He would have sources. CIA is a dark and murky place. His contacts dont end when he retires.
maybe if he got “burned” (like the infamous Burn Notice show) which is not the case here.
Someone may have hung him out to dry.
OR like you said...he was loving the attention.
Rest assured, a lot of Spooks have mental issues which lead to all kinds of problems. He acts like a nut filled with hate
I’m sure he had sources... but sources with valid intel? Obviously not. So either bad intel, disinformation, or no sources other than the material he had previously.
I never saw an episode of Burn Notice - but sure he might have been burned by someone who wanted him to twist in the wind. Was a long con though - took years to play out. AFAIK he was never a “spook” he was a political animal who rose up as a deputy to someone else, eventually defaulting into the #2 spot and then the #1 spot. So I concede the possibility that he made some enemies.
He is a nut. To go on TV again and again to call POTUS a traitor? This is totally unprecedented, outrageous, reckless, dangerous... 1001 adjectives I could use. To call POTUS a traitor is to call for his execution. That’s lunacy. On zero evidence. On *manufactured* evidence. On manufactured evidence Brennan knew was manufactured, foreign sourced, paid for by HRC/DNC, and never verified.
There is a certain irony that the man who was head of CIA, who worked in CIA for a decade or more, who was paid to lie as a part of his profession, who had to be involved in all kinds of dark art around the world would be hired by a news network and put on air to rant, unchallenged, as if he could ever be trusted to tell the truth.
My conspiratorial waters can run pretty deep but I restrain myself from hyperbolic claims. That said, if I ask the question “why were these people so desperate for Hillary to win, Trump to lose, and then to run this intelligence operation against him”? The answer I come up with is that the swamp is a massive gravy train and there is a lot to hide. This whole thing, and all the yelping by Dems, is misdirection.