President Donald Trump says his administration will move to suspend the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national security adviser John Bolton.
Trump took the action after the former officials said in 2020 that leaks from Hunter Biden laptop could be "a Russian information operation."
Washington — President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Trump plans to suspend security clearances of former intelligence officials who wrote an infamous letter about Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election.
The action is an early indication of Trump’s determination to exact retribution on perceived adversaries and is the latest point of tension between Trump and an intelligence community of which he has been openly disdainful.
The letters signatories include - former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Former CIA Director Michael Hayden, former US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, former CIA Director John Brennan.
Bolton departed the first Trump admin in 2019 and has continued to require Secret Service protection due to threats from Iran.
Donald Trump is set to issue a number of orders reversing Joe Biden's policies, kickstarting his second-term agenda after the inauguration.
The 51 Spies Who Lied, dismissing The Post’s 2020 scoop on Hunter Biden’s laptop, simply cannot be trusted with access to classified government info — but so do many others.
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton expressed disappointment after President Donald Trump revoked his Secret Service protection just hours into his second term. Bolton, who has faced ongoing threats from Iran due to his hardline foreign policy stance,