CIA Director John Brennan takes aim at Donald Trump for his criticism of the intelligence community

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-cia-director-john-brennan-takes-aim-at-1484509316-htmlstory.html ^ | 2017-01-15 | Cathleen Decker

[DoughtyOne]

Evidently.

IMO, he’ll be replaced. He should have ridden this out quietly.

[Sioux-san]

Too much to hope for ;[

[353FMG]

I know that Brennan is a muzzie, but what is the connection with his predecessor?

[garjog]

Now that Obama released all the Gitmo prisoners, maybe there is a nice cell for this traitor?

[dila813]

Mister Trump, Don’t you know they run this country?

[Secret Agent Man]

It isn’t criticism of the “Intelligence Community” just the CIA who is operating under orders from Bammy. Muslim ordering muslim to do this. The report they issued is a joke. They have NOTHING to back it on. NOTHING. They know it but are doing it anyway.

This is a soft coup attempt by Obama and the DNC. Obama aint doing it for Hillary. He feels like HE has lost. Wait til his Exec Orders all go bye bye.

[nathanbedford]

In tone and substance the director of the CIA broke protocol and became partisan as he presumed to lecture the President-elect of the United States about his duties and how to "understand" the world. The man verged on rudeness and certainly violated the norm requiring an intelligence agent to hold himself above partisan politics.

Brennan has been one of the worst intelligence chiefs in my memory, but he is only one of a gang of partisan hacks that Obama has put in power such as two Attorneys General who likewise have violated the norms of their office.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Brennan and everyone below him who share his ideology gone, “Zapped”.

[DakotaGator]

CIA Director John Brennan on Sunday sharply criticized the incoming president for equating spy agencies to Nazi Germany and suggested that he needed to focus more seriously on the security issues facing the nation.

Unbelievable! The DCI works for the President. And he doesn't make policy. For Director Brennan to utter such drivel should be an automatic "You're Fired".

[DoughtyOne]

Couldn’t agree with you more on this.

The CIA Director serves at the will of the president.

If he disagrees, his option is to resign, not undermine the president.

He can also use back channels to get his message across to the president.

You don’t air this stuff in public, because the whole conversation is in full view of our potential adversaries, and any discussion can tip off positions.

You are so right, that this is simply unprofessional to the max.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Soon to be “former CIA Director”....

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

nathanbedford the only “norms” in our government now is corruption through and through!! PE Trump has his work cut out for him thank goodness the man is fearless!!!

[TigerClaws]

.@FoxNews "Outgoing CIA Chief, John Brennan, blasts Pres-Elect Trump on Russia threat. Does not fully understand." Oh really, couldn't do... Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 4h4 hours ago much worse - just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine and the build-up of Russian nukes. Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News? 12,256 replies 7,282 retweets 27,752 likes Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 5h5 hours ago

[353FMG]

Of course he will be replaced, unless Trump wants a muzzie in charge of the CIA.

If that is the case, then nothing has changed under Trump.

[Dr. Pritchett]

How much advice are we supposed to take from a guy getting fired for cause?? Buh-bye, douche.

[nathanbedford]

Clearly the President-elect had to take this issue on and had to take on the mandarins of the intelligence bureaucracy on or find himself a punching bag in office. He is not the man for a George Bush style rope-a-dope. His kind of pluck is necessary in some applications but perhaps not in other situations.

The issue has to be decided about who is going to run foreign affairs of the United States of America, the elected President of the United States or an unnamed, virtually unaccountable intelligence bureaucracy?

[Trumpnado2016]

Trump is wisely creating another “controversy” to get past this Rep. John Lewis bologna.

[DoughtyOne]

it would seem that way.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

What a miserable old woman.

[5th MEB]

Yes, Mr. Brennan; he is going to have a great responsibility making sure American security interests are protected and advanced.
STEP ONE IS TO FIRE YOU AND ALL OTHER OBUNGHOLE APPOINTEES.
That would include anyone YOU HIRED as well.