'An insider threat': Conservative warns Trump shouldn't be given intelligence briefings
Former President Donald Trump would, as a matter of tradition, receive intelligence briefings on the campaign trail, now that he has effectively secured the nomination for the Republican Party.
But President Joe Biden should not allow this to happen, conservative analyst and former Naval War College professor Tom Nichols wrote for The Atlantic on Wednesday, because Trump is "an insider threat" to the country's security.
"The decision rests, as always, with the sitting president, and Joe Biden is likely to continue this practice so that he will not be accused of 'politicizing' access to intelligence," wrote Nichols. "Such accusations need not be taken seriously; they would only be more meaningless noise from a GOP that has already stumbled in a clumsy attempt to impeach Biden after leveling charges of corruption at both him and his son. And although denying Trump access to classified briefs would produce squawks and yowls from Republicans, it would also serve as a reminder that Trump cannot be trusted with classified information."...