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On May 1, 2017 Lovinger was notified that his Top-Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS-SCI) clearance had been suspended. Lovinger was the second Trump official to lose his security clearance. The loss of a security clearance is a significant matter as they are requirements for many senior positions. He was to return to the [[Pentagon]] immediately.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-pulls-top-secret-clearance-of-a-trump-white-house-aide-2017-5</ref>

On May 1, 2017 Lovinger was notified that his Top-Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS-SCI) clearance had been suspended. Lovinger was the second Trump official to lose his security clearance. The loss of a security clearance is a significant matter as they are requirements for many senior positions. He was to return to the [[Pentagon]] immediately.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-pulls-top-secret-clearance-of-a-trump-white-house-aide-2017-5</ref>

In June 2017 Lovinger filed an ethics complaint about James H. Baker (DOD) with the Pentagon’s senior [[ethics]] official, charging that Lovinger’s superiors misused the security clearance process to punish him.<ref>https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/15/adam-lovinger-pentagon-analyst-lost-security-clear/</ref> Lovinger's attorney leveled [[Whistleblower Statutes|Whistleblower retaliation]] charges in a letter to [[DOD]] officials: {{quotebox|“A review of the ‘case file’ in this matter illuminates a picture of intentional whistleblower retaliation against Mr. Lovinger; personal and political vendettas against Lovinger by [James H.] Baker …”}}

In June 2017 Lovinger filed an ethics complaint about James H. Baker (DOD) with the Pentagon’s senior [[ethics]] official, charging that Lovinger’s superiors misused the security clearance process to punish him.<ref>https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/15/adam-lovinger-pentagon-analyst-lost-security-clear/</ref> Lovinger's attorney leveled [[Whistleblower Statutes|Whistleblower retaliation]] charges in a letter to [[DOD]] officials: {{quotebox|“A review of the ‘case file’ in this matter illuminates a picture of intentional whistleblower retaliation against Mr. Lovinger; personal and political vendettas against Lovinger by [James H.] Baker …”}} In April 2018 Lovinger received a memo from Washington Headquarters Services Director, Obama holdover Barbara Westgate, telling him that she had decided to suspend him from Pentagon duties without pay. Lovinger’s attorney, Sean Bigley, penned an op-ed in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' drawing attention to the case. Bigley stated that, {{quotebox|“Security clearances are being weaponized against the White House by hostile career [[bureaucrat]]s, thwarting the president’s agenda by holding up or blocking appointees.<br><br>In Mr. Lovinger’s case, those weaponizing the security-clearance process include a senior official who remains on the job despite publicly disparaging President Trump as “unfit” to lead, a Pentagon attorney who instructed colleagues on the importance of concealing retaliatory motives behind their actions, and the Defense Department’s security adjudications chief, who persists in advancing false allegations."<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-deep-state-weaponizes-vetting-of-trump-appointees-1525215143</ref>}}

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