BLUF:[Red State] MIC 🎤 DROP: @PressSec On Leaking classified info:
"If you guys have any real concerns about leaking look around this room, you guys are the ones that publish classified information and put our national security at risk"!
Exactly right.
Ultimately the White House gets to choose who works there. Not the FBI. And the sudden concern of the media, in particular the White House press corps, over publishing damaging leaks of national security information is charming in its utter duplicity.
But this is not about Porter. And it isn’t about security clearances. It is about trying to force John Kelly out of his job. All Porter and the security clearances are is a club to beat Kelly and the administration with.
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