John Brennan’s security clearance revoked: is Donald Trump silencing his critics?

Move appears to be in retaliation to criticism of US president by the former director of the CIA

Donald Trump has revoked the security clearance of a former CIA director John Brennan
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Donald Trump has revoked the security clearance of a former director of the CIA, in an unusual move that appears to be politically motivated.

The White House announced yesterday that former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance would be pulled, which CNN says is an “unprecedented use of a president’s authority over the classification system to strike back at one of his prominent critics”.

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