#security-clearances

#security-clearances

She also "got 37 individuals'" security clearances revoked by National Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard after the conspiracy theorist targeted them online, Warner said in a video posted to YouTube Wednesday evening. "When is the purge going to end? This is the kind of thing that happens in authoritarian regimes," Warner told reporters Thursday. "You purge your independent intelligence community and make them loyal not to a constitution but something else."

The FBI's actions were hard not to read as payback for Bolton's years of criticism of the president, even as the facts that persuaded a judge to approve a search warrant remain unknown. That's the problem with a politicized legal system-even if an investigation is legitimate, it's easy to assume that its motives are corrupt. Trump has spent years vowing retribution against Bolton, particularly after Bolton published a 2020 memoir that portrayed the president as incompetent and out of his depth on foreign policy.

The FBI on Friday raided the home of John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser and currently one of his most vocal critics. Agents entered Bolton's private residence in Bethesda, an affluent neighborhood in northwest Washington, as part of an investigation into the alleged use of classified documents by the former senior official, according to reports from the New York Post and the AP agency.

On Tuesday, Tulsi Gabbard announced she was stripping the clearance of 37 current and former spooks, in a thinly veiled political purge. NYT provides background on some of the people Tulsi purged, including Vinh Nguyen, who was purged because he allegedly pressured Tulsi's so-called whistleblower to affirm conclusions in the 2017 ICA, but who had remained in active service as a crucial contributor to NSA's quantum computing efforts until this purge. This purge clearly places loyalty to Trump over America's most crucial intelligence efforts.

politicizing and manipulating intelligence, leaking classified intelligence without authorization, and/or committing intentional egregious violations of tradecraft standards.