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Situation room photo from the night of the bin laden raid? john brennan. you see in the upper right-hand corner. president obama's homeland security adviser taking part in one of the most important operations in american history. that man has now been stripped of his security clearance by a president seeking revenge. don lemon is here. and this is very interesting because on one level you could easily argue this is nothing, they don't need it, clapper will say it, hayden will say it, brennan may be saying it right now on tv for all i know. we don't use it anymore, it doesn't matter. but it com...

Intelligence leaders like john brennan, like director clapper out there as strongly opinionated as they are. the reason they're doing that is because, as they say, they're so concerned about what's going on in our country. i profiled director clapper when he was the director of national intelligence. i spent four months with him trying to get him to say a single interesting, controversial opinion under any circumstances about anything. couldn't do it. the fact that john brennan, jim clapper, mike hayden sounding the alarm bells in the way they are should chill us as americans. >> julia, you co...

Involved here, are under serious assault. and this is going to get worse before it gets better, i predict. and i felt a duty, an obligation to speak up because of that long history of defending these things i think are extremely important for this country. and sure, at my advanced age i'd just as soon dance offstage but i feel a duty and an obligation to speak up. i think john and mike and others feel the same way. >> you can do your dancing on your own time you've got a lot of gas left in the tank and we need you on this show on a regular basis. >> the irony, chris, just one brief comment, is...

Fbi, not the cia. okay? comey was in charge of the fbi. brennan was cia. he says he didn't even learn about the dossier for half a year after the investigation started. all right? what does that tell us? it tells us this is just about political payback. then who do we have next? michael hayden. you also see him here on cnn. the former director of national security, the national security agency, and the cia director. those are two really big jobs. what has he done? he's compared trump's policies to those in nazi germany. so his crime, well, none in terms of the probe. he didn't really play any ...

Critics. i don't think as we've seen this morning with john brennan's op-ed it won't be successful in silencing those who are threatened and on what does appear to be an enemies list. the thing i'm most concerned about, though, john is not about john brennan's security clearance, jim clapper's or mine or any former officials. the concern i have is the message this sends to career intelligence officials, career intelligence professionals and law enforcement professionals whose job it is to do independent work free from political influence, whose job it is to speak truth to power. to tell the un...