{"id":11339,"date":"2018-08-19T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11339"},"modified":"2018-08-19T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:30:54","slug":"john-brennans-security-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/john-brennans-security-clearance\/","title":{"rendered":"John Brennan\u2019s Security Clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p>Scarier than former CIA chief John Brennan losing his security clearance is the idea that he ever had one in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps to avoid the appearance of partisanship in pulling the security clearances of former intelligence chiefs, the Trump administration should now abide by some sort of universal nonpartisan standard. I suggest that the following sort of improper conduct, either during or after one\u2019s tenure, might result in the loss of a security clearance:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0<strong>Lying to Congress.<\/strong>\u00a0Brennan lied to Congress on at least two occasions (cf. his denial of CIA surveillance of Senate staffer computers and the claim of an absence of collateral damage in drone attacks), and perhaps three (his absurd denial of knowledge of the seeding of the Steele dossier among government agencies). Democrats used to be outraged by Brennan\u2019s deceit, and a few in the past had called for his resignation. Note that James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence, has also misled Congress, concerning NSA surveillance of American citizens. Clapper has admitted such (e.g., \u201cthe least untruthful\u201d answer).\u00a0<em>Not lying to Congress is a pretty low bar to meet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/john-brennan-security-clearance-revocation\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Scarier than former CIA chief John Brennan losing his security clearance is the idea that he ever had one in the first place. Perhaps to avoid the appearance of partisanship in pulling the security clearances of former intelligence chiefs, the Trump administration should now abide by some sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1194,1159,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2WT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":718,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/brennans-testimony-and-waterboarding-misinformation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11339,"position":0},"title":"Brennan&#8217;s Testimony and Waterboarding Misinformation","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Bruce S. 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Yet the Obama Administration\u2019s four top security and intelligence officials time and again engaged in untruth, as if peddling lies was part of their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comey&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comey","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/comey\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11096,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-unelected-officials-distortions\/","url_meta":{"origin":11339,"position":2},"title":"Our Unelected Officials\u2019 Distortions","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review On March 17, former CIA director John Brennan tweeted about the current president of the United States: \u201cWhen the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Samantha Power&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Samantha Power","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/samantha-power\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11215,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-reply-to-ronald-radoshs-smear\/","url_meta":{"origin":11339,"position":3},"title":"A Reply to Ronald Radosh\u2019s Smear","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In a strange attack on my criticism of former CIA director John Brennan\u2019s lack of veracity, Ron Radosh\u00a0alleges\u00a0that I have engaged in a sort of conspiracy theory about the deep state. He quotes me in an article largely devoted to Jerome Corsi\u2019s new book,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CIA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CIA","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/cia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11713,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/learning-to-love-the-deep-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":11339,"position":4},"title":"Learning to Love the Deep State","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In the 1970s, the military officer corps and the top ranks of the CIA, DOJ, and FBI were, in the eyes of the Left, synonymous with\u00a0Seven Days in May\u2014 and\u00a0Manchurian Candidate\u2013like conspiracies. 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