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Convinced that brennan's behavior warranted the termination of that privilege. listen here. >> it was my view at the time that he and others in the obama administration were politicizing intelligence. i think that's a very dangerous thing to do. i think especially for senior intelligence officials, career intelligence officials who come out of the government to keep that law of separation between intelligence and policy. and i don't think brennan has followed that and you know, whether he actually used classified information, i think people will be able to determine. >> john bolton right there...

Happening on foreign intelligence services and others who look at the united states, what kinds of questions are they asking themselves as they watch this spectacle? >> i suspect they look at this as they looked at other recent episodes here where you have the president taking a position that is contrary to the intelligence community and his national security establishment and, again, they see a president going off in one direction, sort of attacking the intelligence community. because that's what this is. this is in some respects about john brennan but i think even more so is about politicali...

The very intensive vetting process that career intelligence officials and political appointees go through. they didn't -- you know, as soon as you got elected, once you swore an oath, you were entitled to view classified information. you didn't have the fbi calling up ex-girlfriends and former roommates and verifying former locations where you lived and asking them questions about whether you were a potential terrorist. you got access to that information because you were a senator. >> and the answer is that is correct. we do not have to go through the clearance process. but we don't get access...

>> let's bray in rick santorum. is this a strong arm tactic? is this how he wants to role? you come at me, you're messing with power. >> no. i don't think so at all. the larger issue is why does he get security clearances anyway. i sat on important committees that got lots of intelligence. as soon as i left the united states senate i lost my security clearance. i don't know why they keep the security clearances in the first place. >> he's not getting -- >> hold on. >> i want to clarify. to my knowledge and correct me if i'm wrong members of congress and senators do not go through the very inte...

First of all, i think when you've got people who are career intelligence and military officials, people who have served the nation, distinguished and for such a long period of time, making comments as they did, i think they're looking to ensure that free speech is not squashed and this does not turn into a political issue. i think the text of their comments are strongly worded, and it is done so specifically to ensure that this type of action doesn't occur again. it works against national interests. it appears to have done politically rather than for clear, pure, national security interests. >...