Begs the question — IS Brennan a contractor to the government? If he isn’t — if he’s paid by NBC to tell the media what he knows, but is not a contractor to the government RIGHT NOW, then I think he has no “need to know” anything right now.
Maintaining a clearance because MAYBE in the future he might become a contractor is stupid. BTW: I’m a contractor with a clearance.
NBC is by no means the type of contractor I am referring to. I mean a govt contractor working on classified govt programs.