If anything confirms the deep state (which I think is what Ayn Rand was trying to warn us of), it is this, someone treading on their military service to appear offended because they want to keep their access so they can go on TV and be brilliant talking gasbags. Another corrupted senior officer. Ask yourself, why does ANYONE need a security clearance AFTER they leave the job? ALL security systems are founded on one basic principle: Need to know. How can someone who has left that position have a need to know? We ALWAYS terminated security clearances of people who left the submarine command precisely because of need to know, which no longer existed. The only reason anyone would WANT to keep one: access to secrets you can use to sell yourself, manipulate others and be a self important, pompous ass. Brennan is a traitor, Comey is one too. They abused their power, then set themselves up with their access to sell to the higest bidder. Brennan needed a high level security clearance so he could consult for CNN? Really? You think this is at all realistic?

If anything, this is concrete proof of what is going on, and how people get power and then abuse it for themselves, and will sell us out along the way. ALL clearances should be revoked immediately, if that person is not in the position for which it was granted. Common sense.