and Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouses, or the D’Amato courthouse in Central Islip, and the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

They also will not be able to set foot in the US Attorney’s offices for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Bad move by the expert lawfare prosecutors. They just destroyed their privileges at the Federal level.

“It’s more an insult and a slap in the face than a real deterrent,” said attorney Bob Costello, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who testified as a defense witness in Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan.

And Trump is not done stripping others of their clearance privileges. Also in Trump’s sights are Biden’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, who was involved in overseeing lawfare investigations against Trump and coordinating the DOJ response to the Jan. 6 riot, and who helped orchestrate the Russia Hoax while working for Obama.

Next in line are anti-Trumpers Andrew Weissman, the lead prosecutor in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russiagate investigation of Trump; lawyer Mark Zaid, who represented Eric Ciaramella, the CIA analyst identified as the whistleblower in Trump’s impeachment in 2019 over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky; and Norm Eisen, special counsel to the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment.

So maybe he won’t be having any of these people prosecuted, as the Democrats and media proclaimed. Instead, he kicked their egos as they will no longer be able to have unfettered access to any Federal facility anywhere in the United States or its territories.

Aahhh, yes, the old Spanish (or is it Klingon) proverb: Revenge is a dish best served cold.