Although the former CIA director enjoyed a lot of support from his former colleagues in the intelligence community after US President Donald Trump stripped him of his security clearance, the news also caused a stir among a number of widely known special operations stars, who suggested Brennan deserved it and even got off cheap.
“He is lucky the security clearance is all he is getting away with,” Kris “Tanto” Paronto, a former Army Ranger and private security staffer who fought back during the 2012 Benghazi terror attack as part of the CIA team, told Fox News in an interview on Friday.
Separately, in response to former CIA Director John Brennan's earlier tweet that his “principles are worth far more than clearances,” Paronto fired back:
“My principles are greater than clearances too John, especially when you and the @CIA kool-aid drinkers punishes us for not going along with the Benghazi cover-up story in order to protect you, @HillaryClinton's & @BarackObama's failures. You put your politics before us.”
Paronto contributed the book “13 Hours,” which was later turned into a feature film about the Benghazi attack. He subsequently said that he and his team unjustly lost their security clearances, reportedly for speaking out, although he claimed that hadn't shared any classified information about the attack.
“Normally when you have a clearance suspended, you're supposed to know…
