have a lot of publicity when they weren t allowed in. it was a tough week. the president is getting ready to leave on an extended vacation tomorrow in his resort in new jersey, and a lot of people are saying why did it happen now tomorrow to his resort in new jersey, and a lot of people are saying why did it happen now because next week is the date you mentioned that dan coats is leaving and sue gordon chose to leave on that day, knowing she was not going to get the top job or not even get the acting top job. jeremy, given your experience at the cia, at the pentagon, talk about this phrase, i keep using, institutional memory. it s true in government, television networks, private companies to quote the commercial. it s people who know a thing or two because they have seen a thing or two. and in the intel business it seems to me that would be pretty important. yeah, the coin of the realm in the intelligence community is the expertise.
president s motivation being called into question by his critics? it s one of the challenges. they talk about motivations rather than the actual conduct. the president has every reason and right in this case to question why these people still have clearances if they have no need. eric: some would say they can get advice and rely on their experience, institutional memory. this is important and let s understand, one, you can give advice based on history without a clearance and you can review your notes when you did something. but a go-forward clearance implies new material. if there is no need that won t happen. one of the challenges if someone walks in the situation room, the president of the united states is there and he wants to read them into information for national security reasons, he can do so. the so-called clearance process is much more about the general and routine access to information and trust.
does their institutional memory suddenly fall out of their ears? it doesn t. if their advice, if their counsel is requested by their successor in this administration, i can guarantee you, judge, nobody wants to ask john brennan s advice because he vote you had to are the communist in 1976 and is he still doing the work of putin. if they want to talk to him, they can invite him back. he can sit in a scif he can tell you back in 1980 whatever the clearance is irrelevant to the question of institutional memory. tucker: tom fitton, i will go to you, you are fighting for information. hillary clinton exposed classified email. that was according to james comey.. orchid according to romanian hacker guccifer. why is she still walking around with security clearances and why isn t she