Report: Kelly Revoked Gorkas Security Clearance While He Was On Vacation
Source: Huff post
08/25/2017 11:39 pm ET
Having his security clearance revoked would have made it impossible for Gorka to continue in his White House job.
WASHINGTON Sebastian Gorka, the British-born deputy assistant to President Trump whose unsmiling, dark-bearded visage and plummy English accent made frequent appearances on political talk shows, left his post late Friday. The conservative web site The Federalist reported on Friday that Gorka resigned with a scathing letter accusing forces in the White House of working against Trumps agenda. However, a White House official told Yahoo News that Gorka did not leave of his own accord.
Sebastian Gorka did not resign, but I can confirm he no longer works at the White House, the official said.
According to the Washington Examiners Sarah Westwood, Gorka said it was disappointing that the White House said he was fired, because I resigned.
A source with knowledge of the situation said Gorka did indeed resignbut only after being informed on Friday by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly that his security clearance had been revoked, which would have made it impossible for him to continue in his White House job. Gorka was on vacation at the time and due to return on Monday. Instead, after hearing from Kelly, he submitted his resignation............................
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gorka-security-clearance-revoke_us_59a0eb66e4b06d67e337bcdb
Gorka should never have had a security clearance to begin with.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Carrying the new variant called "The White Death".
If you ain't white, you gunna' die!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)like ticks to a deer. So many unpleasant, unqualified people in the WH. Maybe tRump hires them because he thinks compared to them, he looks handsome?? Gorkas wife works there too.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)He is pretty low though.... so that is scary.
BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)When does Miller have a vacation? I think Jared is out of the country too (cancel his security clearance for trying to establish a back channel to Russia).
mdbl
(4,976 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)people he fires.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)after they completed the background investigation he was found wanting.
Dirty, corrupt or some such. Another fascist, ideologue leech on the American taxpayer gone.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,384 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)not fooled
(5,803 posts)he had a phony Ph.D, for starters. Not prepossessing for a high-ranking Federal official. Any previous administration would have been embarrassed to even consider this guy.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)No offense to those who have acquired a legit/valid one. We have relatives and acquaintances that have earned them.
Additionally, HEY!! 'WE' want security clearances!! 😎😆
~sprink
💗?🗽
bucolic_frolic
(43,442 posts)they should tell the public about "Trumps agenda", whatever that is.
Oh, right, they don't want anyone to find out.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Same as always, make $$$$ from his presidency. Work little, golf a lot, drain the treasury.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Comrade Casino wanted the Gorka dork in his freaking fetid KGOP Swamp. But thankfully Kelly recognized that Gorka was a freaking full-on republican TreasonWeasel, and protected America by giving him a boot in his nazi ass.
Good riddance to another of the republican's god-forsaken, anti-American cabal of TreasonWeasels.
LudwigPastorius
(9,233 posts)...that he created.
...so he can create an all-new one.
JI7
(89,283 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,233 posts)he gets the credit.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)-- Homer Simpson, to Waylon Smithers
heaven05
(18,124 posts)and storm troopers and white supremacist still have white house favor....kelly is a repthugliKKKan and he is not to be trusted either. All this drama and bannon and gorka will still have the orange baboons ear.
paleotn
(17,997 posts)he's fighting a losing battle. He's got to know twittler will be twittler no matter what. Kelly may be the gate keeper, but it's what's inside the gate that's the problem. Twittler is as fucking racist, fascist and downright crazy all by himself without Bannon and Gorak's help.
but at least we won't have to see gorka's smug smirky face on the teevee anymore, while he lies and attempts to defend the indefensible. That's worth something.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)mtngirl47
(992 posts)Most jobs don't give you vacation until you've been there one year.
Bladewire
(381 posts)Kleveland
(1,257 posts)and a distraction meant to satiate the media, and the good citizens of the US.
It is meaningless in the long run, as Pelosi said about Bannon's departure.
Nothing is going to change this perverted and devastating agenda that this administration is using to erode our country while they are in power.
handmade34
(22,759 posts)Trump aides, including Katharine Gorka, a controversial national security analyst known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric, were already working toward eliminating Life After Hates grant and to direct all funding toward fighting what the president has described as radical Islamic terrorism...
In December, Gorka, then a member of Transition team (said) she didnt agree with the Obama administrations approach to countering violent extremism...Gorka and her husband, Sebastian Gorka...have collaborated on numerous writings about the threat of radical Islam. Though they have a large following within far-right circles ― they both have bylines at Breitbart News ― mainstream national security experts are either unfamiliar with or critical of their work...Katharine Gorka, now an adviser in the Department of Homeland Securitys policy office, has pushed conspiracy theories about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the government and media..."
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Not that it would change much of anything.
DeminPennswoods
(15,292 posts)nt
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Looks like they did what they so often seem to do: Make it impossible for the person to stay, so they're forced to leave.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Miller needs to go too, he energizes alt right