Last week President Trump revoked the security clearance of former Obama CIA Director John Brennan.  The revocation sparked criticism from many quarters, most of it ridiculous cries that taking away Brennan’s clearance was an attempt to curtail his First Amendment right to speak out against the President.  Nonsense.  The frantic complaints ignore the most basic and most important reality – John Brennan’s conduct, at and since leaving the CIA has demonstrated that he can’t be trusted with a security clearance.  Brennan is the charter member, perhaps more precisely, the creator of the Trump Resistance movement.  That is, Brennan decided in early 2016 that he would use his office at CIA to prevent Donald Trump from being elected President.  That’s what is known in other countries as a coup.  He had several potential motivations for his hatred of Trump.  Perhaps, as a convert to Islam, he recoiled at Trump’s proposal that immigration from Islamic nations be curtailed until immigrants could be properly vetted.  Clearly, Brennan wanted to keep his job as CIA Director, and the only way that could happen was for Hillary to win.  Whatever the motivation, Brennan had the CIA make contact with Carter Page and George Papadopolous, to plant the information that would be the basis of the FISA warrants, along with the phony dossier that Christopher Steele says was written by Russian intelligence sources.  Brennan leaked the dossier to the media.  Brennan hand carried his investigation to the FBI, and supervised a multi-agency working group at CIA that ran the domestic investigation.  Every step of the way, Brennan tried to stop Trump’s election, and since his victory, he has been working to get Trump impeached.  Along the way, the former CIA Director became a member of the media, working for CNN, and constantly appeared there, and on MSNBC, to trash the President.  Brennan bashed the President with comments such as:  he was “deeply saddened and angered” by President Donald Trump’s “despicable display of self-aggrandizement;” called him “unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical;” accused President Trump of political corruption; “When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history”… “You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but will not destroy America … America will triumph over you;” “Your simple minded policies — imposition of tariffs — have the potential to seriously damage our future prosperity;” he said Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin was “nothing short of treasonous.” (He later strangely argued that calling Trump nothing short of treasonous didn’t mean he was a traitor).  There was a time when Democrats were unalterably opposed to the notion of anyone from the CIA trying to affect a U.S. election.  Hell, Democrats used to be unalterably opposed to the CIA even doing its job overseas.  But now, so long as it might hurt Donald Trump, Democrats not only are willing to accept the facts that the CIA manufactured fake evidence, meddled in a presidential election, illegally conducted an investigation of Americans on U.S. soil, and then tried to stage a coup, indeed they are absolutely giddy about it.  So overpowering is their hatred of Trump, that the Democrats wholeheartedly support Brennan’s corruption of the CIA, the corruption of the FBI, where some 26 high ranking officials have either been fired, quit or were demoted, and the corruption of the Justice Department, which perverted the law to clear Hillary, then twisted it again to frame Trump.  Hillary mishandled classified documents, lied about it, destroyed subpoenaed evidence, lied about that, paid foreign intelligence operatives to concoct a phony dossier on Trump, and got her operatives in the Justice Department to use it to spy on the Trump campaign, and Democrats don’t care – nothing to see there.  Meanwhile, as I write this, the Left is trying to impeach President Trump for paying money to former girlfriends for non-disclosure agreements, which are legal contracts.  But I digress.  Former government officials get to keep their security clearances for the convenience of the government, not for their own convenience.  A former CIA Director going to work for the media ought to be enough to get your clearance revoked.  CIA regulations say a former official can keep his clearance in retirement if he conducts himself as a current CIA employee is required to act.  CIA Directors are not in the habit of going on the air, much less of accusing the President of treason.  Former officials keep clearances so that, if the new Administration wants to consult and get advice, they can share new classified data.  Brennan has proven himself too unhinged to be a source of reasonable advice, and he’s the last person the Trump Administration would want to consult.  Times have changed.  In the 1950’s Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance was revoked, principally because he opposed building hydrogen bombs, on the unproven pretext that his opposition might be motivated by a desire to help Russia.  Obama installed Brennan as CIA Director although he previously voted for the Communist Party.  Brennan regards the loss of his clearance as political retaliation to silence him.  It’s understandable.  Brennan practiced such retaliation against the heroes who tried to save our ambassador to Libya during the Benghazi attack, when Obama, Hillary and Brennan left everyone to die.  Brennan stripped the surviving Navy Seals of their clearances to keep them quiet.  He is a ruthless prick, who’s trying to destroy the President before his own crimes are exposed.  This is really a simple proposition.  If you broke numerous laws while at the CIA, and are actively trying to overthrow the legitimately elected government, you don’t deserve a clearance.  The lack of a clearance doesn’t stop Brennan from running his mouth, but he deserves nothing from the government he’s trying to overthrow.