Security clearances were removed from 37 former and current intelligence officials, including those with expertise on Russian election interference. Former National Security Adviser John Bolton's home was raided. Tulsi Gabbard had advocated de-politicizing the intelligence community, but recent clearance revocations have been characterized as political retribution by Matt Viser of The Washington Post. Media figures named include Jeffrey Goldberg, Laura Barron-Lopez, Jonathan Karl, Michael Scherer, and Matt Viser. The timing and targeting of the clearance removals and the raid on Bolton raise questions about the integrity and independence of intelligence operations and potential impacts on national security expertise.
This week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard removed the security clearances from 37 former and current intelligence officials, including those with expertise on Russian election interference. Meanwhile, former National Security Adviser John Bolton's home was raided.
"Tulsi Gabbard came in early on talking about trying to de-politicize the intelligence community," Matt Viser, the White House bureau chief at The Washington Post, said last night. But her latest decisions, among others, "gives the sense of political retribution."
Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Laura Barron-Lopez, a White House correspondent at MSBNC; Jonathan Karl, the chief Washington correspondent at ABC News; Michael Scherer, a staff writer at The Atlantic; and Viser, the White House bureau chief at The Washington Post.
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