The sheer number of retired senior intelligence officials and spies rebuking the president can be described like this: An avalanche. https://politi.co/2BiqYPg
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They don’t keep the clearance so they can continue to get classified information — they don’t keep getting that info. They keep their clearance so if the need arises, they can be called back for consultations and folks at their agency are able to discuss sensitive situations.
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Precisely. They are the institutional memory of the intelligence services. If a crisis comes up for which information about why certain decisions were made in the past and how they relate to a crisis now, it's good to go to the source, those who made the decisions.
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