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What was in John Brennan’s emails?

In 2015, WikiLeaks published a tranche of emails hacked from the account of future CIA Director John Brennan. Among the documents was “The Conundrum of Iran,” a draft paper, on U.S. policy toward Iran that Brennan wrote in July 2007, with recommendations for the next president. When Barack Obama was elected, Brennan became national security adviser,...

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Former CIA Officer Makes the Case for Stripping Former Officials of their Security Clearances 

In Consortium News, John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who went to jail for telling a reporter about the agency’s torture program, argues that security  clearances for retired official has “abuse written all over it.” I think Trump is using the clearance issue as a means to get control the intelligence community,  but Kiriakou’s questions are...