Does Brennan still have a need to know?
Via BPR:
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, sue. That’s apparently the new personal credo of MSNBC talking head John Brennan, the former CIA director under Barack Obama.
Brennan — who has been caught leaking classified intel to the media — is so triggered that President Trump revoked his security clearance that he’s considering filing a lawsuit.
“A number of lawyers reached out to say there is a very strong case here, not so much to reclaim mine but to prevent this from happening in the future,” Brennan told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “So I am thinking about what it is that I might want to do. At this time, I’m trying to make sure that the principle is what is going to be defended and supported.”
Brennan added, “I think this is just another example of Mr. Trump trying to frighten and intimidate others. But I can tell you, having worked in the national security and intelligence, these are not the type of people who are bullied or intimidated by the likes of someone like Mr. Trump.”
It’s unclear what “principle” Brennan would defend by suing a sitting United States president for exercising his Constitutional authority to revoke a leaker’s access to classified national security secrets. Brennan, who has a history of leaking intel to the media, should have been fired (and prosecuted) for that alone.