Target. Sally yates clashed with the president. He fired her. Susan rice, same guess for former fbi officials andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page and bruce ohr. Everyone on that list is either a critic or someone the president has locked horns with, a point not lost today in the White House Briefing room. How can american s not interpret that as not getting back against his critics . And isnt it an attempt to curtail their freedom of speech by penalizing them for being critical on television . Not at all. The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it. And thats what hes doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action. This is actionally specific to mr. Brennan, and the others are currently under review. Keeping them honest, however, we are now learning some key professionals appear not to be involved in the president s decision, at least not the nations top ranking official. Dan coats, the director of National Int