President Donald Trump, in a memorandum on Friday night, rescinded existing security authorizations and access to classified information for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former vice president Kamala Harris and other officials.
“I have determined that it is no longer of national interest for the following people to access classified information,” says the executive memorandum. “Therefore, I address all the executive department and the agency that all additional measures take as necessary and in accordance with the existing law to revoke any active security authorization held by the aforementioned persons and immediately to terminate their access to the classified information.”
The representatives of Harris and Clinton did not immediately respond a request for comments on Friday night.
The memorandum also establishes that the appointed people, 15 in total, will not have access to classified information sessions or the ability to access the facilities of the US government. UU. Without a escort.
Others appointed in the board include former representative Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former national security advisor Jake Sullivan and New York Attorney General Letitia James. It also applies to any member of the Biden family.
Many of the people in Trump’s note already had their authorizations revoked this month by the director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
The State Department indicated in 2018 that Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential elections, made his security authorization withdraw that year, at his request. It is not clear if its authorization was reinstated later.
Trump said in February that he was cutting the access of former President Joe Biden to intelligence information.
Earlier this week, Trump said he was finishing the protection of the secret service for the two adult children of Biden: Hunter and Ashley Biden.
Among the first action Trump took in January was to rescind the security authorization of at least 50 former intelligence officials who signed a letter during the 2020 campaign, which suggests the content of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden had the “classic brands of a Russian information operation.”
