Tonight, in his first night again within the Oval Workplace, President Trump signed a slew of Government Orders and commuted the sentences of 14 Jan 6 hostages and pardoned all of the remaining political prisoners from the protests on the US Capitol.
He withdrew the US from the World Well being Group.
He reversed a plethora of Joe Biden’s Government Orders, together with the Equal Employment Alternative Fee’s “Selling Entry to Voting” EO 14019, which allowed all federal businesses to be utilized basically as voter registration drives.
However maybe probably the most vital EOs, moreover the pardoning of 1500 J6ers, is the “Holding Former Government Officials Accountable For Election Interference and Improper Disclosure of Sensitive Governmental Information.”
The order highlights the 51 former intel officers who coordinated with the Biden marketing campaign to recommend that the Hunter Biden laptop computer was “part of a Russian disinformation marketing campaign.” The letter was in response to the New York Submit article written by Miranda Devine that led to widespread censorship on Twitter, now X, Fb, YouTube that may get you banned for merely mentioning the article in some instances.
Among the officers that have been signatories to that letter held safety clearances and maintained ongoing contractual relationships with the CIA. In keeping with the EO, senior CIA officers have been conscious of the contents of the letter after it was submitted to the CIA Prepublication Classification. It was later discovered that the FBI at the moment had possession of the laptop computer and had validated its authenticity.
From the Order:
Federal policymakers should be capable of depend on evaluation performed by the Intelligence Group and be assured that it’s correct, crafted with professionalism, and free from politically motivated engineering to have an effect on political outcomes in the US. The signatories willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Group to govern the political course of and undermine our democratic establishments. This fabrication of the imprimatur of the Intelligence Group to suppress data important to the American folks throughout a Presidential election is an egregious breach of belief harking back to a 3rd world nation. And now the religion of People in all different patriotic intelligence professionals who’re sworn to guard the Nation has been imperiled.
The Government Order additionally highlights former Nationwide Safety Advisor John Bolton’s memoir he printed “for financial achieve” after he was terminated from the Administration 2019. The memoir was “rife with delicate data drawn from his time in authorities” and “created a grave danger that categorised materials was publicly uncovered.”
The Order revokes the clearances of any lively or present safety clearances of these “engaged in deceptive and inappropriate political coordination with the 2020 Biden marketing campaign and John Bolton.
The checklist of these whose clearances have been revoked embody James Clapper, Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and Michael Morell.
It additionally leaves open the potential of additional actions:
Inside 90 days of this order, the Director of Nationwide Intelligence, in session with the Director of the Central Intelligence Company, shall submit a report back to the President via the Nationwide Safety Advisor that particulars:
-any extra inappropriate exercise that occurred inside the Intelligence Group, by anybody contracted by the Intelligence Group or by anybody who held a safety clearance, associated to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officers;
-any disciplinary motion—together with the termination of safety clearances—that needs to be taken in opposition to anybody who engaged in inappropriate conduct associated to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officers.
The final one might implicate officers that have been particularly a part of the Biden marketing campaign in 2020, most notably Antony Blinken, who was straight concerned within the orchestration of the letter in response to the Durham report. Michael Morell, the previous CIA Deputy Director, testified that Blinken reached out to him on October 17, 2020 to debate the laptop computer story, which Morell claimed set the occasions in movement.
Blinken denied having any involvement and instructed FOX Information, “It wasn’t my concept, didn’t ask for it, didn’t solicit it.”
Right here is the complete textual content of the EO:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Structure and the legal guidelines of the US of America, it’s hereby ordered:
Part 1. Objective. Within the closing weeks of the 2020 Presidential marketing campaign, not less than 51 former intelligence officers coordinated with the Biden marketing campaign to difficulty a letter discrediting the reporting that President Joseph R. Biden’s son had deserted his laptop computer at a pc restore enterprise. Signatories of the letter falsely steered that the information story was a part of a Russian disinformation marketing campaign.
Earlier than being issued, the letter was despatched to the CIA Prepublication Classification Evaluate Board, the physique sometimes assigned to formally consider the delicate nature of paperwork previous to publication. Senior CIA officers have been made conscious of the contents of the letter, and a number of signatories held clearances on the time and maintained ongoing contractual relationships with the CIA.
Federal policymakers should be capable of depend on evaluation performed by the Intelligence Group and be assured that it’s correct, crafted with professionalism, and free from politically motivated engineering to have an effect on political outcomes in the US. The signatories willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Group to govern the political course of and undermine our democratic establishments. This fabrication of the imprimatur of the Intelligence Group to suppress data important to the American folks throughout a Presidential election is an egregious breach of belief harking back to a 3rd world nation. And now the religion of People in all different patriotic intelligence professionals who’re sworn to guard the Nation has been imperiled.
Nationwide safety can be broken by the publication of categorised data. Former Nationwide Safety Advisor John R. Bolton printed a memoir for financial achieve after he was terminated from his White Home place in 2019. The guide was rife with delicate data drawn from his time in authorities. The memoir’s reckless remedy of delicate data undermined the flexibility of future presidents to request and procure candid recommendation on issues of nationwide safety from their employees. Publication additionally created a grave danger that categorised materials was publicly uncovered.
To treatment these abuses of the general public belief, this Order directs the revocation of any lively or present safety clearances held by: (i) the previous intelligence officers who engaged in deceptive and inappropriate political coordination with the 2020 Biden presidential marketing campaign; and (ii) John R. Bolton.
Sec. 2. Coverage. (a) It’s the coverage of the US to make sure that the Intelligence Group not be engaged in partisan politics or in any other case utilized by a U.S. political marketing campaign for electioneering functions. The time period “Intelligence Group” has the that means given the time period in part 3003 of title 50, United States Code.
(b) It’s the coverage of the US that people who maintain government-issued safety clearances mustn’t use their clearance standing to affect U.S. elections.
(c) It’s the coverage of the US that categorised data not be publicly disclosed in memoirs, particularly these printed for private financial achieve.
Sec. 3. Implementation. (a) Efficient instantly, the Director of Nationwide Intelligence, in session with the Director of the Central Intelligence Company, shall revoke any present or lively clearances held by the next people:
(1) James R. Clapper Jr.
(2) Michael V. Hayden
(3) Leon E. Panetta
(4) John O. Brennan
(5) C. Thomas Fingar
(6) Richard H. Ledgett Jr.
(7) John E. McLaughlin
(8) Michael J. Morell
(9) Michael G. Vickers
(10) Douglas H. Sensible
(11) Nicholas J. Rasmussen
(12) Russell E. Travers
(13) Andrew Liepman
(14) John H. Moseman
(15) Larry Pfeiffer
(16) Jeremy B. Bash
(17) Rodney Snyder
(18) Glenn S. Gerstell
(19) David B. Buckley
(20) Nada G. Bakos
(21) James B. Bruce
(22) David S. Cariens
(23) Janice Cariens
(24) Paul R. Kolbe
(25) Peter L. Corsell
(26) Roger Z. George
(27) Steven L. Corridor
(28) Kent Harrington
(29) Don Hepburn
(30) Timothy D. Kilbourn
(31) Ronald A. Marks
(32) Jonna H. Mendez
(33) Emile Nakhleh
(34) Gerald A. O’Shea
(35) David Priess
(36) Pamela Purcilly
(37) Marc Polymeropoulos
(38) Chris Savos
(39) Nick Shapiro
(40) John Sipher
(41) Stephen B. Slick
(42) Cynthia Strand
(43) Greg Tarbell
(44) David Terry
(45) Gregory F. Treverton
(46) John D. Tullius
(47) David A. Vanell
(48) Winston P. Wiley
(49) Kristin Wooden
(50) John R. Bolton
Two signatories, Patty Patricia A. Brandmaeir and Brett Davis, are deceased.
(b) Inside 90 days of this order, the Director of Nationwide Intelligence, in session with the Director of the Central Intelligence Company, shall submit a report back to the President via the Nationwide Safety Advisor that particulars:
(i) any extra inappropriate exercise that occurred inside the Intelligence Group, by anybody contracted by the Intelligence Group or by anybody who held a safety clearance, associated to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officers;
(ii) suggestions to forestall the Intelligence Group or anybody who works for or inside it from inappropriately influencing home elections; and
(iii) any disciplinary motion—together with the termination of safety clearances—that needs to be taken in opposition to anybody who engaged in inappropriate conduct associated to the letter signed by the 51 former intelligence officers.
Sec. 4. Common Provisions. (a) Nothing on this order shall be construed to impair or in any other case have an effect on:
(i) the authority granted by legislation to an govt division or company, or the top thereof; or
(ii) the features of the Director of the Workplace of Administration and Finances referring to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be applied in step with relevant legislation and topic to the provision of appropriations.
(c) This order will not be supposed to, and doesn’t, create any proper or profit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at legislation or in fairness by any social gathering in opposition to the US, its departments, businesses, or entities, its officers, workers, or brokers, or every other individual.
THE WHITE HOUSE, January 20, 2025.
