Maybe Clapper is not that much of a friend to Brennan, after all.

Even James Clapper is coming to believe that Brennan's big mouth is becoming a problem.  

 Megan Keller / The Hill: Clapper: Brennan's rhetoric is becoming an issue

 "John and his rhetoric have become an issue in and of itself," Clapper said on CNN's "State of the Union." "John is subtle like a freight train and he’s gonna say what’s on his mind." 

Clapper's comments came in response to an op-ed penned by Brennan in The New York Times this week, in which he wrote . . . . . 
. . . . . .   that President Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.


Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) on Thursday took aim at Brennan for "purport[ing] to know, as fact, that the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power."  It is more than obvious that Brennan has no such "insider" knowledge.

“If his statement is based on intelligence he has seen since leaving office, it constitutes an intelligence breach. If he has some other personal knowledge of or evidence of collusion, it should be disclosed to the special counsel, not The New York Times,” Burr said.

Most critically,  Chairman Burr added that Trump has the “full authority” to rescind security clearance if the statements were “purely political and based on conjecture.”