Twelve former senior intelligence officials have signed a statement criticizing President Trump’s decision to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan. Their letter asserts the President’s decision was based entirely on Brennan’s criticism of the President.
It is very likely that several of these officials were in that “special” category of officials who were allowed to retain their security clearances when they left the government service. In fact, some of them may still have clearances on file with their final employer.
But as has become typical of our national, regional, and local skews media, we’re not getting the complete picture about the signators to this letter. Some of them appear to be capitalizing on their clearance retention to financially enhance their retirement incomes. (more…)
