Brennan Considers Suing Trump to Prevent Clearance Revocations

Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan is considering suing the Trump administration to prevent any further security clearance revocations.

While speaking to NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Brennan explained that he has been contacted by numerous lawyers about a possible injunction after President Trump stripped him of his clearance last week.

“If my clearances and my reputation as I’m being pulled through the mud now, if that’s the price we’re going to pay to prevent Donald Trump from doing this against other people, to me it’s a small price to pay,” Brennan said. “So I am going to do whatever I can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future. And if it means going to court, I will do that.”

Brennan’s potential legal move would be a protest against Trump’s threat to take away clearances from nine other current and former U.S. intelligence officials, including James Clapper, Jim Comey, and Bruce Ohr.

The former CIA head labeled Trump’s decision to take his clearance as an “egregious abuse of power and authority” and suggested that decision was not for the right reasons.

Brennan’s clearance was taken away one day after he attacked the President on Twitter, saying:

Last week, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders read a statement on behalf of the president during the start of a press briefing, saying Brennan “has a history that calls his credibility into question.”

The statement also claimed Brennan, who now works for NBC, had been “leveraging” the clearance to make “wild outbursts” and claims against the Trump administration in the media.

“The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that’s what he’s doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action,” Sanders said.

Senator Rand Paul cheered the revocation after he had directly lobbied the President to make the decision.

In response to the revocation, Brennan cried foul, claiming the president was suppressing free speech.

The former CIA director has come under heat for a reoccurring theme of what Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton called “unhinged” tweets criticizing the president.

Brennan infamously called the meeting between Russian President Vladimir and Trump as “nothing short of treason,” a statement he stood by on Sunday while speaking to NBC’s Chuck Todd.

Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael Mullen, has called Brennan’s public anti-Trump rhetoric damaging to the intelligence community.