Critics immediately tore into the former intel boss, with one calling him a “pathetic liar” about the laptop’s provenance.

Your name was also on the list, but it's not clear to me that you had a clearance, because I thought that the president, President Trump, tried to cancel your clearances back in 2018, if you want to clear that up.

He misrepresented the facts in that executive order because it said that we had suggested that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation,” Brennan said during an MSNBC interview.

Ex-CIA Director John Brennan wasted no time pointing fingers after his security clearance was reved, calling Trump’s move “bizarre.” President Trump continued on his roll of signing […]

Donald Trump has a day-one plan to punish the 51 intelligence officials who deemed the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation."

Trump took the action after the former officials said in 2020 that leaks from Hunter Biden laptop could be "a Russian information operation."

Washington — President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.

The letters signatories include - former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Former CIA Director Michael Hayden, former US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, former CIA Director John Brennan.

Lest anyone still have doubts, two ex-Politico reporters, Mark Caputo and Tara Palmeri, just confirmed how far the media went to protect Joe Biden prior to the 2020 presidential election.

The Hunter Biden laptop letter inspired the executive order that is Trump’s first shot in a war he has long promised against the “deep state”—that collection of CIA officers, FBI agents, and other career bureaucrats who he believes have conspired against him for nearly a decade.

Bolton did, however, publish before getting permission to do so, and anyone who has had a security clearance knows that dodging the review is a violation not just of the letter of one’s clearance conditions but also of the norms and instincts inculcated by the culture of national security.