'Barred access': Gabbard revokes security clearance for prominent officials and lawyers

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's director of national intelligence, announced Monday that she barred prominent government officials and attorneys from access to classified government information.

Gabbard posted to X that she did so at the directive of President Donald Trump, who announced his intention to revoke access to his "antagonists" last month, according to the New York Post.

"Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden 'disinformation' letter. The President's Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden," Gabbard wrote.

Zaid, an attorney who represented the CIA analyst "identified as the whistleblower in Trump’s impeachment in 2019 over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky" posted to social media after Gabbard's announcement, "Hmmm, so where are my due process protections? You are familiar with Executive Order 12,968, are you not? Still in effect!"

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In an exclusive interview with the Post in February, Trump said, “This is to take away every right they have [revoking security clearances] including they can’t go into [federal] buildings," Trump told The Post.

Reporter Miranda Devine wrote, "The president said they all will be given 'exactly the same' punishment as Biden and the Dirty 51 as part of his administration’s vow to hold government officials accountable for actions he regards as election interference or the mishandling of classified information."

Under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes — 34 in total — for trying to illegally influence the 2016 election by paying off adult film actor Stormy Daniels.

New York Attorney General Letitia James won convictions on civil fraud charges, and Trump was ordered to pay a staggering $355 million in penalties. Trump called both cases "election interference."

Lisa Monaco was Biden’s deputy attorney general who coordinated the Department of Justice response to the Jan. 6 riot, and Jake Sullivan was Biden’s former national security advisor and chief foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign.

Devine listed the other "antagonists" as "Andrew Weissman, the lead prosecutor in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russiagate investigation of Trump, who frequently maligns the former president in his role as an MNBC (sic) contributor...and Norm Eisen, special counsel to the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment."