What Is John Brennan Hiding?
Pulling Their Clearances Is Only the Start – It’s Time to Stamp out Elite Privilege
Kurt Schlichter
It is time to reorder who exactly needs a national security clearance and why. It should be based on a need to know. Former government workers rarely have a need to know. Brennan threatening to sue the President over his revoked clearance is typical of his arrogant entitlement mentality. A security clearance is not a right, it’s a privilege that can be revoked by the commander in chief at any time. He doesn’t need a reason. He did it in the interest of national security.
It has been reported that 4 million people hold a national security clearance and 1 million have top security clearance status. Someone in Congress needs to ask why. If that many people have access to national secrets then how safe are those secrets? How many of those holding security clearance no longer work in government? People leaving government maintain security clearance for economic gain and status. Nothing else. That status gives you a leg up in applying for government grants, non profit start-ups, jobs in the private sector and book deals. That needs to end. No one should be able to monetize prior government service by holding onto a security clearance. When you leave government, your security clearance should end short of some non anecdotal reason to maintain it.
John Brennan is certainly free to engage in raw politics. He can do it now with a clean break from his prior government service.
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