Security Clearances Are Approved & Withdrawn At The Discretion Of the President.
Trump is perfectly within his rights, under US Law, to withdraw Brennan's Security Clearance (and anyone else he considers is appropriate)
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US President Donald Trump has taken away John Brennan's security clearance.
175 former US officials have added their names to a list of intelligence officials denouncing President Trump's decision to revoke former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance https://cnn.it/2BxdwHu
Doesn't matter what they think. This isn't a decision that goes to a vote. The office of the president can revoke the security clearance.
Trump was right on this. Brennan left government.
He's no longer director of the CIA -- he no longer needs a security clearance.
And that's before you think back to when he got caught lying and spying on Congress.
- Sen. Wyden on Clapper: Regardless of what was going through [Clapper's] head when he testified, failing to correct the record was a deliberate decision to lie to the American people about what their government was doing.
- Sen. Wyden's statement on Clapper's resignation after Clapper provided false info to Wyden/Congress under oath. Clapper had denied existence of a mass surveillance program on Americans that he knew about.
- The Atlantic's article on Brennan spying on Senate Intel Committee, then falsely denying it, only to have to admit it.
Brennan has never lived up to the trust placed in him.
He should have been put in a prison for spying on the US Senate alone.
He is not to be trusted and, therefore, does not deserve a security clearance.
Amy Goodman is good on ICE fascists, but naive on CIA's John Brennan. Why dose her headline today parrot the frivolous lede in Washington Post? Fact that Brennan did all he could, legally & illegally to elect Mrs. Clinton should subject him to close scrutiny, not give him a pass.
And there's that as well.
But at the end of the day, it really comes down to the reality that he had that clearance because he was the Director of the CIA. Those days are gone and so is his security clearance. That's how it should be.