Posted on 01/15/2017 1:58:25 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
The departing CIA director John Brennan has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump, warning the President-elect does not fully understand the threat posed to the US by Russia.
As Reuters reports, Brennan's comments, during an interview on "Fox News Sunday," exposed the simmering tensions between the president-elect and the intelligence community he has criticized and is on the verge of commanding.
Brennan also questioned the message it sends to the world if the president-elect broadcasts he does not have confidence in the United States' own intelligence agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
That’s the Saudi money talking.
He was out there by his co-religionist Barrak Hussein Obama.
Hopefully Trump will put nails in the coffin of Political Correctness, which is largely why that appointment wasn’t questioned.
‘put there ‘
Isn’t it Durden?
I figured if they had anything on Trump they would have used it by now. A rogue CIA is a dangerous thing. Pompeo has to really clean house. Maybe even dig up some the bodies and put them on display. Perhaps Brennan fears a vengeful Trump will expose the gaping flaws in his management of the CIA and how he destroyed it. They have a lot to lose.
Brennan is all for the latest in diversity in the CIA, but he has done a terrible job with America and the world.
Why allow Russia to get 20% of our uranium industry if they are such monsters? Why the attack on Romney in 2012 when he called out Russia? Why is the CIA so goddamned politicized that it is useless? Why did 50 intelligence analysts say that the intelligence leadership (oxymoron) was altering their work so it would agree with Obama’s worldview, i.e. ISIS is not dangerous. Why go on TV and tell the world a lie about a video killing four Americans in Benghazi when it was absolutely false? Why did Obama go on a fundraiser when our ambassador was being murdered?
Why allow Iran the ability to get nukes and spread terrorism with the plane loads of ransom money that we gave them?
We have the kindergarten running the nuclear reactor, and they have the stone to lecture Trump.
Orlando, San Bernardino, Ft. Hood, Ft. Lauderdale - where is the vaunted protection? Brennan cannot even say the words “Islamic terrorism”.
He was the one that fired all the American anti-jihad analysts like Robert Spencer, because the Muslim Brotherhood was insulted. Brennan washed the words “jihad” and “Muslim terror”, etc. out of the manuals because of his insane political correction. The same was done to the FBI.
He has left America in a far more dangerous position.
This time the CIA is a divided agency. Not same game.
Total remake of the entire Intelligence community is in order. “Eliminate” the problems by closing the existing agencies.
Wasnt it Reid on his way out say intel community might payback Trump?
“Given the level of Muslim Brotherhood penetration”
Absolutely correct target.
Clearances can be revised. End of discussion.
Am I missing something, or did this article just (basically) say that since kennedy ended up dead after bucking the CIA, Trump better be careful lest he end up dead...
Brennan and every other dirtbag involved in creating that fake dossier on our new President should be in prison.
I saw part of that interview with the CIA head-muzzie.
I heard him say “Mr. Trump and Vice-President Elect Mike Pence.” NOT “President-Elect Trump.” “Mr. Trump...”
“He is a pimple on the rectum of the nation right now.”
No he’s not! He’s a suppurating Pilonidal Cyst!
“Trump is under no mistaken perception regarding Russia. He is simply trying to start out on the right foot, .......so that relations can heal and we can cooperate against terrorism.”
.....EXACTLY what the globalist elites who Brennan represents DO NOT WANT....
Well, if he doesn't fully understand, we can count on Pence, Sessions, and Co to fill him in.
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Also from the Oct 5, 2016 first VP debate...
QUIJANO (Moderator): I want to turn now to Syria. Two hundred fifty thousand people, 100,000 of them children, are under siege in Aleppo, Syria. Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, and incendiary weapons are being dropped on them by Russian and Syrian militaries. Does the U.S. have a responsibility to protect civilians and prevent mass casualties on this scale, Governor Pence?
PENCE: The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo. Hillary Clinton’s top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset, the Russians reset. After the Russian reset, the Russians invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea.
And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America — the greatest nation on Earth — just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins — look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.
It begins by rebuilding our military. And the Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We’ve got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.
