House Judiciary Committee made available two sets of documents. Tulsi Gabbard stripped security clearances from 37 current and former intelligence officials, described as a political purge prioritizing loyalty to Trump. Vinh Nguyen was among those removed; he allegedly pressured Tulsi's whistleblower to affirm 2017 ICA conclusions but had remained on active duty as a key NSA quantum computing contributor until his clearance revocation. The removals follow a broader pattern of personnel changes, reassignments, firings of FBI and intelligence experts, exposure of CIA recruits, and downgrading of programs addressing Russian influence.
On Tuesday, Tulsi Gabbard announced she was stripping the clearance of 37 current and former spooks, in a thinly veiled political purge. NYT provides background on some of the people Tulsi purged, including Vinh Nguyen, who was purged because he allegedly pressured Tulsi's so-called whistleblower to affirm conclusions in the 2017 ICA, but who had remained in active service as a crucial contributor to NSA's quantum computing efforts until this purge. This purge clearly places loyalty to Trump over America's most crucial intelligence efforts.
Add these 37 people to the long list of those who been purged in service of Trump's invented grievance about the 2016 election: Fire many of FBI's top Russian experts at the FBI. Retaliate against experts. Expose recent CIA recruits. Appointment of Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and John Ratcliffe as top spies, all of them Useful Idioms for Russia. Fire more of FBI's top Russian experts at FBI.
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