“To govern effectively, secrecy is needed and must be maintained”
There is too much secrecy in government today at all levels.
Most national defense secrets are leaked to foreign governments. Information on computers is hacked and disseminated. Congressmen, staffers, and bureaucrats with security clearances leak frequently and intentionally. Contractors, like Eric Snowden, possess national secrets and release them for cash or a perceived moral reason. Journalists also trade in government secrets and leak them to advance a political agenda. Politicians have on their own discretion allowed military secrets to be conveyed to potential enemies. Liberal employment policies result in spies being employed in weapons labs, at defense contractors, and in the bureaucracy.
Most “secrets” are secret only from the American people who are kept in the dark and manipulated by government’s control of information and security laws that are never enforced when broken by elites. Hence we live in a nation where a sailor serves a year in prison for sending his parents a photo of his submarine yet a Secretary of State (Hillary) puts national secrets on an unsecure home server and is given a pass.
Time to make government transparent. Why maintain secrecy when our perceived enemies have the information?
I feel this is not aimed so much at Brennan as it is at the sources of his information. Removing his clearance makes leaking intel info to him a crime. The leakers would likely think twice knowing they can now face serious charges for transmitting classified materiel to an unauthorized person. The diehard swamp things will not care but the not so zealous folks at Langley and elsewhere will now think twice. And... if Brennan or operatives directly tied to him can be caught seeking classified intel, then we have a situation that may call for lots of popcorn.