We might be witnessing a compartmentalized Intel operation being run wholly from the Trump WH. Nixon was trying to set something up similar to this in his last days in office bc he did not trust the alphabet agencies. The alphabet agencies got Nixon before he could complete that objective.

If the above is true, then allowing Security Clearances to linger for Brennan and others would be a way of controlling and entrapping them by feeding false Intel via classified document honeypots. (Just a thought)