WASHINGTON – Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-VA) released the following statement after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard arbitrarily and unilaterally revoked security clearances of 37 current and former national security and intelligence officials:   

“Gabbard’s move to yank clearances from a seemingly random list of national security officials is a reckless abuse of the security clearance process and nothing more than another sad attempt to distract from the administration’s failure to release the Epstein files. National security should never be weaponized for political revenge. That’s why I have introduced bipartisan legislation that would explicitly prohibit exactly this kind of political abuse and ensure clearance decisions are based only on established criteria.”

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