There\u2019s more than meets the eye to President Donald Trump\u2019s decision\u00a0to revoke the security clearances that ex-CIA Director John Brennan enjoyed as a courtesy customarily afforded former directors. The President\u2019s move is the second major sign that Brennan is about to be hoisted on his own petard. It is one embroidered with rhetoric charging Trump with treason and, far more important, with documents now in the hands of congressional investigators showing Brennan\u2019s ringleader role in the so-far unsuccessful attempts to derail Trump both before and after the 2016 election.<\/p>\n
Brennan will fight hard to avoid being put on trial but will need united support from his Deep State co-conspirators\u2013a dubious proposition. One of Brennan\u2019s major concerns at this point has to be whether the \u201chonor-among-thieves\u201d ethos will prevail, or whether some or all of his former partners in crime will latch onto the opportunity to \u201cconfess\u201d to investigators: \u201cBrennan made me do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well before\u00a0Monday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0night, when Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani let a small bomb drop on Brennan, there was strong evidence that Brennan had been quarterbacking illegal operations against Trump.\u00a0 Giuliani added fuel to the fire when he told Sean Hannity of Fox news:<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to tell you who orchestrated, who was the quarterback for all this. \u2026 The guy running it is Brennan, and he should be in front of a grand jury.\u00a0 Brennan took \u2026 a dossier that, unless he\u2019s the biggest idiot intelligence agent that ever lived \u2026 it\u2019s false; you can look at it and laugh at it. And he peddled it to [then Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid, and that led to the request for the investigation.\u00a0So you take a false dossier, get senators involved, and you get a couple of Republican senators, and they demand an…<\/p>\n