It’s been long overdue, but former CIA Director John Brennan has FINALLY had his security clearance revoked.
While it would be common sense to revoke the security clearance of anyone fired from an intelligence position, that’s somehow not the standard procedure in America.
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The media will undoubtedly chalk up Brennan’s revoked security clearance to a personal vendetta from President Donald Trump, but Trump was hardly the only one calling to have that access revoked. “Is John Brennan monetizing his security clearance? Is John Brennan making millions of dollars divulging secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on Donald Trump?” Rand Paul asked last month. He then said he’d be meeting with Trump to recommend revoking Brennan’s clearance.
BIG question for John Brennan, who has become such a vocal spokesman. Did you receive any secret info on candidate Trump or his campaign from European or British intelligence sources? Brennan should be brought before Congress & made to testify under oath, NOW!
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) June 7, 2018
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the announcement. “Historically, former heads of intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been allowed to retain access to classified information after their government service so that they can consult with their successors regarding matters about which they may have special insights and as a professional courtesy. Neither of these justifications supports Mr. Brennan’s continued access to classified information,” she said.
“I’ve exercised my constitutional authority to deny Mr. Brennan access to classified information,” she concluded.
Sanders also said the White House would be reviewing the clearances of James Comey, Jim Clapper, Michael Hayden, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Susan Rice, and Bruce Orr, all of which have played a hand in the Spygate scandal.
Watch below:
.@PressSec quoting @POTUS on revoking John Brennan's security clearance: "At this point in my administration any benefits that senior officials might glean from consultations with Mr. Brennan are now outweighed by the risks posed by his erratic conduct and behavior." pic.twitter.com/tbS0GIVqe3
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 15, 2018
Here were the reactions across political lines:
NBC immediately editorializes breaking news. pic.twitter.com/MCNUcpXyhX
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) August 15, 2018
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Breaking: DNI Coats – the nation’s senior-most Intelligence official – was NOT consulted on Trump decision to revoke Fmr CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance – a source with knowledge tells me.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 15, 2018
Oh, boy. That’ll show him!🤪https://t.co/4OqR2mM3SB
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) August 15, 2018
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A DANGEROUS AND CHILLING MOMENT: The White House is stripping clearance from @JohnBrennan and reviewing it for @GenMhayden, @SallyQYates, and other Trump critics.This is a raw partisan vendetta that will be met with sycophancy from the GOP leadership. Meanwhile, Putin is coddled.
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) August 15, 2018
This guy is an absolute disgrace.
He abused his power and colluded with foreign intelligence to frame the Trump team. He will be remembered only as the stain to the United States that he was. https://t.co/0n2yPQeFOZ— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) August 15, 2018
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As we’ve documented yesterday, when it comes to the origins of the Trump/Russia investigation, Brennan was the man behind the curtain. Brennan played a large role in relaying British intelligence on the Trump campaign to the FBI (a form of “information laundering,”).
The British intelligence agency GCHQ had been gathering intelligence on members of the Trump campaign (which they claim was accidental), but certainly, it wasn’t accidental when the head of the GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, flew down to Washington to share that intelligence with Brennan in the summer of 2016.
Brennan had also received information from “an intelligence agency of one of the Baltic States” earlier in April. Brennan then was able to use the GCHQ’s (and Baltic) information to press the FBI into launching a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
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Brennan is the fired intelligence figure behind the greatest witch hunt in modern American political history, and yet liberals still think he deserves clearance. Any reason to oppose Trump is good for them, I suppose.
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It should have been revoked as soon as he was canned.
