Backlash against Trump grows as almost 200 former US intelligence officials sign letter over Brennan

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Backlash against Trump grows as almost 200 former US intelligence officials sign letter over Brennan security revocation
'He won't sue!' the president claims on Twitter after the former CIA director mulled legal action against Mr Trump
Mythili Sampathkumar New York @MythiliSk 1 hour ago

Nearly 200 former US officials have signed a statement protesting Donald Trump’s removal of former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance, as the backlash against the president from intelligence agencies grew.

State Department and Pentagon officials filled the list, which includes 15 former directors and deputy directors of the CIA and Office of Director of National Intelligence. Opposition came from both sides of the political divide, taking in former officials who had worked for both Democrats and Republicans.

Mr Trump revoked security clearance for Mr Brennan on 15 August and the 62-year-old former official, who served under both former presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama, said he was considering legal action against the president.

"I am going to do whatever I can to try to prevent these abuses in the future, and if it means going to court, I will do that," Mr Brennan said on NBC’s Meet the Press programme.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/john-brennan-security-clearance-revoked-donald-trump-cia-director-a8499606.html

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1. Trump threatens to sue and then doesn't because he uses threats of litigation

just to intimidate people. Therefore he assumes other people's threats of litigation are equally empty. He should not assume this, especially about a guy like Brennan.