{"id":29925,"date":"2018-07-23T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=29925"},"modified":"2018-07-23T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:16:23","slug":"this-is-what-dictators-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/this-is-what-dictators-do\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what dictators do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/rand-paul-says-hell-ask-trump-to-revoke-former-cia-director-john-brennans-security-clearance\/2018\/07\/23\/8eb11ccc-8e7c-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html?utm_term=.42af56c595a4\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Trump plans to revoke the security clearances of &#8230; former CIA director John Brennan; former FBI director James B. Comey; former CIA director Michael V. Hayden; former national security adviser Susan E. Rice; former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr.; and former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president is exploring these mechanisms to remove security clearances because they\u2019ve politicized and, in some cases, actually monetized their public service and their security clearances in making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia or being influenced by Russia,\u201d Sanders told reporters at a regular press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cThe fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges provides inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move came shortly after Trump met with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who said earlier Monday that he planned to ask the president to revoke Brennan\u2019s clearance. The former Obama administration CIA director last week used the word \u201ctreasonous\u201d to describe Trump\u2019s performance at his summit with Russian President Vladi\u00admir Putin in Helsinki, saying it showed he was \u201cwholly in the pocket of Putin.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Post: President Trump plans to revoke the security clearances of &#8230; former CIA director John Brennan; former FBI director James B. Comey; former CIA director Michael V. Hayden; former national security adviser Susan E. Rice; former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr.; and former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/this-is-what-dictators-do\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is what dictators do<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5026],"tags":[1200,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sanders.png?fit=287%2C252&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7MF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29927,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29925\/revisions\/29927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}