One of President Trump's strongest promises, when he was campaigning, was that he would
drain the DC swamp.
I do not think the bureaucrats in the Beltway took him seriously, but they are beginning
to change their tune.
Trump is now focusing on them one at a time and a number of them are having their days
counted down in the government.
Just last month, Trump revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.
It was richly deserved as he was going on paid media networks and horribly disparaging
the president and his office, not to mention those that serve at Trump's pleasure.
And Trump has set his sights on eight or nine others who have also turned on his presidency
and in my opinion are national security threats.
You have a right to disagree with the president or anyone else… you do not have the right
to start name calling and disparaging the president and all that America stands for
just because you do not like the way someone's brand of politics is flowing these days.
That amounts to aiding and abetting the enemy.
"Mr. Brennan's lying and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary
is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation's most closely held secrets and facilities,
the very aim of our adversaries which is to sow division and chaos," White House Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated.
"Mr. Brennan has recently leveraged his status as a former high-ranking official with
access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous
allegations — wild outbursts on the Internet and television — about this Administration,"
the president's statement continued.
"More broadly, the issue of Mr. Brennan's security clearance raises larger questions
about the practice of former officials maintaining access to our nation's most sensitive secrets
long after their time in government has ended," Sanders added.
Soon to be evaluated in a similar fashion are former FBI Director James Comey, former
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Agency Director Michael
Hayden, former national security adviser Susan Rice, former FBI attorney Lisa Page, former
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok,
former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and Bruce Ohr.
The only one out of that bunch that is not a total slug is Hayden and he says losing
his clearance will not affect him much.
The rest are definitely security risks.
Brennan was furious and responded via Twitter.
"This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech
& punish critics," he wrote.
"It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about
the cost of speaking out.
My principles are worth far more than clearances.
I will not relent," he wrote.
And yet, he threatened to sue over it.
Brennan even gave an interview to MSNBC where he blustered that if the president believed
that the action would lead the former CIA director "to just go away and be quiet,
he is very badly mistaken."
We should get so lucky.
"I have seen this type of behavior, and actions on the part of foreign tyrants and
despots and autocrats during my CIA and national security career," he said.
"I never thought I would see it here in the United States.
And so I do believe that all Americans really need to take stock of what is happening right
now in our government, and how abnormal and how irresponsible and how dangerous these
actions are."
This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish
critics.
It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost
of speaking out.
My principles are worth far more than clearances.
I will not relent.
Brennan whined that he was not informed by the government but instead, had to find out
about his security clearance being revoked from a friend who called when Sanders was
delivering the president's statement.
Cry me a river.
This is one Obama swamp slug that should have been stripped of his security clearances and
ejected long ago.
"Security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked, and those who have
already lost their security clearance may not be able to have it reinstated," Sanders
said.
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