Just maybe the government of the United States of America has too many secrets. Those that hold the secrets and keep those secrets secret are now on the defensive for their conduct during and after the 2016 national election. Some say these ‘intelligence’ keepers broke laws to keep President Donald Trump out of the White House.

“The people who are worried about this are worried about being exposed for taking the law in their own hands,” said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in a Sunday interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News. “It doesn’t surprise me that the people we are looking at, they don’t want transparency.”

Graham — during the Sunday interview — did not name names but it’s no secret who is in the hot seat.

Take a look at these familiar names – former ex-directors of the Central Intelligence Agency Gen. Michael Hayden and John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper along with former FBI Director James Comey. After leaving office Hayden, Brennan and Clapper became paid CNN commentators and ever since President Trump took office all three kept up their anti-Trump rhetoric. Hayden has dropped from public life due to a stroke he suffered last November, but Brennan and Clapper appear regularly on CNN and continue on with their contempt for this president.

Comey, Brennan and Clapper have given strong criticism of President Trump’s decision to give U.S. Attorney General William Barr “full and complete authority” to examine documents related to the beginnings of the FBI’s Russia/Trump Campaign collusion investigation that was taken over by FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller who determined that no campaign collusion took place between Team Trump and Russian entities.

Barr is said to be working closely with the current directors of the CIA, the National Intelligence Agency and the FBI to review all the evidentiary documents to determine what information about the previous conduct of the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI can be released. These former government officials are indeed running scared that their misdeeds will be uncovered possibility leading to indictments and trials.

“We’re not compromising national security here,” said Graham. “We’re trying to create a system to make sure this never happens again by shedding light on what happened.”

Of course this entire matter has become politicized to the point of national exhaustion. Republicans have long argued the Trump-Russia probe was politically motivated and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was illegally abused while the Democrats defend the actions taken by the FBI and the DOJ during campaign 2016 and afterwards.

Never short on criticism Brennan says he thinks lives could be put in danger with the release of this specific classified information that led to actual spying on members of Trump’s campaign staff.

“I see it as a very, very serious and outrageous move on the part of Mr. Trump, once again, trampling on the statutory authorities of the Director of National Intelligence and the heads of the independent intelligence agencies,” Brennan said on MSNBC with Chris Hayes. “And it’s unclear to me what Mr. Barr is actually doing. Is he investigating a crime? Well what’s the predication of that crime? Or is he just going to be looking or information that Mr. Trump can just give to his defenders on the right and cherry-pick information that could be taken out of context.

Brennan went on to say that releasing the information would expose “sources and methods” as well as those of foreign countries.

President Trump has repeatedly said “We’re exposing everything.”

Let’s not forget that the late U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Brennan passed along that fake dossier that was used to get FISA warrants approved for use by the FBI to spy on Trump’s aides.

Brennan, Clapper and Comey are the predication for the crime.

About the Author Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.