Posted on 08/17/2018 3:05:30 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Senators’ reactions to President Donald Trump revoking former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance mostly broke down along party lines, with Democrats condemning and Republicans defending him.
In a statement, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., cited a New York Times op-ed published Thursday, after Brennan’s security was revoked, in which Brennan wrote that Trump’s claims of no collusion were "hogwash," saying the only remaining questions were whether the collusion amounted to a criminal conspiracy and whether the Trump team obstructed justice in order to cover up the collusion Brennan alleged.
Burr said that if in fact Brennan had information that proved the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power, he should have provided that information to special counsel Robert Mueller, rather than writing about it in a newspaper.
Burr also asked that if Brennan had had direct knowledge of collusion during his CIA tenure, he should have included it in the intelligence community’s 2017 assessment of Russian interference, released just before Brennan resigned. If Brennan learned information after he left office, Burr said it would constitute an intelligence breach.
"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’s statement continued.
A spokesperson for Burr did not respond to a follow-up question about whether Brennan said or did anything before his clearance was revoked that led Burr to believe it should be revoked.
Brennan has been one of the more outspoken former members of the intelligence community – though far from the only one – in criticizing the president, often addressing the president directly over Twitter.
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A little late though, isn't it?
1 of them was David Petraeus!!! Is he another effing Democrat like that IDIOT Admiral William McRaven?
I heard that. David Petraeus needs to be quiet. He is a disgrace.
They d*mn well better.
Those of us who did the real work while having security clearences are ALL better in every way and much more trustworthy then Brenn*sswipe.
Would someone please till what Brennan can’t talk about now, that he could “legally” talk about before...
tell...
People who work for the far left, “mainstream media” should not have security clearances. They can’t be trusted with classified information. Little Bobby’s “Russki collusion” fiasco has already proven that to us.
saying the only remaining questions were whether the collusion amounted to a criminal conspiracy and whether the Trump team obstructed justice in order to cover up the collusion Brennan alleged.
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Burr is buying Brennan’s hogwash.
Wow. I am pleasantly surprised by Burr.
Me too.
saying the only remaining questions were whether the collusion amounted to a criminal conspiracy and whether the Trump team obstructed justice in order to cover up the collusion Brennan alleged.
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Don’t be, he’s buying into the collusion conclusion.
He is a Bush League Republican who needs to be Cantorized next time he’s up.
IMHO anyone sticking up for Brennan is self identifying as a traitor, there is no reason for him to have the security level clearance he enjoyed unless to someone that has control he is performing a useful function to have it. As he is no longer a member of the current organization he should have lost that long ago, but I feel he was allowed to keep it as it was necessary to monitor his communications and actions to discover who he was conspiring with in the overall plan to pull down President Trump. Now that our team has all the info needed about his sources directly the second phase of alternate channels comes into play to see who might be feeding him, like say Petraeus.....
Would you like to play a game?
How about a nice game of chess!
Who the hell is the disgraced Whore-master Petraues to lecture Trump.
He exchanged military information for hot ass. He is a disgrace
I still do not understand why some fired/retired dude needs a security clearance.
18 months out and nobody wants the traitors opinion on anything!!
What, is he using his security clearance for profit, or picking up widows at some retirement community????
David Petraeus is a perfumed prince, a 4 Star General who was never in combat but has twice the medals as General Patton had. He’s also the Deep State.
I surmise PDJT has dirt on the Pubbies...Pubbies want to lose the house because they have no loyalty to the U.S. and in fact get rich being in the minority, being lobbyists, insider trading, open borders...so for them to say this means PDJT has them where he wants them...winning!!!
Crude, but appropriate and true. WTH is he given a platform on this issue escapes me.
West Point hot a$$. No Honor Code with those two, that’s for sure.
Security clearance needs to be revoked within 90 days of leaving Govrnment FOR EVERYONE! Milatary, CIA and former Presidents.
What Trump doesn’t get is that he is fighting the deep state on both in inside and the outside. Kill the outside and its only a 1 front war,
I was wondering when these azz clowns would show up.
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