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CALLER: I want to bring up the security clearances of Clapper, Brennan, and the rest of the cabal.<\/p>\nRUSH: Sandra in Reno, Nevada. You\u2019re next. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk with you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I want to bring up the security clearances of Clapper, Brennan, and the rest of the cabal.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. I really think they need to be revoked, if not yesterday, as soon as possible. And the reason for that is right now the Never Trumpers embedded inside our intelligence agencies are free to disseminate all the information they want to \u2019em because they own those clearances. I think if the clearances are revoked, feeding them information becomes a crime.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, that\u2019s accurate to say. My question is a little bit more basic: Why do they still have it? Now, I don\u2019t know what standard operating procedure is. Like after the Bush administration left Washington to be replaced by the Obama administration, how many of the national security intelligence people in the Bush team held on to their security clearance? How long…? Once you get it, do you always have it? Is it revoked after a certain period of time? These are things that I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
But when you look at Brennan and Clapper and Comey and you look at how they have been behaving… You\u2019re right. Clapper has been leaking like a sieve, and so has Brennan, and these people have access to information that is not supposed to be leaked. One of the biggest problems we\u2019ve had since the election has been the intelligence community and the FBI\/DOJ just leaking things left and right, things that they know because they have security clearances.<\/p>\n
So common sense to me says revoke them! Because they have shown that they can\u2019t be trusted with the information. It\u2019s no more complicated than that, to me. Now, grab sound bite Nos. 12 and 13. We got Clapper reacting to this. Late yesterday afternoon on CNN\u2019s Newsroom, Brooke Baldwin, “They would like to revoke your security clearance, Mr. Clapper. How do you feel about that?”<\/p>\n
CLAPPER: For political reasons, uhhh, this is kind of a petty way of, uhhh, retribution, I suppose, for speaking out against the president, which I think on the part of the all of us, are born out of genuine concerns about President Trump.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You don\u2019t have “genuine concerns” about Trump. You have concerns that what you\u2019ve done is gonna be exposed and uncovered. Then Dana Bash said, “Have you made any money since leaving the office using your security clearance?”<\/p>\n
CLAPPER: Not directly the security clearance, but I guess, uhhh, you know, I have benefited from the 50 years of service both in the military and in civilian capacities in the intelligence community. I wrote a book about it, and, uhhh, I appear on, uh, this network, and it\u2019s, you know, by virtue of that experience. Well, a part of that, of course, is, of course, the eligibility or access to classified information. And so in a sense, yes, I\u2019ve benefited from that experience.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I would say so. I\u2019d say so. You ordered James Comey to tell Trump about the Trump dossier part with the golden showers, and Comey tells Trump. And then Comey comes out of the meeting, tells you that he told Trump, then you call CNN, and then CNN runs a story on it as though great shoe leather has uncovered some big secret and they get a big award for it. And all you guys did was leak it. You have profited handsomely from CNN alone. The guy\u2019s on CNN every 20 minutes! He\u2019s being paid as one of these analysts by CNN. I would think this is a no-brainer. Of course he\u2019s earning money from his security clearance. But even before you get there, there are ample reasons to revoke it, if there\u2019s any question about it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Clapper has said in other interviews that he still has his security clearance as a courtesy. Well, I don\u2019t know enough about security clearances to know whether that\u2019s unusual or not. But I would think if you\u2019ve got an outgoing administration that\u2019s tried to spy on you, you just get rid of \u2019em, cancel everybody\u2019s clearance and be done with \u2019em.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Michael in San Marcos, Texas. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I wanted to call to say how grateful and thankful I am for what you do in helping us understand what these people, the left, the media and the Democrats, what their agenda is and how they\u2019re going about it. You expose it so well. And I\u2019ve often imagined you in a courtroom exposing these people. They wouldn\u2019t have a chance.<\/p>\n
I told your call screener that I wanted to comment on this release that Mr. Trump is contemplating revoking the clearances of these people. I don\u2019t think he should announce that. I\u2019ve been waiting since day one for him to go in there and just start firing these people. Why would somebody want to work with people who are trying to go against him? I don\u2019t understand him.<\/p>\n
I do support the man 111%. There\u2019s nothing — and I heard you while on hold, I heard you talking about Trump supporters and how they\u2019re trying to pull us away from him, pull us away from Trump. Listen, Mr. Trump could land his helicopter in my front yard and cut my trees down and I wouldn\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, it saves you having to hire somebody to do it.<\/p>\n