Susan rice and the same for andrew mccabe, lisa page, and bruce orr. Everyone on that list is a critic or someone the president locked horns with, a point not lost in the White House Briefing room. How can americans not interpret that as a getting back against his critics and isnt it also an attempt to curtail the freedom of speech by penalizing them for being critical . Not at all. The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it. He is fulfilling that responsibility. This is specific to mr. Brennan and the others are currently under review. Keeping him honest, we are learning intelligence officials are not involved in the president s decision, not the top ranking official. Jim schutto learned that dan coates was not consulted on the brennan decision and whoever had to proof read the president s statement was taken off good. They missed this. Its dated the 26th of last month suggesting the president meat the decision back the