Something is Amiss

The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal did not like the President's action to revoke the security clearance of the former CIA Director, John Brennan.  They thought it would be better just to declassify the FISA warrant application so the US people could see for themselves what was really going on.  There has to be more than this than the simple analysis by the Editorial Board.

I always wondered if Brennan got his public statements approved before they were said out loud to the public.  No government would allow a former employee to say some of the things he had said, which leads me to conclude that he didn't ask for permission. Since he had the types of clearances that required that, he was playing on the edge to begin with.  He played the "I know something you don't know" game for a long time, insinuating that the President was directly involved with the Russians and therefore had a presidency that was not legitimate.  If he knew that for sure from material he had read at the CIA, the information would have been classified at the highest levels and certainly not releasable to the press or public.  Somebody would have warned him to not do that anymore, yet there seems to be no let up of any kind.

Beyond that, I wonder what the White House knows about Brennan's post Director actions, and what involvement he had in the preparation of the FISA warrant application.  By now, several Congressmen with access to the un-redacted warrant and the FBI's classified portion of the I.G. report have been discussing the aspects with the White House.  They know what is really going on, but we don't.  Something is really amiss here.  The Editorial Board starts with an unusual, but accurate statement:
"John Brennan is one of the fiercest partisans ever to serve as CIA director."   The US certainly does not need that precedent for others to follow.  Just a reminder that two people signed a memorandum that allowed dissemination of highly classified information within the Obama Administration - far more than had ever been done before.  Those two were John Brennan and Loretta Lynch.