With the revocation of his security clearance, the sting for Breenan is the embarrassment to his ego.
He surely will have access to any and all security intelligence due to the Obama moles still embedded in the security apparatus.
If he’d ignored it, the msm would have ignored it so there wouldn’t be any public embarrassment. Sure, there’s plenty of enemies of the US who could get him the info but he’d have to go through them and perhaps pay for it.