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The personnel office director also cleared 30 other people in the Trump administration. The House Oversight Committee is investigating.
The probe is one of the first to target the Trump administration since Democrats took control of the House.
"Come forward ... or resign," White House counselor tells Christiane Amanpour.
The Congressional Leadership Fund got the information through a mishandled Freedom of Information Act request.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The president suggested that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper “is being nice to me” to prevent the removal of his security clearance.
Ironically, the White House national security adviser has been accused of spinning intelligence for political purposes.
The Senate homeland security chairman seemed to defend Trump on pulling the ex-CIA chief's security clearance, but not without some hedging.
“I have seen the lights blinking red in terms of what Mr. Trump has done and is doing,” he said.
Trump's tweet follows a lengthy interview in which Brennan harshly criticized Trump.
The president is compromising our national security to fulfill his revenge fantasies.