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Biden Administration Sued Over Scheme To Revoke Trump Q Security Clearance

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President Donald J. Trump is presented with a 10th Combat Aviation Brigade challenge coin following an air assault and gun rain demonstration at Fort Drum, New York, on August 13. The demonstration was part of President Trump's visit to the 10th Mountain Division (LI) to sign the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019, which increases the Army's authorized active-duty end strength by 4,000 enabling us to field critical capabilities in support of the National Defense Strategy. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Thomas Scaggs) 180813-A-TZ475-010

The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch reports they filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy for “records about the retroactive termination of former President Donald Trump’s security clearance and/or access to classified information.”

Judicial Watch reports the lawsuit “cites Trump’s January 12, 2024, motion to compel discovery in his criminal prosecution in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, in which the former president asserts that DOE attempted to terminate his security clearance retroactively after his June 2023 indictment by Special Counsel Jack Smith.”

“It looks like the Department of Energy is trying to manufacture a criminal case,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “What are they hiding?”

Judicial Watch reports the lawsuit “points to the February 2024 response to Trump’s January 2024 motion in which Smith acknowledges the existence of a June 2023 memorandum prepared by an Energy Department official regarding the security clearance.”

“The Special Counsel’s office describes the memorandum’s contents and asserts that it had produced the record to Trump,” Judicial Watch reports. “Smith also acknowledges requesting and receiving additional ‘responsive’ records from DOE, including ‘approximately 30 pages of records and eight emails.’ Smith asserts that he was ‘now producing’ the 30 pages to Trump and withholding the eight emails.”

“Trump’s lawyers suggest in the January 2024 motion to compel discovery that Trump had a high-level security clearance as recently as 2023,” Judicial Watch notes.

“Lawyers for Trump say a government document from June 2023 still listed him with a “Q” clearance from the DOE. The document was dated a few weeks after prosecutors indicted Trump in the classified documents case,” Judicial Watch reports. “A ‘Q’ clearance refers to a type of security clearance handled by the Department of Energy, which holds classified information focused largely on nuclear secrets.”

Judicial Watch reports it “filed the lawsuit after the Energy Department failed to comply with a January 18, 2024, FOIA request for its records and communications concerning retroactively terminating Trump’s security clearance and/or access to classified information.”

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Unfortunately fraudulently elected Biden & the Democrat communist,criminal illegal alien coddling, pedophile embracing demonic party, would love to take Trump’s security away so they can attempt to kill him, like the entire “Clinton murder to silence whistleblowers”. Weaponized agenda requires to silenceTruth especially,their own corrupted people when it was time for them people to have a change of heart and spill their guts about the Muslim extremist non- legal citizen Obama presidency, and the Biden “BIG GUY” crime family of classified secrets for Chinese money agenda under a Democrat treasonous, tyrannical,communist bribed pay to play agenda,these traitors & murderers will kill anyone to not expose their satanic crimes against humanity, just like they murdered Vince Foster, Epstein,and a half a dozen other people who never in their life even mentioned suicide but mysteriously wound up committing suicide in the strangest ways with no public investigations or warnings, ,on the other hand if anything happens to America’s Trump this weaponized globalist, communist tyranical Democrat ritual baby murdering party party of demons will probably be wiped off the face of the Earth by the over 7 million stolen vote cheated election voters who have been under attack since this planned fraudulent un-investigated election scam,protected & ignored by weaponized demonic three lettered luciferian globalist agencies decided to betray & commit bio weapon attacks on its innocent citizens,

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