{"id":11359,"date":"2018-08-22T13:57:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T20:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2018-08-22T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T20:57:19","slug":"the-reexamination-of-security-clearances-was-long-overdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-reexamination-of-security-clearances-was-long-overdue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reexamination of Security Clearances Was Long Overdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p>Much has been written about former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd\u2019s recent unhinged outburst on CNN against Paris Dennard for the latter\u2019s credible suggestion that many ex-officials have monetized the fact that they have retained their security clearances.<\/p>\n<p>Dennard was suggesting that those with security clearances, with a wink and nod, sometimes bolster their partisan expertise by alluding to shadowy knowledge not supposedly known to the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, Mudd himself seemed to have already proven that point, a year earlier, when he sounded \u201cin the know\u201d in expressing his confidence that President Trump was in some sort of physical danger from the intelligence community.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2017, Mudd warned a stunned Jake Tapper on CNN that \u201cthe government is going to kill this guy [President Trump].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/security-clearance-reexamination-long-overdue\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Much has been written about former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd\u2019s recent unhinged outburst on CNN against Paris Dennard for the latter\u2019s credible suggestion that many ex-officials have monetized the fact that they have retained their security clearances. Dennard was suggesting that those with security clearances, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1159,1151,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Xd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11713,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/learning-to-love-the-deep-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":11359,"position":0},"title":"Learning to Love the Deep State","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In the 1970s, the military officer corps and the top ranks of the CIA, DOJ, and FBI were, in the eyes of the Left, synonymous with\u00a0Seven Days in May\u2014 and\u00a0Manchurian Candidate\u2013like conspiracies. 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