Yes. Our entire system of security clearances is based on NEED TO KNOW. With no job, what’s Brennan’s NEED TO KNOW? Even those with the highest clearances are still beholden to the NEED TO KNOW each operation they are read on, otherwise even they are not told.
This.
What possible reason exists for defrocked federal employees retaining access to secret information?
There is no reason. Strip all of them of their clearances. If they want to keep tabs on what is going on, let them buy a newspaper subscription like everyone else.
Someone needs to tell these dipwads that our justice process is not “Brennan helps himself to some intelligence which he then leaks to the press”.