James Clapper, a former Obama official who has become a frequent critic of President Donald Trump over the years, was banned from attending a graduation ceremony for a K9 officer whose CIA training he had sponsored in memory of his late wife.
Clapper, who was Obama’s director of national intelligence from 2010-17, learned from the group that trained the yellow Labrador, Susan, named for Clapper’s wife, that his name had been removed from a list of guests for the event, held at the end of May at a CIA training facility in Herndon, Virginia, reported The Atlantic on Friday.
The CIA reportedly told the nonprofit group that trains the dogs for the CIA that Clapper needed to be removed from the list because of an executive order from Trump earlier this year stripping the veteran intelligence agent, 84, and others of their security clearances.
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