August 15, 2018 12:50 PM UTC

Trump Revokes Security Clearance for Former CIA Director

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• by: Colorado Pols

There’s some breaking news this afternoon from the White House. As the New York Times reports:

President Trump on Wednesday revoked the security clearance of John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director under President Barack Obama, citing what he called Mr. Brennan’s “erratic” behavior.

The White House had threatened last month to strip Mr. Brennan and two other Obama administration officials — Susan E. Rice, the former national security adviser; and James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence — of their security clearances. At the time, Ms. Sanders said that Mr. Trump was considering doing it because “they politicized, and in some cases monetized, their public service and security clearances.”…

…Mr. Trump’s decision to revoke Mr. Brennan’s security clearance was announced by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary. Ms. Sanders said the president is reviewing the security clearances of other former Democratic officials who have been critics of the president.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a statement from President Trump to assembled media that Brennan’s security clearance was being revoked, as the Times explains, “because he is among a group of former officials who have ‘transitioned into highly partisan’ people.”

In other words, thou shalt not speak ill of the President.

This was the last Tweet sent from John Brennan’s Twitter account as of this writing:

It’s astounding how often you fail to live up to minimum standards of decency, civility, & probity. Seems like you will never understand what it means to be president, nor what it takes to be a good, decent, & honest person. So disheartening, so dangerous for our Nation. https://t.co/eI9HaCec1m

— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) August 14, 2018