the problem with revoking those peoples security clearances is that they left multiple people off that list that should be revoked because they actually committed breaches in national security protpcol and there was proof of it. hillary clinton grossely violated national security protpocol, huma abdien grossely violated national security protocol when she sent classified information to her home laptop to have her sexual predator husband that has absolutely no national security clearances at all print out these classified emails for her cheryl mills violated national security protocol over and over sending classified emails to hillary clintons home server tht she had been warned multiple times by national security experts not to do that it was not legal, debbie wasserman shults violated a shopping list of national security protpcol violationsone of wich was giving access to our nations secure servers to a pakastani born immigrant who had only been in this country a couple of years and had absolutely no professional I.T experience, and did not even bother to vet irman awn to make sure that he did not have any connections to terrorist groups or a criminal history, irman awan went on to access the email accounts of the hole democratic caucus with out permission, upload huge amoutnts of information to a drop box account, when using drop box was forbidden to use by federal employees because it is unsecure, and then she broke national security protocol by trying to cover it all up and allowed awan to log into the secure servers using her log in credentials even though he had his security clearances revoked and was forbidden access to united states government network servers. i am sure there are more names that should be added like maxine waters who constantly calls for an over throws of the elected president, cory booker, keith ellison and well just about the whole damn democratic party to be honest. the list trump has sessions working on is just the tip of the iceberg of what the list should really be. there is not a single senator or congressman in the democratic caucus DWS was in that did not know that irman awan had not been vetted, they all knew that he was a security risk that could have ties to terrorist groups and there was a possibility that he had an extensive criminal history, but they turne a blind eye because well democrats are above the law and they are not bound by the laws of this nation only the peasants underlings that are not elected officials of the democratic party have to obey the law. its time to declare the democratic party as a national security risk.!
There is not one good reason for a person ho is NOT employed by the Government to still have a security clearance.
I have held “Secret” clearance 3 times in my life. I find it funny, that the day the projects ended, so did my clearance. That is how it should be.
The level of outspoken vehemence coming from these former Obama officials is directly proportional to their culpability in corruption… There is NO other reason for them to be so zealous… Brennan is the loudest… Brennan has the most to hide…
that is because brennan started the whole witch hunt after president trump, he made the first contacts with foreign operatives in an effort to bring gown trump then passed it off to others to hide the fact that he was involved in the conspiracy. brennan fed information to foreign spies and told them exacxtly what to say, so they would feed it to others corrupt agents at the FBI so it looked like a legit tip. brennan did everything he could do to try and stop trump from being elected and thwarting the democratic parties plans for the future of the united states. it is no revelation that hillary clinton and obama were overly friendly to muslim groups, many of wich were recognized terrorist organizations, brennan himself is a muslim and fully supports islamic control over the united states. the democratic vision of the united states is an islamic caliphate with democratic senators as the mullahs. connections to islamic extreamist groups run bone deep in the obama administration, huma abdien’s mother runs an anti american news paper, she has family members that are in the muslim brotherhood a recognized terrorist organization, john kerry has deep ties to the biggest terrorist supporting nation on this planet Iran, hillary clinton made military wepons available to nations that were forbidden from buying military weapons from the united states because of their ties to terrorism. obama had the muslim brotherhood over to the white house many times and he took advice from them time and time again. the muslim brotherhood was behind the arab spring uprising and the deaths of hundreds of people. saudi arabia declared the muslim brotherhood a terrorist group years before the arab spring uprising. obama and hillary clinton were in the middle of the arab spring uprising supporting the muslim brotherhood, obama hillary and john kerry made clear attampts to meddle in the isreal elections in an attempt to remove a prime minister who was hardline anti muslim and would retaliate swiftly when terrorists attacked isreali citizens. the obama administrations ties to islam and terrorism run clean to the bone and brennan was doing his part to further the democratic parties destruction of the united states, democracy and freedom as we have known it for over 250 years. one further point it is no coincidence that the bulk of islamic refugee’s the obama administration imported were sent to minnesota and michigan, it is no coincedence that keith ellison a devout muslim is running for attorney general of minnesota, it was all planned out by the democratic party hillary clinton and obama so minnesota would become the first islamic controlled state and the first state to go under shariah law michigan will be the next one they make a move on. unless they are stopped they will slowly work their way thru states one at a time until the united states is destroyed .
Wonderful to watch all the heads roll. All the Trump haters standing by spitting tacks and howling out in the street, or in their crying rooms.
