A member of the CIA’s honor program for lawyers, Ciralsky was set to rotate into a White House post to advise Richard Clark, the administration’s terrorism expert at the National Security Council, according to a source with direct knowledge of the incident. But when the time came for his security clearance to be renewed, the CIA blocked the appointment.
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