Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka on Thursday claimed he signed nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) during his tenure on the Trump campaign and in the administration.
However, Gorka was appearing to conflate the traditional NDA with a form needed to have a security clearance within the White House, which is unrelated and allows government employees to access classified information.
“I signed an NDA when I started advising candidate Trump in 2015 because I started working for him on national security issues when he was in the running,” Gorka told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Ned Ryun on “Rising.”
“So I signed an NDA then, and yes, I signed an NDA when I joined the White House and when I left the White House because I had a clearance,” he continued.
“What I signed is a function … it’s the ‘out brief.’ When you leave a job where you are required to access classified information, once you are read out of certain programs, once you go back into the private sector, you have to sign a document that states, ‘I will not discuss anything I’ve seen, which is classified,’ ” he said.
— Julia Manchester
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