[pepsi_junkie]

Based on that, I'm going to say that Bathhouse Barry is the sponsor of Brennan and the rest of the former Obama officials who still have clearances.

And what is Obama's need to know? I say that in all honesty and it applies to Bush and Clinton too. The nation wasn't founded on the idea that Presidents have an entitlement to a lifetime of access to state secrets for their own purposes. They are in office and need that data, no question. But when they are out they go back to private pursuits and that need is over. If they choose to work for a thinktank then that's their right but they don't have a right to pull current intel data to advance that pursuit just because they feel entitled to it.

[Dahoser]

I do not know why ex-Presidents have this ability, but they do. Maybe it only extends as far as their personal papers in the National Archives, but it exists and while the National Archives claims they don't give the same privileges in the aftermath of Sandy Berger's smuggling and destruction of incriminating documents that allowed it to occur, the damage was done there and all because Berger kept his clearance through Clinton.

As an aside, I don't believe the Archives for a second. Just let Valerie Jarrett or Susan Rice march in there and demand to get documents and be left alone, and they'll puddle the floor and say, "Yes ma'am. Sorry ma'am. Here are the keys. Please lock up when you're done."