It's unprecedented. I've never heard of it -- a case of it. May have been, I just know about it, but in my 50 years in intelligence, never heard of such a case where the President got personally involved in somebody's clearance.
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I think the reason they were taken off the list was to provide an inducement or motivation for them to agree to some sort of ceasefire.
I think this reflects Russian insecurity. And it's almost like, Putin needs a rhetorical security blanket, of making threats, like this.
A stark reminder that the terrorist threat to this country hasn't gone away. We cannot take our eyes off this ball.
Well, no, it doesn't. And the fact that none of this makes sense, but most acutely, I think, nuclear-related information.
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