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This is not the most important recent Trump attack on free speech, but the Kremlin’s top person at National Intelligence pulling the security clearances of yet more critics of Trump is still a highly disturbing example of viewpoint-based intimidation:
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Monday a security clearance review that resulted in the revocations of security clearances for dozens of current and former officials.
Gabbard said in a social media post that the security clearance purge targeted top aides to former President Joe Biden, former intelligence personnel who called a 2020 effort to expose information from Hunter Biden’s laptop “disinformation,” and some who were involved in legal cases against President Trump.
“I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden ‘disinformation’ letter,” Gabbard wrote. “The President’s Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden.”
The revocations are the latest in a campaign that began shortly after Mr. Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration to punish and cut off access to a broad swath of people who the president alleges “weaponized” the nation’s court systems against him.
This effort has included revocations of security clearance for staff at law firms that contracted with former special counsel Jack Smith and others who advocated for cases against Mr. Trump, such as attorney Andrew Weissmann — who was part of the team led by Robert Mueller that investigated alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election — and Mark Zaid, an attorney who previously represented a whistleblower connected to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment.
Some of the law firms are already getting the intended message.
*Speaking of useful idiots, MAGA Taibbi expresses his enthusiastic support for the unconstitutional imposition of austerity and the destruction of the administrative state:
Matt Taibbi supports Musk and DOGE. "I do think this is the only thing you can do. You have to just absolutely devastate these agencies and then rebuild them. And Musk is probably the right person to do that, because that's who he is, he's a firer of people."
[image or embed]— Post-Left Watch (@postleftwatch.bsky.social) March 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Elon defenestrated him, but he’ll still kiss his ass because after all they have a shared political worldview.