Security clearances for New York State Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg have also been revoked.
President Donald Trump on Saturday revoked security clearances for former Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
White House officials said Trump also revoked security clearances for former Associate Attorney General Lisa Monaco, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Monaco helped coordinate the Department of Justice’s response to a violation of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, White House officials said. Both James and Bragg led the legal case against Trump.
As a result, Biden will no longer have access to daily intelligence briefings.
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The former president has traditionally provided access to classification information at the highest level and access to daily information briefings.
Few former presidents called for such a briefing, but it was known that the late President George H.W. Bush (Chief of the Central Intelligence during the Gerald R. Ford administration) would do so.
When Biden took office, he cites the January 6, 2021 incident in which Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and disrupt the recognition of votes at election colleges, leading to Trump’s intelligence briefing. I have decided to revoke access. Trump was later fired up by the House of Representatives and acquitted by the Senate.
Millie, who served as the US top officer during part of President Trump’s first term of office, became his major critic after retiring as a four-star general during the Biden administration in 2023.
Reuters and Arjun Singh contributed to this report.
