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Liberal ABC and NBC were in a full-blown meltdown Monday night after the White House announced the President was looking to revoke the security clearances of six former Obama-era intelligence officials who they contend abused the privilege of retaining it after their tenure.
“The White House tonight is taking aim at several top-level national security officials who have been publicly critical of the President. Threatening to yank their security clearances,” warned NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt as he kicked off the program. “Stripping them of clearances, however, could be seen as an act of political retaliation by the President against his critics.”
The six former officials in question were former DNI James Clapper, former CIA directors John Brennan and Michael Hayden, former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and National Security Adviser Susan Rice. Both networks avoided accurately describing most of the people in question as Obama appointees.
NBC chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson, who described the White House’s actions as “Nixonian,” actually tried to downplay their connection to Obama. She argued that “most of the officials worked for both Democrats and Republicans…” ABC and NBC did note that Rice was from the Obama-era.
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