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Revoking security clearances includes due process, which is not being followed, says lawyer who represents whistleblowers - ABA Journal

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In February, President Donald Trump said he was revoking the security clearance of Washington, D.C.-based lawyer Mark Zaid, who in 2019 represented a whistleblower who led to Trump’s first impeachment over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

By early March, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, announced on social media that she had revoked Zaid’s security clearance. Then Trump stated in a memo that it was “no longer in the national interest” for Zaid and others to have access to classified information.

The memo targeted a fairly lofty group, including three people who ran against Trump: former President Joe Biden; former Vice President Kamala Harris; and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who ran against Trump in the 2016 election. Zaid, who says he has had full security clearance for decades, also represented the Republican National Committee, on a matter related to Clinton’s emails.

A registered independent, Zaid says he has never been involved in “a meaningful” way with any political party.

“I am strictly a lawyer who represents clients,” adds Zaid, who also describes himself as “essentially an employment lawyer—but one for spies.”

He also co-founded Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit group that “helps government employees and private-sector workers report and expose wrongdoing—safely, lawfully and responsibly.”

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