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Trump Revokes Former CIA Chief’s Security Clearance

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08/16/2018

08/16/2018

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Trump Revokes Former CIA Chief’s Security Clearance

Top News: U.S. President Donald Trump announced that will strip former CIA Director John Brennan of his top secret security clearance, escalating a feud with one of his sharpest critics.

In a statement, Trump accused Brennan of “erratic” behavior and “increasingly frenzied” commentary and said he would also review the security clearances of a series of Obama-era national security officials, including former National Security Advisor Susan Rice and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.

Trump’s decision to strip Brennan of his clearance appears to be an unprecedented move that comes as the latest in a series of attacks of national security officials who have been involved in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Brennan ran the CIA in the run-up to the 2016 election and played a key role in the agency’s assessment of Russia’s campaign to boost Trump’s campaign.

On Thursday, Brennan responded to Trump’s move in opinion article, arguing that Trump’s repeated claims of “no collusion” with Russia are “hogwash.”

Trade: Low-level Chinese and American trade officials will resume talks later this month after discussions between the two sides broke down earlier this summer. The talks will occur in the United States, where a Chinese delegation led by Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen will meet with the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for international affairs, David Malpass.

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AFRICA

•  Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita secured a second term in office after winning 67 percent of the vote in a runoff election that the country’s opposition says was hampered by fraud and violence.

•  Zimbabwe’s constitutional court will consider a legal challenge by the country’s opposition to the outcome of the country’s recent presidential election.

•  The Ugandan music artist and politician known as Bobi Wine will reportedly go before a military court on treason charges.

AMERICAS

•  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva registered as a candidate for president, but serious questions remain about whether he will be allowed to contest the October election while behind bars.

•  A U.S. arms control official raised concerns about the “abnormal behavior” of a Russian satellite whose capabilities remain unknown.

•  U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials announced the formation of a joint unit to combat the shipment of opioids into the United States.

ASIA

•  The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan that left at least 34 people dead.

•  The Trump administration sanctioned Russian and Chinese companies facilitating illicit trade with North Korea.

•  A judge in Malaysia ruled that two women will go on trial for the murder of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother, rejecting arguments that the two women thought they were participating in a TV prank when they smeared the nerve agent VX on the man’s face.

EUROPE

•  London police identified the suspected driver of a vehicle that plowed into a barrier near Parliament.

•  Italian officials heaped blame on the company that manages the country’s highways following the collapse of a bridge in Genoa that left 39 people dead.

•  Austria reportedly rejected the asylum application of a homosexual Afghan teenager because he did not “walk, act, or dress” gay.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Qatar pledged $15 billion in support to the Turkish economy amid an intensifying stand-off with the United States that has triggered an economic crisis.

•  The White House called Turkey’s move to impose tariffs on American goods a “step in the wrong direction.”

•  Israel reopened the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza after curtailing the flow of goods into the territory after a period of clashes.

- By Elias Groll

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