Lawfare Archive: Brad Moss on Presidential Power and Security Clearances
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🗓️ 28 January 2023
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From August 18, 2018: The President of the United States this week stripped the former CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance in a dramatic White House statement by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The White House is threatening more adverse security clearance actions against presidential critics, and former senior security officials are outraged. Benjamin Wittes sat down Friday afternoon with Bradley Moss, who represents people in security clearance revocation processes, to discuss the president's move, how different it is from a normal security clearance action, and what we can expect if a lawsuit develops.
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| 1:04.4 | I'm John Emmons, Internal LawFair, with an episode from the LawFair Archive for January |
| 1:08.5 | 28, 2023. For today's Archive episode, the light of the recent recovery of allegedly |
| 1:13.8 | improperly stored classified materials at the homes and offices of President Joe Biden |
| 1:18.3 | and former Vice President Mike Pence, I chose an episode from August 2019. In the episode, |
| 1:23.3 | Benjamin Wittis sat down with Bradley Moss, an attorney who represents clients and security |
| 1:27.4 | clearance replication processes to discuss the Trump administration's announcement at the |
| 1:31.1 | time that John Brennan, former CIA director and outspoken critic of the President Trump |
| 1:35.9 | would be stripped of his security clearance. Wittis and Moss discuss the unprecedented |
| 1:39.7 | nature of Trump's move and the broader legal picture at hand in security clearance cases. |
| 1:54.1 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast August 18, 2018. The President of the |
| 2:02.9 | United States this week stripped the former CIA director John Brennan of his security |
| 2:09.9 | clearance in a dramatic White House statement by the press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. |
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