“CIA Director John Brennan seems to have concluded that with his patron/president gone, he (Brennan) will be “thrown under the bus,” as smart people say – and do – in Washington.  If the Trump administration folks are as vindictive as Brennan fears (and he has given them lot to be vindictive about), there is much to blame Brennan for, including serious crimes.”

Ray McGovern — Former CIA Analyst (January 12 2017)

Former CIA Director John Brennan

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UPDATE (November 13 2018) — In February 2018, I wrote: “John Brennan has called Trump a grave risk to the US National Security. Then, he went on to call Trump’s words a national disgrace. How much worse can this situation become?”

On August 15 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump revoked the security clearance of John Brennan.

Trump added that he will also review the security clearances of several other former ranking government officials with a view toward revoking them.

James Clapper, James Comey, Michael Hayden, Sally Yates, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr were mentioned explicitly by Sarah Sanders. Surprisingly, former CIA director Mike Morell is not on Trump’s blacklist?

In the summer of 2016, Mike Morell endorsed Hillary Clinton over Trump. In a revealing self-critical interview, Morell finally acknowledged in December 2017 that he — as well a several other former CIA directors all highly critical of the US president — had failed to fully “think through the negative backlash generated by their going political”.

“In August of 2016, I became political, when I endorsed Hillary Clinton with an op-ed in The New York Times. (…) I was concerned about what is the impact it would have on the agency. (…)  But I don’t think I fully thought through the implications.”

I guess that a little ‘mea culpa’ can still go a long way…

END of UPDATE

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan fired back at President Trump calling them and former FBI director James Comey “political hacks” and addressed President Trump’s comments on Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

“First of all, he was referring to us as political hacks because he was trying to delegitimize the intelligence assessment that was done,” Brennan told CNN’s State of the Union.

“By not confronting the issue directly and not acknowledging to Putin: ‘We know that you’re responsible for this,’ I think he’s giving Putin a pass.”

“And I think it demonstrates to Mr Putin that Donald Trump can be played by foreign leaders who are going to be appeal to his ego and try to play upon his insecurities, which is very, very worrisome from a national security standpoint.”

“Considering the source of the criticism, I consider that criticism a badge of honour.”

“To impugn the character of somebody like Jim Clapper on Veteran’s Day, who has dedicated so much of his life to this country, I just find that outrageous. I think it’s something Mr Trump should be ashamed of, but it doesn’t seem that anything that he does he feels any shame of whatsoever.”

On January 3 2017,  Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that President-elect Donald Trump was “being really dumb” by taking on the US intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities.

“Let me tell you, you take on the [US] intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

“So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”

And here we are… Between Trump and the US IC, “Rien ne va plus.”

Ex-intelligence chiefs fire back at Trump criticism

REFERENCES

Brennan Increasingly Desperate — Ray McGovern

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Ex-CIA Director John Brennan: “Trump criticism a badge of honor.”

One Year Ago — Ex-CIA Director John Brennan: “Trump criticism a badge of honor.”