Attorney: ‘Hostile, Entrenched Bureaucrats ... Using Security Clearances As a Way To Keep Out Trump Appointees’

EXCERPT:

HEMMER: "Here is what else you wrote. 'As an attorney who defends security-clearance holders, including Mr. Lovinger, I have had a front-row seat to behavior that only a year ago I would have dismissed as a conspiracy theory. You talk about the deep state. Take your theory one step further. In your view, where is it coming from and why?"
BIGLEY: "Yeah. This is really symptomatic of a much larger problem government-wide, the Lovinger case. And that is that you have very hostile, entrenched bureaucrats, folks who are not a fan of President Trump and they have essentially decided that security clearances, if you will, are the low-hanging fruit and they are using security clearances as a way to keep out trump appointees, to keep people out of the bureaucracies who will execute the president’s agenda. And what I want people to understand this is really part and parcel of a much larger issue. And that is these Senate hearings, the nominees who are being held up, The longer they’re held up the more we have acting officials in these bureaucracies and more incentive to not want to give up their new-found power."