{"id":370725,"date":"2018-07-25T02:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T01:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/free-speech-attack-trump-eyes-pulling-obama-era-security-clearances\/"},"modified":"2018-07-25T02:39:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T01:39:14","slug":"free-speech-attack-trump-eyes-pulling-obama-era-security-clearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/free-speech-attack-trump-eyes-pulling-obama-era-security-clearances\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech Attack? Trump Eyes Pulling Obama-Era Security Clearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-31475\"><!-- .entry-header --><!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>President Trump is considering canceling the security clearances of certain senior intelligence officials extended as a courtesy when they retired. Former CIA chief John Brennan, who called Trump a traitor for meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly top on the list, are highly political former officials like James Clapper and Susan Rice. Opponents of the move claim it is an attack on these officials\u2019 \u201cfree speech\u201d rights. Are they missing the point? Also, was the FISA process abused by FBI officers when they made the case to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page? Tune in to today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sBckkGvlwtU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/mdm_uxErqR8\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is considering canceling the security clearances of certain senior intelligence officials extended as a courtesy when they retired. Former CIA chief John Brennan, who called Trump a traitor for meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly top on the list, are highly political former officials like James Clapper and Susan Rice. Opponents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}