Senator Rand PaulVerified account

As soon as anyone leaves any job in the public or private sector ALL security clearances MUST & should be revoked not solely for the former employer's safety & security but for that of the former employee too! I'm shocked & angry to hear this is not SOP in our government! WTF?!

It's so they can consult with their successors and Congress when necessary.

If & when they ever work for the government again, they can reapply for the appropriate clearances; as is Standard Operating Procedure in all other entities across the board globally. If you once rented a room in your home to someone, would you want them to retain a key forever?

Seriously? You don't understand this? They are NOT going to briefings. If they are getting CURRENT info it's being leaked from the WH. What they use the clearances for is to be able to consult with their REPLCEMENTS about past cases or to testify in front of Congress.

That's not the same as going back to work for the government at a later date.

Or so they can have classified info leaked to them w/o the offender getting into trouble for it. Absolutly NO NEED for clearance...Clarence!

Rescinding Security Clearances that are no longer required on a daily basis, would certainly help narrow the pool of possible leakers!

No one can receive classified information without a need to know. Clearance or not.

So what do we do if those same individuals are needed to consult on a serious issue? Just give it back?And how is this making us safer? These people will still criticize the president if they choose....so hows this an adult thing to Do? And why are you promoting this?

Why do you think their consultations are effective? They actually make the problems not solve them. All of these people lied about Iraq WMDs as an example.

Yea but that isnt why they are taking said clearance.Not to mention if thats what we're doing we should be rallying against a lot of Congress and the Senate.Again we aren't. I'm not someone who thinks our govt is flawless,ex Iran/Contra and Rockerfella drug laws.But this is petty

I don't care why they are taking their clearance. These are really bad people that should never have had one. Rand tried to keep some of these people from getting in to these agencies so he is very consistent on this. People have pretended they were OK for many years. Bad Actors

I'll accept your position, if you'll agree @RandPaul has made no comments about various cabinet appointees of this admin caught in ludicrous acts of ethical misconduct. Nor made any noise about the lack of directive from 45 to actual take on election meddling.

I am 56, I have seen a lot of bad cabinet members but I never saw that I knew of cabinet members using the Deep State Spy machine to get rid of political opponents with Opposition research. Most of them leaked to the press. They still are leaking. That's because they are cleared.

Again when fear runs through the American majority, they tend to do terrible things to the rights of not only others but themselves also. And you grew up not long after the McCarthy trials. You should know about what happens when fear mongering takes a hold of the electorate

Yeah it was all about Russia. That's why I don't get your protests. This is all Red Scare BS from the 50ties. I was born in 62. They killed the president back then for opposing the CIA and it's many blunders. Then put the CIA on the Warren commission by inserting fired CIA dir.

Revoking their clearances is important to keep these malcontents from discussing highly sensitive security issues with holdover employees. Those still there are looking for a sympathetic ear, and having Brennan involved is inappropriate and dangerous.

The hatred and vitriol exhibited by these former Obama administration officials is reason enough to remove their clearances. They shouldn't be playing politics with this info, or they should release the un-redacted info to all of us.

Perhaps with your 166 followers you can make comments like that. Not with me. B-bye