Desperately grasping at any political or procedural nitpicks they can find to impede the progress of the Trump administration, the gadflies who make up the Democrat contingent in Congress have recently charged presidential interference in the issue of granting security clearances.  In what they must feel is a true "gotcha" moment, these desperate Democrats have surfaced what they trumpet to be a whistleblower from the White House who claims that her authority to grant or deny clearances is being usurped by others in the Trump inner circle so as to ensure that members of that inner circle, meaning family members and close associates of the president, have the necessary clearances to participate in governance. Democrats are nearly giddy with expectation that they have finally found Donald Trump in some violation of the nation's security laws.  They haven't.  A quick internet search could have spared them some major embarrassment, once...(Read Full Post)