Senate GOP mixed on revoking Brennan’s security clearance

Published August 15, 2018 11:11pm ET



Some Republicans endorsed President Trump’s decision Wednesday to revoke former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. Others said it was a bad idea.

“It just feels like a banana republic kind of step,” Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a frequent Trump critic, told reporters. “I don’t like it at all. It feels really vindictive.”

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