Is Brennan’s Behavior a Case for Trump’s Actions Against Him?
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has joined others weighing in on President Trump’s decision to withdraw the former CIA Director’s security clearance. Specifically Burred issued the following statement on comments Brennan has been making about President Trump in The New York Times and other sources:
“Director Brennan’s recent statements purport to know as fact that the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power. If Director Brennan’s statement is based on intelligence he received while still leading the CIA, why didn’t he include it in the Intelligence Community Assessment released in 2017? If his statement is based on intelligence he has seen since leaving office, it constitutes an intelligence breach. If he has some other personal knowledge of or evidence of collusion, it should be disclosed to the Special Counsel, not The New York Times.
“If, however, Director Brennan’s statement is purely political and based on conjecture, the president has full authority to revoke his security clearance as head of the Executive Branch.”
Burr joins Sen. Rand Paul, who advocated for the revoking of Brennan’s credentials before Trump even called for such.
On Twitter Paul wrote on July 23, 2018:
“Is John Brennan monetizing his security clearance? Is John Brennan making millions of dollars divulging secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on @realDonaldTrump ?”
and
“Today I will meet with the President and I will ask him to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance!”
“Just got out of WH meeting with @realDonaldTrump. I restated to him what I have said in public: John Brennan and others partisans should have their security clearances revoked.”
Brennan has always been a controversial CIA Director. He joined the CIA in 1980 after voting for the Communist Party in 1976.
