{"id":792,"date":"2025-03-22T14:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/03\/22\/trump-revokes-security-clearances-for-biden-harris-clinton-and-more-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:12:16","slug":"trump-revokes-security-clearances-for-biden-harris-clinton-and-more-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/03\/22\/trump-revokes-security-clearances-for-biden-harris-clinton-and-more-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, Clinton and More &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"site-content\">\n<article id=\"story\">\n<div id=\"top-wrapper\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/#after-top\">SKIP ADVERTISEMENT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The tally of names read like President Trump\u2019s enemies list, from Letitia James to Liz Cheney.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\">\n<div data-testid=\"imageContainer-children-Image\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton speak and Bill Clinton looks down. \" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/21\/multimedia\/21trump-news-security-clearances-bqzm\/21trump-news-security-clearances-bqzm-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\"   decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/picture><\/div><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-ImageCaption\"><span>Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton were just two of Donald J. Trump\u2019s opponents on the list. <\/span><span><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Erin Schaff\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><time datetime=\"2025-03-22T08:11:20-04:00\"><span>Published March 21, 2025<\/span><span>Updated March 22, 2025, <span>8:11 a.m. ET<\/span><\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section name=\"articleBody\">\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<p>President Trump issued a memo late Friday night rescinding security clearances and access to classified information for a slew of erstwhile opponents including Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and \u201cany other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump had said back in February that he planned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/02\/08\/us\/trump-administration-news\/trump-biden-security-clearances?smid=url-share\" title>remove his predecessor\u2019s access to classified intelligence briefings<\/a>. It was payback \u2014 Mr. Biden had done the same to him after he left office in the days after the Jan 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of figures who\u2019ve tangled with Mr. Trump at one point or another were named in Friday\u2019s memo. Some had already been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tulsi-gabbard-revokes-security-clearances\/\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned by Trump officials<\/a> as people who would soon have their security clearances revoked, so their inclusion in Friday\u2019s memo did not come as a shock. But taken together, the catalog of names read like an enemies list.<\/p>\n<p>There were New York\u2019s top two law enforcement officials, Letitia James (the New York attorney general) and Alvin L. Bragg (Manhattan\u2019s district attorney), both of whom took on Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<p>There were prominent characters from the first impeachment brought against Mr. Trump in 2019, when he was shown to have tried to strong-arm Ukraine into helping him dig up dirt on Mr. Biden. Names included in Friday\u2019s memo: Fiona Hill, a top foreign policy expert who testified during the<span>  <\/span>impeachment hearings; Alexander Vindman, a lieutenant colonel who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/11\/08\/us\/politics\/alexander-vindman-ukraine-transcript.html\" title>also testified<\/a>; and Norman Eisen, a lawyer who oversaw that impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>And there were the only two Republicans who served on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also direct all executive department and agency heads to revoke unescorted access to secure United States government facilities from these individuals,\u201d Mr. Trump\u2019s memo stated. \u201cThis action includes, but is not limited to, receipt of classified briefings, such as the President\u2019s Daily Brief, and access to classified information held by any member of the intelligence community by virtue of the named individuals\u2019 previous tenure in the Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to office, Mr. Trump has used memos like the one he put out Friday to thwack at people who have tried to hold him accountable or who have otherwise crossed him. The memos have been wide-ranging in scope. Earlier this week, he put out one that pulled security protections for Mr. Biden\u2019s adult children, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/17\/us\/politics\/trump-biden-hunter-ashley-secret-service.html\" title>Ashley and Hunter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Mr. Trump nixed security clearances for Antony J. Blinken, the former secretary of state, and Jake Sullivan, the former national security adviser (both of whom were named again in Friday\u2019s memo).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<p>Mr. Trump has also stripped the security detail of his own former aides. Within hours of taking office, he targeted John Bolton, his former national security adviser turned enemy. Mr. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-pompeo-security-iran.html\" title>later did the same<\/a> to Mike Pompeo, his former secretary of state, and a former aide, Brian Hook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"bottom-wrapper\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/#after-bottom\">SKIP ADVERTISEMENT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT The tally of names read like President Trump\u2019s enemies list, from Letitia James to Liz Cheney. Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton were just two of Donald J. Trump\u2019s opponents on the list. 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