Security Clearances Are Not a Right

Then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and then-Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan (L-R) testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10, 2017. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The White House has proposed removing security clearances for former heads of intelligence agencies, specifically those who have publicly and aggressively attacked not just President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, but his loyalty to the country he leads, and have, conveniently, monetized their criticisms.

Those primarily in that limelight are former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan.