President Donald Trump has prohibited his former national security adviser John Bolton and the intelligence officials who called the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation from having unescorted access to secure federal buildings.
Officials have confirmed the existence of the Jan. 29 cabinet memorandum, which builds on a Jan. 20 executive order from Trump removing the security clearances for those 49 officials and Bolton. Trump has also revoked security details for Bolton and his former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Mike Pompeo.
The 49 officials include James Clapper, who served as director of national intelligence during the Obama administration. It also includes former CIA directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and Michael Hayden. Brennan and Panetta both served in that role under President Barack Obama, while Hayden was CIA director for President George W. Bush and, very briefly, Obama....