“More than 30 aides to President Trump have been stripped of access to top secret intelligence,” Bloomberg reports.
“The officials have been notified that they will be downgraded to a lower-level ‘secret’ interim security clearance while their background investigations continue… None of the officials have been asked to leave the administration and their portfolios on top secret matters will be distributed to other staff members.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.