MAJOR Trump slap-down!
His McCarthy-like behavior gets a stunning rebuke!,
Former intelligence chiefs rally around Brennan and slap down Trump
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“the president’s action regarding John Brennan and the threats of similar action against other former officials has nothing to do with who should and should not hold security clearances — and everything to do with an attempt to stifle free speech.”
“the ill-considered and unprecedented remarks and actions by the White House regarding the removal of John Brennan’s security clearances.” They praised Brennan’s service as a former head of the CIA and declared that “allegations of wrongdoing on the part of Brennan while in office are baseless.”
The letter was signed by former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper and former CIA directors Robert Gates, William H. Webster, George J. Tenet, Porter J. Goss, retired Gen. Michael V. Hayden, retired Gen. David H. Petraeus and Leon Panetta, as well as former deputy CIA directors Stephen R. Kappes, Michael J. Morell, Avril Haines, John E. McLaughlin and David S. Cohen. It is an impressive and unprecedented bipartisan defense of American values and due process by intelligence experts who have held the highest positions in Democratic and Republican administrations going back to 1987. No president has so abused his power over security clearances as to warrant such a unified response.