Disgraceful, extent to which the deep state will go to protect their own. I was in the Oval Office w/@realDonaldTrump when he directed officials to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance. A partisan hack & mouthpiece for the media has no business holding a clearance.Revoke now!
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) June 7, 2019
Crazy, why does he still have it?
Sen. Rand Paul suspects someone revoked President Trump’s order to have former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance revoked.
The president announced in August that Brennan’s security clearance was being stripped due to “erratic behavior” that disqualified him from having access to sensitive information. But the White House never followed through with the complicated bureaucratic process of revocation, a source told the New York Times in a report published last month.
Asked to comment about it in an interview on CNN, Paul said the “deep state,” in which federal or military officials defy a democratically elected government, was likely to blame.
“Now the deep state is actually protecting their own and not listening to the president’s orders,” the Kentucky Republican said on Tuesday. “I was sitting in the White House when President Trump said I want his security clearance taken, and I saw the order given. I saw the chief of staff was there, not the current chief of staff, the previous chief of staff.”