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Former CIA Director John Brennan is shown wearing a suit and red tie departing from a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, May 2018.

Trump revokes ex-CIA chief’s security clearance, slamming critic

Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke his security clearance was part of an effort to silence critics.

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says President Trump's disclosure of classified information to Russian diplomats has put the national security bureaucracy on its back foot.

It’s not like Trump’s ‘whispering this to Theresa May,’ laments a former CIA chief

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Former NSA director says this White House can’t handle the truth

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Former director of the NSA and CIA, Michael Hayden, at a cyber security conference in 2014

Former CIA chief calls Trump ‘Moscow’s useful idiot’

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CIA Director Michael Hayden speaks to reporters upon his arrival in the Capitol for a meeting with the House Appropriations Committee's Select Intelligence Oversight Subcommittee, in Washington December 13, 2007.

Ex-CIA director to Trump: ‘Bring your own bucket’ if you want to waterboard

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