U.S. President Donald Trump has canceled security clearances for former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, several members of the Biden administration and other prominent Democrats.
The move comes after Mr. Trump announced last month that he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s security permit.
He also revoked security permits for the entire Biden family, the president said in a memo on Friday.
“I have confirmed that the following personal access to confidential information is no longer in the national interest,” Trump’s memo read.
The memorandum applies to “receiving confidential briefings, such as the president’s daily briefings, and with the help of a naming individual’s tenure in Congress.”
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former Republican lawmakers Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger also included those who lost their security clearances – and Fiona Hill, the first former Russian adviser to the Trump administration.
Other names are: Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann and Alexander Vindman.
Trump earlier proposed security clearances from more than four former intelligence officials who accused them of interfering in Biden in the 2020 election, but provided no evidence.
In 2021, Biden – then-President – banned his defeated rival Trump from getting intelligence briefings for “unstable behavior.”
