Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” former CIA director John Brennan said President Donald Trump “siding up to authoritarian leader” has “emboldened” Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is often referred by his initials MBS. Discussing the suspected
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former CIA Director John Brennan said government officials were obligated to “push back’ against President Donald Trump’s order to declassify documents and text messages related to the Russia investigation. Brennan said, “Well, it is
Former CIA Director John Brennan weighed in Thursday on the anonymous “resistance” New York Times op-ed written by a senior White House official. Brennan, noting the memorial service of Sen. John McCain, the Bob Woodward book reporting unfavorably on President Donald Trump and
“Well done, Colin, well done,” he wrote approvingly on Twitter on Monday evening.
Bernstein reserved his greatest contempt for publishers and editors who allowed their newspapers and networks “to become handmaidens to the intelligence services.” He didn’t spare his former employer, the Washington Post.
That was then.
A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shows that a full 59 percent of registered voters believe former CIA Director John Brennan should have lost his security clearance.
“Senator McCain was an exceptionally principled individual,” Brennan said in an interview with NBC News. “My last engagement with him, it was a very contentious one, where he hurled some profanities at me over some differences in policy.”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher and former CIA Director John Brennan argued that the US is in a third national crisis that is worse than the Great Depression. Maher said, “I think we are in
Former U.S. intelligence officials like John Brennan garner lucrative employment in the private sector based on their ability to maintain their government security clearances. Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner from the Government Accountability Institute explain this in an op-ed in the New York Post, detailing the revelations in Bruner’s new book, “Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption.”
Seamus Bruner, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) researcher and author of Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, explained how former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller leveraged their government contacts to enrich themselves. He joined Peter Schweizer, GAI president and Breitbart News senior editor-at-large, for an interview on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
President Donald Trump mused on Tuesday that perhaps former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suddenly criticized former Director of the CIA John Brennan to keep his security clearance.
On Monday’s edition of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” former Deputy Chief of Staff to George W. Bush Karl Rove stated that he doesn’t believe former CIA Director John Brennan has any legal case over the revocation of his
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said President Donald Trump was justified in revoking former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. According to Paul, Brennan should have had it revoked not just for what he
Monday on CNN’s “OutFront,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told fill-in host Poppy Harlow if former CIA Director John Brennan were making similar statements with regards to President Donald Trump that he was making on television in an airport, he might
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) stated that while he wouldn’t have gone that far, former CIA Director John Brennan was “within the reasonableness orbit” when he characterized President Trump’s performance in Helsinki as “treasonous.” Lieu also
President Donald Trump tweeted Monday morning that those former intelligence officials who had emerged publicly to defend former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Brennan had done so to protect their economic interests.
The establishment media did not care when the Obama administration called for the aggressive scrubbing of security clearances back in 2013.
Bloomberg’s Eli Lake refuted former CIA Director John Brennan’s claim that President Donald Trump is trying to “silence” him during an interview Monday on “Fox & Friends.” Lake argued the president is instead elevating Brennan as the “face” of resistance.
Monday, former Speaker Newt Gingrich ripped former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan, saying he “should never have been” in that position. Gingrich argued on “Fox & Friends” that Brennan is political, “lacking in common sense” and lied
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Brennan told NBC News’ Chuck Todd on Sunday’s Meet the Press that he learned since retiring that Russians began hacking Hillary Clinton’s emails on the day Donald Trump joked about it in July 2016.
The potential racism in a white contributor (Philip Mudd) telling a black contributor (Paris Dennard) to “get out” for telling the truth was somehow lost on CNN.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis expressed solidarity with President Trump’s stripping of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance earlier this week.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said Friday he intends to present an amendment to “block” President Trump from “arbitrarily revoking security clearances.”
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton stated that what frightens him about the removal of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance is the creation of a precedent that people in intelligence can’t speak
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he has a hard time getting worked up over the revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. Brooks said, “I mean, he’s politicized something that probably shouldn’t be
“He’s drunk on power. He really is, and I think he’s abusing the powers of that office,” Brennan said in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow after the president revoked his security clearance.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” former CIA Director John Brennan stated that he didn’t mean President Trump committed treason when he referred to the president’s performance at the Helsinki summit as “nothing short of treasonous.” Host Rachel
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” former CIA Director John Brennan stated that he has heard from lawyers who say “there is a very strong case” to take legal action to prevent the president from revoking more security
President Donald Trump said Friday he never respected former CIA director John Brennan, which was partially why he withdrew his security clearance.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Representative Scott Taylor (R-VA) stated that while former CIA Director John Brennan’s behavior has “skirted the line,” removing his security clearance is “a bad precedent.” Taylor said, “I think that, more to what
While speaking to reporters on Thursday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) criticized President Trump’s removal of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance as “kind of a banana republic kind of thing.” And part of a “tearing
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) stated that Republicans in Congress should stand up as patriots speak out against “McCarthy-era tactics” and denounce the revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. Van
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX) stated that the revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance is “a clear abuse of power,” and “a mark of an authoritarian dictator,” rather than a democratically-elected president.
Wednesday, conservative talker Mark Levin appeared on “Hannity” to share his reaction to President Donald Trump revoking former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance and the response by the media. “[W]e have never had a former Communist who, literally, we
CNN’s Jim Sciutto erroneously reported DNI Coats was not consulted in the decision to revoke ex-CIA Chief Brennan’s security clearance.