But about Aleppo and about Syria, I truly do believe that what America ought to do right now is immediately establish safe zones, so that families and vulnerable families with children can move out of those areas, work with our Arab partners, real time, right now, to make that happen.
And secondly, I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.
There’s a broad range of other things that we ought to do, as well. We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.
QUIJANO: Governor, your two minutes are up.
PENCE: We’ve just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they’re dealing with a strong American president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/vice-president-transcript.html
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And...
PENCE: What we’re dealing with is the — you know, there’s an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.
And the truth of the matter is, the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East.
And all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we’re not having talks anymore.
To answer your question, we just need American strength. We need to — we need to marshal the resources of our allies in the region, and in the immediate, we need to act and act now to get people out of harm’s way.
You better book a flight to Riyadh, Johno. Not everyone under your authority is a traitor like you.
I hope to God that Trump and all of his cabinet are on Free Republic reading these comments so that if they have any doubt where we all stand it will be erased and they will also know (if they don’t already) the well-educated guesses here about Brennan being a Muslim and being someone who is not very pro-american-if at all!
March 26, 2015
What do you expect next from Russia?
Sessions: Well, there's a danger that they may continue this overreach. They just solidified power in Georgia, in South Ossetia. That was I think in the last week. Pressure is still on Ukraine. We don't know whether the Minsk Agreement will hold, I don't think it's holding very well now.
We have the Estonians, the Lithuanians, the Romanians, they're very worried. This is reality, I wish it weren't, but I'm afraid it is. It needs to be clear that Russia knows that there will be a high price to pay if this behavior continues.
If Minsk breaks down, at what point does the president have to act and supply Ukraine with lethal weaponry? What is the breaking point? We know from what Victoria Nuland said that the administration hasn't decided yet.
Sessions: From what I understand from this conference, I think it's clear that Germany has said publicly that they will support harsher sanctions and more military support if the Minsk Agreement fails. And that will be key.
Merkel has worked very very hard to establish a relationship with Putin and Russia. It's been a good-faith effort. If it fails, I would hope that Europe and the United States would have to unify and push back more firmly against Russian overreach. ..."
or,
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"In a Montgomery speech in March 2014...he [Sen Jeff Sessions] called for international scorn toward Russia for its aggressive actions in Ukraine and, before then, Georgia.
"I believe a systematic effort should be undertaken so that Russia feels pain for this," Sessions said then. "Because if you don't act now to make some sanctions against Russia then why will they believe in the future that we're going to impose sanctions or do anything aggressive if they move forward to take all of Ukraine, all of Georgia?""
Sessions, not that long ago, was calling for more sanctions against an expansionist Russia that was rattling U.S. allies in Europe. And he regularly blamed the Obama administration for what he argued was an overly optimistic and weak foreign policy, including a decision to scale back planned missile defense sites in the Czech Republic and Poland.
“There’s no good solution now. The bottle of milk has shattered on the floor and you can’t put it back together,” the Alabama senator said about relations with Russia in the aftermath of the annexation of Crimea.
Sessions has also pointed to Russia’s record as justification for a robust missile defense system, which has deep roots in north Alabama.
“Russia’s recent actions in Georgia remind us that country, which we once hoped was on a path to greater integration into the global world community, might again be seeking to restore old Soviet ideas of dominance throughout their neighbors and in Eastern Europe, all of which should serve as a motivation to move ahead with the necessary capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies from missile attack, in particular,” Sessions said on the Senate floor in 2008.
Two years later, Sessions voted against the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, in part because he thought Obama conceded too much ground to the Russians.
“Just signing an agreement on a piece of paper does not create security,” Sessions said. “A consistent, principled, just approach to our legitimate national defense, advocated clearly and forthrightly without misunderstanding, is the best way to have security in this dangerous world.”
or,
Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to "show his manhood."
The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.
"We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," Trump said. ..."
http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098
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Here’s the must-see interview w/ Matt Lauer on YouTube...
Donald Trump (2014): ‘Vladimir Putin Has Eaten Obama’s Lunch’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzURUENf1ns
Not to mention Trump interfering with the renewed trends of America first, nationalism, independence and patriotism here at home.
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