Well, actually, this is not the first time that Republican Senator Susan Collins and I have put this in. It goes actually back to the first Trump administration, when there was concern that The Trump administration would try to politicize security clearances. We saw them taking away security clearances from folks in the Obama administration, former leaders in the intel community like John Brennan, the CIA director, and then we even saw them. (01:10–01:15)
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