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    Trump considers yanking security clearances of former officials who have criticized him

    by Chris Megerian and Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Jul 24, 2018 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of at least half a dozen well-known former national security officials, his spokeswoman said Monday, in an extraordinary expression of his desire to punish increasingly vocal critics from past administrations.

    Among the president's targets, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, are former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper and former national security adviser Susan Rice, who all served under President Barack Obama.

    She also named Michael Hayden, who was head of the National Security Agency and then CIA director under President George W. Bush, as well as James B. Comey, the former FBI

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