.MaddowBlog: Remember when Pres. Trump said he’d revoked John Brennan’s security clearance?
Last summer, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that Donald Trump was considering a bold move. As the president’s chief spokesperson acknowledged at the time, Trump was considering revoking the security clearances of former intelligence officials who’ve criticized him, raising the specter, as NBC News put it, of a president “using his office to lash out at his political enemies.
Sen. Bob Corker , the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman at the time, described Trump’s move as “a banana republic kind of thing.”In late August 2018, Brennan appeared on MSNBC and explained that in the wake of the White House’s announcement, he hadn’t heard from any officials, in any capacity, notifying him about his status. “Whether or not my clearances have been stripped, I’m still uncertain about,” he said.
They accelerated in July when the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said that the administration was considering revoking the clearances of Mr. Comey, John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director under President Barack Obama; Michael V. Hayden, who was a C.I.A. director under President George W. Bush; and others.
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