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If John were to say, look, I know stuff because I was the CIA director

and I saw some stuff that you guys haven't seen yet.

You people out in the public, I do think that is across the credential limit.

So Jack and I, I think are in agreement probably in the concept and maybe different in the application.

Yeah, I actually think the line is a little different than that.

I think, obviously Brennan has not said anything that extreme.

The problem is that in his tweets and in some of his writings and some of his television appearances,

he just hasn't made it clear whether he's relying on information that he had inside the government.

And sometimes in my judgment, he implies that some of his judgments are based on what he saw

that have been confirmed by what's on the outside.

So I think that Putin's commands much more caution.

I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast August 28, 2018.

This is a peculiar edition of the LawFair podcast.

It grows out of a exchange on email between David Chris and Jack Goldsmith

over a draft article Jack had written about John Brennan and other intelligence community

former leaders who were criticizing the president in public and whom the president was threatening to pull their security clearances in response.

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