Why does Brennan think he is special when it comes to security clearance?

Kurt Schlichter:

Help, I’m being oppressed! My freedom of speech was been utterly stripped from me because when I retired from the Army those fascist monsters took away my TOP SECRET security clearance. See, a security clearance is a special privilege I should be entitled to exploit for as long as I want to because… well, shut up peasant, that’s why. I learned this in my Con Law class, right after we studied the Constitution’s text enumerating the rights to abortion, wedding cake baking servitude, and to be called by the bizarre pronoun of your – I mean “xir” – choice.

Oh wait, all of that – except the giving up my clearance part – is utter nonsense.

But John Brennan, that hack, and his elite pals are supposed to get the special privilege of keeping it. Why? As a professional courtesy. See, security clearances are things you pass out as favors or rewards, I guess, at least among the elite. Courtesy among them, nothing for you, though. You aren’t special. You’re just some guy serving his country and not turning it into a profit center on the outside. Like a sucker.

I got my clearance for the same reason you readers who got one got yours –because I needed it to do my job in the service of our country. And when I stopped needing it because I was no longer doing a job in the service of my country, I didn’t get to keep it to inflate my value as a pundit or “consultant.” Mine went away. As did yours, I’ll wager. The chances are pretty infinitesimal that you are one of the special somebodies who get handed power and privilege not to serve our country but as a perk for being part of the in-crowd.
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I too once handled top secret material when I was an officer in the Marine Corps.  It never crossed my mind that I would still have access to top secret material after I got out.  I locked away in my mind what I had seen and never discussed it with anyone in the 50 years since that time. I never put it on a resume when I was looking for a job.

As I understand it, people like Brennan got to keep there so they could communicate with their successors should an issue arise about something they handled in the past.  To my knowledge, Brennan was not doing that.  He was monetizing the access and using it in hostile comments about the new administration.  In other words, he was not using it for the supposed purpose it was intended.

Brennan's animus toward Trump was so obvious that it is unlikely that the President would actually want his input.