"When John Brennan makes unsubstantiated allegations like Vladimir Putin could blackmail the president of the United States, and he says those things while he's still holding a top-secret clearance, foreign spies upon whom the U.S. intelligence community relies to steal secrets on our behalf ... might assume Brennan knows something the rest of us do not," said Daniel Hoffman, a retired CIA senior clandestine services officer. "In my view, Brennan has been wildly irresponsible, but it would be [up to] the security experts to determine whether he, in fact, mishandled classified [information] or should no longer be trusted with classified information."
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Former CIA Moscow station chief Daniel Hoffman said Ms. Haspel was "in a unique position to strengthen the agency's relationship with the State Department by virtue of the fact that she just worked very closely with Mike Pompeo for the past year and a half at the CIA and he is now secretary of state."
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