The following article by John T. Bennett was posted on the Roll Call website August 20, 2018:
President wants former CIA director’s ‘records, texts, emails and documents’
Donald Trump on Monday essentially dared former CIA Director John Brennan to sue him over the security clearance the president revoked last week.
Trump ordered Brennan’s security clearance turned off after the former Barack Obama aide and Cabinet official harshly criticized the sitting president, even dubbing his performance last month alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin as “treasonous.”
Brennan told MSNBC Friday night he is “thinking” about taking Trump to court over the matter, saying, “As you can imagine, a number of lawyers have reached out to say there is a very strong case here, not so much to reclaim mine but to prevent this from happening in the future. And so, I am thinking about what it is that I might want to do.”