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President Donald Trump is granting temporary, six-month security clearances to incoming White House officials who have not completed the vetting process typically required before being allowed to access highly-classified information, blaming a backlog of background checks that he helped cause.

It’s a move national security lawyers inside and outside the government say is unusual, if not unprecedented.

One former US official who worked on clearance issues in the Biden and first Trump administrations raised concerns that foreign intelligence partners, on which the US relies for much of its intelligence work, will curtail what they share with the US, out of fear that their sources may be put in danger.

“They will start restricting their intelligence,” the official said. “If someone on the other end here has not been vetted, why would they share that?”

Trump made the move in one of the dozens of executive orders issued on his first day in office, immediately giving high-level clearances called TS/SCI to incoming officials, including some who have never been vetted for potential security vulnerabilities.

“It’s such a dangerous thing,” the former official said. “To forego that process is stupid.”

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago

Foreign intelligence partners are going to limit what they share anyway, because they know Trump will sell it to the highest bidder.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

foreign intelligence partners ... will curtail what they share with the US

Wouldn't be surprised if domestic intelligence agencies start curtailing what they share. The fact is that a TS/SCI isn't that hard to get, if you aren't a complete fuck up. And even folks who have been a complete fuck up in the past can still get one, if they stopped being a fuck up long enough ago. That many of the folks in Trump's cabinet would be denied a clearance speaks to the level of fuck uppery that they have been up to recently. Gonna be an interesting four years with the Felon in Chief.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

CIA if you're hearing this...do CIA things.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a lose/lose situation. Any other time I want the FBI and the CIA to be answering to the civilian president.

It's hard to put a lid this genie back in the bottle, but it seems like this is enough of an emergency to pop it anyway.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Weren't the CIA kind of implied to be a rogue agency like 50 years ago? Genies been out of the bottle for a while.

[–] Shawdow194@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Don't worry - Trumps already taking care of the CIA (look it's so obvious even... blech.. Fox.. knows)

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty frank talk from that official

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I guess since they're no longer an official now, it doesn't matter to them.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I call it “Rotational Tom Clancy Corpse O-thermal Energy” personally.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"Am thanking you for service, tovarich."