Trump Can Use Clapper’s Program To Take Away Clapper’s Security Clearance
Patrick Howley
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President Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of the Operation Crossfire Hurricane team, which was led by John Brennan and James Clapper.
It turns out James Clapper actually put in place a program to monitor all of the activities of top security clearance-holders, back when Clapper was working in the Obama administration in 2014. This program can, and likely already has, provided President Trump with enough evidence of Brennan and Clapper duplicity to justify the revocation of their clearances in all legal contexts.
GeekRad comes up with an amazing catch:
https://twitter.com/RadGeekpartduex/status/1021569598850662400
Here is what PBS reported in 2014:
“U.S. intelligence officials are planning a sweeping system of electronic monitoring that would tap into government, financial and other databases to scan the behavior of many of the 5 million federal employees with secret clearances, current and former officials told The Associated Press.
The system is intended to identify rogue agents, corrupt officials and leakers, and draws on a Defense Department model under development for more than a decade, according to officials and documents reviewed by the AP.
Intelligence officials have long wanted a computerized system that could continuously monitor employees, in part to prevent cases similar to former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden. His disclosures bared secretive U.S. surveillance operations…
“What we need is a system of continuous evaluation where when someone is in the system and they’re cleared initially, then we have a way of monitoring their behavior, both their electronic behavior on the job as well as off the job,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress last month.
Clapper provided lawmakers with few details but said the proposed system would extend “across the government,” drawing on “six or seven data streams.” Monitoring of employees at some agencies could begin as early as September and be fully operational across the government by September 2016. The price tag, Clapper conceded, “is going to be costly.”…
PBS passage ends
DefenseOne reported in 2017 that continuous monitoring is now in place, writing: “One result of heightened concerns is that the Defense Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are relying more on continuous monitoring to detect insider threats and for the periodic re-investigations of current employees and contractors.”
No wonder James Clapper was so interested in monitoring members of the federal government.
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