Trump canceling the security clearance of Spies Who Lied is a fine start but dont stop there

President Trump was darn right to revoke the security clearance of the 51 Spies Who Lied — the former intel officials who misled the nation by falsely dismissing The Post’s 2020 scoop on Hunter Biden’s laptop as a “Russian information operation.”These officials — James Clapper, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Mike Morell and others — simply cannot be trusted with access to classified government info.Then again, numerous others involved with the deception, including, notably, Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken, are also good candidates to lose their security clearance.Recall that the 51 had no evidence our 2020 election-eve report on the laptop was a Russian plant, a fact they themselves virtually admitted in the letter they signed five days after the story ran.Yet the letter, claiming the story had “the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” was nonetheless enough to green-light major news organizations to similarly trash it.Twitter and Facebook had already squelched the reporting, and then-candidate Joe Biden cited the spies’ statement to claim the report was false.Yet the FBI had earlier verified the laptop’s authenticity.And years later (i.e., once Biden was safely in office), most news organizations admitted our story was true.Heck, Biden’s own Justice Department even used evidence from the laptop in its gun case against Hunter.

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Never miss a story.Oh, and the specific info on the laptop — showing the Biden family enriching itself with foreign entities, essentially by selling access to Biden & Co.

— has also proved true.It’s entirely conceivable that had more voters seen our story, Biden would’ve lost the 2020 election.But why stop with the 51? FBI agents who primed social media for a Ru...