It’s understandable why John Brennen and so many others from the past administration had to launch a non stop assault on our legitimately elected President. They have alot of corruption to try to cover up. The last administrations DOJ along with the CIA and leaders in the FBI were willing to do anything to stop Donald Trump from being our President and then to have a back up plan for when he was elected. The facts have been proving this. The corruption and attempt to control our election by the past administration should be unacceptable to every American regardless of which political party affiliation that are connected to. I’m so thankful for honest leaders like Rand Paul and Tray Gowdy for refusing to give up the fight to obtain all the facts that expose The Deep State that has been allowed to function with full powerful authority from our last President. God forbid that this be allowed to blind and influence so many affected by the media pundits who are not speaking facts but spewing their own biased theories to promote the taring apart of our Nation. Shame on all of them. Millions of prayers are being answered when the facts not the bias are being forced out of the last corrupt admininstration. We didn’t put up with Nixon’s abuse of power and we won’t put up with Pres. Obama’s corrupt administration’s abuse of power either. We voted for a bombastic, flawed, yet success businessman to turn the good ship U.S.A. around to it’s basic founding principles. “A government for, by and with We the People”. (Vs. a big government bureacracy who’s command leaders think they know what’s best for everyone else.)
I am glad that Trump got elected for much is being exposed. Changes need to happen how government has been ran for years. God Bless America !
Why not just say that brennan is a weirdo, putty-faced, mentally challenged piece of shlt and be done with it?
Has your Editor graduated from the 5th grade yet: Security Clarence. I know for one thing, he failed in Spelling. What happened to proof reading. You are the only one most News Media can’t spell worth a damn. Y’all need to due spell check. Clarence is a name nor a word, dummy.
Harry, your hyperbole notwithstanding, what does “You are the only one most News Media can’t spell worth a damn,” mean? Pettifogging a typo is a tactic of the weak. Why not just say that brennan is a weirdo, putty-faced, mentally challenged piece of shlt and be done with it? The preceeding questions are rhetorical in nature.
Overlooking spelling mistakes and grammatical errors is a sign of stupidity, especially when the mistakes originate from an organization of educated individuals with editors and proof-checkers. Be that as it may, you would have less-difficulty explaining why Trump is the least-qualified figure around to occupy the White House. I know it’s your job to spin and obfuscate but the one who’s yelling “Witch hunt!” loudest is the witch. No one deserves an investigation more than Trump: he’s lied, bluffed, and bullied himself into a corner; any suspicion that he’s corrupt is that which he brought on himself. He had no one else to blame. (PS Brennan is exercising free speech as a citizen; his constitutional rights did not disappear anytime recently.)
Really…Bless Your Heart!
I think that you need some professional help! Why, cause everything that you leftists twits have pointed the finger at Trump for, has come back and slapped you idiot snowflakes 100 times over! Move on brain washed hateful B!
seek professional help.
It’s about time this commie bastard is kicked to the curb. This horrible CNN dog needs to be exiled to Russia since he loves communism so much!
AGREE 100 % with you Eric. This guy belongs in prison, the SOB.
We have a generation of kids/young adults that believe that communism/socialism works, NOT! Sadly they are spoiled generation that has never experienced first hand the horrors and loss of freedom that comes with their Utopia brain washed indoctrination that happened right under our nose! Our schools and media are to blame, for some reason we got to a place where its popular to hate America /police/Military etc.. I blame this on the Liberal leftists and its been going on for years unchecked. I also find it strange that the left are pushing the Russian Putin crap on Trump when its them that are trying to destroy this country and support Socialism /Communism , confused , yes! Lets stop the madness and continue to fight the Bernie Sanders /Obama/Hilary’s of the world. They are dangerous and sadly the younger generation has no clue what they are being used for :(
i like to refer to that generation and generation feral, they behave like feral human beings, they can nt function in a civilized society, they disregard laws , morals and human decency, they believe they are the most important person on this earth and the world should bow to their demands. they are so far removed from reality that thy can not handle rejection in any way, they can not handle any kind of strif or struggle and they can not handle anyone criticizing them in any way, they are violent when they dont get their way or they get their little feelers hurt its a 50/50 chance they will pick up a dun to to a school and kill everyone in sight, the 90s truly spawned aferal generation. I have come to the conclusion that we must deal with the feral generation the same way we deal with feral cats we need to round up all the ferals and sort them into those that can be domesticated and those that are unable to be domesticated, then we need to spay and nueter the ones that can be domesticated so they can not pass on their defective feral genes to another generation, those that cant be domesticated need to be locked up in a gitmo type facility so thy can do no more harm to this nation or its citizens. clearly i am joking about the spay and neuter bit but i stand by my feral generation comment!