Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 current and former government officials

Source: Associated Press

POLITICS
Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 current and former government officials

BY ERIC TUCKER, AAMER MADHANI AND MATTHEW LEE
Updated 5:35 PM EDT, August 19, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to revoke the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials in the latest act of retribution targeting public servants in the federal government’s intelligence community.

A memo posted online by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, accuses the targeted officials of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance partisan goals, as well as failure to safeguard classified information and “failure to adhere to professional analytic tradecraft standards.”

Many of the officials who were singled out left the government years ago and served in a broad range of roles, including in senior positions and lower-profile roles far from the public eye. Some have been openly critical of Trump and some worked on matters that have long provoked his ire, including the intelligence community assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election on Trump’s behalf, or have openly criticized him.

The action is part of a broader Trump administration campaign to wield the levers of government against perceived adversaries. It reflects his continued distrust of intelligence officials from prior Democratic administrations and risks chilling dissenting voices from within the national security community.

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