Brennan’s Security Clearance Is Kaput

Politico reports the Trump administration has revoked the security clearance of Obama CIA Director John Brennan, who has been strident in his condemnation of Trump foreign policy decisions. This lack of clearance will interfere with Brennan’s opportunities for consulting employment in the years going forward.

The administration is evaluating clearances for former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden, former national security adviser Susan Rice, former FBI attorney Lisa Page, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strozk, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whose security clearance was deactivated after he was fired earlier this year, and Bruce Ohr, who is still in the Justice Department although he was demoted from associate deputy attorney general.

For several of these people, revoking their clearance is something like turning them into nonentities. I predict they’ll turn into university faculty, an arena where their never-Trump attitudes will be honored.