Claim to Fame: senior United States Senator from North Carolina, serving since 2005
Why He's the Person of the Week: for coming out strongly in defense of President Trump's decision to revoke former CIA director/political hack/resident MSNBC Trump-hater John Brennan's security clearance.
In a statement, the Senator, who's also the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, cited a New York Times op-ed published Thursday, after Brennan’s security was revoked, in which Brennan wrote that Trump’s claims of no collusion were "hogwash," saying the only remaining questions were whether the collusion amounted to a criminal conspiracy and whether the Trump team obstructed justice in order to cover up the collusion Brennan alleged.
Burr said that if in fact Brennan had information that proved the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power, he should have provided that information to special counsel Robert Mueller, rather than writing about it in a newspaper.
Burr also asked that if Brennan had had direct knowledge of collusion during his CIA tenure, he should have included it in the intelligence community’s 2017 assessment of Russian interference, released just before Brennan resigned. If Brennan learned information after he left office, Burr said it would constitute an intelligence breach.
"If, however, Director Brennan’s statement is purely political and based on conjecture, the president has full authority to revoke his security clearance as head of the Executive Branch," Burr’s statement continued.
Yesterday, Brennan, who despite having a gig on MSNBC and a prominent Twitter profile, continues to make the ridiculous claim that Trump is trying to 'silence' him, walked back his insipid comment that Trump had committed 'treason' during his recent press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
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