Outside the Beltway

For the second time in a week, reports indicate that the President intervened to get a family member a security clearance.

President Trump personally overrode the objections of security officials, the White House Counsel, and the Chief of Staff to make sure his son-in-law got a security clearance.

In what appears to be a move based purely on vindictiveness, President Trump has revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.

Based on what can only be described as pure vindictiveness, the President is apparently planning on revoking security clearances of former officials who have been outspoken against the Administration and its policies.

A long-overdue overhaul of the way the United States vets those who access classified information is underway.

The government contractor that conducted Edward Snowden’s background investigation faces criminal indictment.

Ruining the careers of sixteen percent of the innocent workforce strikes me as too high a price for catching eighty percent of the spies.