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CIA Director Once Voted for Communist Presidential Candidate
Washington Free Beacon ^ | September 21, 2016 | Natalie Johnson

Posted on 09/22/2016 6:33:33 AM PDT by VitacoreVision

CIA Director John Brennan voted for the Communist Party candidate in the 1976 presidential election.

Brennan told a congressional panel last week that he “froze” while taking a CIA polygraph test four years later when the questioner asked him if he had ever worked with or for a group that was “dedicated to overthrowing the U.S.,” CNN reported.

“This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate,” Brennan said at a panel discussion regarding diversity in the intelligence community during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual conference.

Someone had asked whether experience in political activism could harm someone who later attempts to obtain a security clearance. Brennan said the CIA is committed to upholding the values of the Constitution.

“We’ve all had indiscretions in our past,” he said. “I would not be up here if that was disqualifying.”

Brennan said he decided to acknowledge his vote for Communist Gus Hall, the Communist Party USA’s four-time presidential candidate, when undergoing the lie detector test.

“I said I was neither Democratic or Republican, but it was my way, as I was going to college, of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change. I said I’m not a member of the Communist Party, so the polygrapher looked at me and said, ‘OK,’” Brennan said.

“So if back in 1980, John Brennan was allowed to say, ‘I voted for the Communist Party with Gus Hall’ … and still got through, rest assured that your rights and your expressions and your freedom of speech as Americans is something that’s not going to be disqualifying of you as you pursue a career in government,” he continued.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brennancommunism; ciadirector; communist; johnbrennan
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1 posted on 09/22/2016 6:33:33 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

He voted for one, and now he works for one....


2 posted on 09/22/2016 6:35:50 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: VitacoreVision

Eugene McCarthy ran as an independent that year. THere was also the Libertarians and the Citizens Party. Lyndon Larouche might have had a line as well. But no! He had to go full, formal commie.


3 posted on 09/22/2016 6:37:50 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: VitacoreVision

And he is a muslim.
Only a muslim would refer to Jerusalem as Al Quds


4 posted on 09/22/2016 6:37:53 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Psalm 73
He voted for one, and now he works for one...

They've basically taken over, as they say, without firing a shot, as in violent overthrow.

5 posted on 09/22/2016 6:42:02 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: Psalm 73

Always been one-


6 posted on 09/22/2016 6:42:45 AM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: VitacoreVision

Didn’t think that one would come back and bite you, did you commie?


7 posted on 09/22/2016 6:43:31 AM PDT by uncitizen (JFK: The first victim of the New World Order)
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To: VitacoreVision

Once a Communist, now a Muslim, and now Obama’s CIA Director….obviously, this government is being run by enemies of the USA. And where were the tongue-tied, ball-less Republicans when this was happening??? Can you imagine who Hillary will appoint to her cabinet? Huma will be Sec. of State and Huma’s mother, supporters of will be Sec. of Defense, both supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. Pray without ceasing that God would intervene, or we perish.


8 posted on 09/22/2016 6:43:57 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: orchestra

Do we really need the CIA? They have made more than their share of mistakes. Sometimes I wonder.


9 posted on 09/22/2016 6:44:44 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Psalm 73
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"This president can be a transformative leader (he has that potential in my view), but only if he embraces and fights for a transformative agenda."--Sam Webb, Chairman Communist Party USA

Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
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A Landslide Mandate For Change

A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

(snip)

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
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July 1, 2009...

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Change is Here, Change is Coming
--Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA

http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek
"-- BARACK OBAMA
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

10 posted on 09/22/2016 6:46:55 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: VitacoreVision

When Trump wins, he has lots of house cleaning to do. Virtually every government agency needs to be swept clean and the Dept of Education shut completely down.


11 posted on 09/22/2016 6:47:00 AM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: VitacoreVision

God help us! The communists have fully infiltrated our government and are vigorously attempting to dismantle our military. President Trump needs to do a clean sweep of these leftists from all levels of government.


12 posted on 09/22/2016 6:47:14 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Psalm 73
Jan 29, 2010:

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Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism's crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100711090651/http://article.nationalreview.com/365528/forgetting-the-evils-of-communism/jonah-goldberg


13 posted on 09/22/2016 6:47:54 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Seems like it would be better to be above board with everything. Help our friends and work to defeat our enemies.
I am naive yes?


14 posted on 09/22/2016 6:48:01 AM PDT by refermech
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To: VitacoreVision

Who vetted this idiot?


15 posted on 09/22/2016 6:48:12 AM PDT by tioga ( Not my monkey, not my circus.)
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To: VitacoreVision
Here's the man Brennan voted for- good old Gus Hall:


16 posted on 09/22/2016 6:50:51 AM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: VitacoreVision

“When Brennan, then Obama’s deputy national security adviser, was sworn in to head the CIA, “the Jesuit-educated former CIA officer opted to take the oath on a copy of the U.S. Constitution, not on the bible as every past CIA director, Christian and Jewish, had done.”

Brennan is the highest-ranking U.S. official to have ever visited the Islamic holy city of Mecca, a privilege reserved only for pious Muslims and special guests of the Saudi King, who is the “Guardian of the Two Shrines of Mecca and Medina.”

At the National Security Council and at the CIA, Brennan has forbidden the use of the term “jihadist” to describe Islamist terrorists, preferring instead the word “extremists.””

From http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/08/27/cia-director-john-brennan-is-a-muslim-convert/


17 posted on 09/22/2016 6:51:21 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: Psalm 73

The fifth column has been subverting this country since the czars were overthrown by Marxist.


18 posted on 09/22/2016 6:51:30 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: VitacoreVision

OMG!!! INFILTRATION COMPLETE!! Our government is TOTALLY CORRUPT!!


19 posted on 09/22/2016 6:51:42 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Nowadays the question, “Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the US?,” would have to include supporting the Demonicrat Party.


20 posted on 09/22/2016 6:53:16 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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