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“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.”

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.

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

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.

Former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan published an op-ed in the New York Times on Thursday arguing that President Donald Trump had stripped his security credentials on Wednesday to cover up his campaign’s collusion with Russia in 2016.

Former President Barack Obama’s national security advisor Susan Rice voiced her support for former CIA director John Brennan after President Donald Trump removed his security clearance.

Hillary Clinton’s longtime adviser Philippe Reines asserts  former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance being revoked “confirms” the existence of an audio recording with President Donald Trump uttering the n-word.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) stated that the revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance is “a striking move towards authoritarianism.” Beyer said, “[T]his is a striking move towards authoritarianism. You know,

While speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) stated that the White House revoking former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance “smacks of Nixonian-type practices of trying to silence anyone who’s willing to criticize

Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Brennan called President Donald Trump’s decision Wednesday to revoke his security clearance an “attempt to suppress freedom of speech” and to “punish critics.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” former CIA Director John Brennan reacted to the revocation of his security clearance by stating he believes the action is intended to “intimidate and suppress” criticism of the Trump administration and that

On Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reacted to the revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance and the prospect of the White House revoking other security clearances by saying the bigger issue is an

A handful of Hollywood personalities immediately began to fume over President Donald Trump’s Wednesday announcement that he would revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.

The White House announced Wednesday that the administration is revoking former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance.