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John Brennan: I will speak out until integrity returns to the White House
Washington Compost ^ | June 1, 2018 | John Brennan

Posted on 06/01/2018 6:55:51 AM PDT by EdnaMode

My first visit to the Oval Office came in October 1990, when I was a 35-year-old CIA officer.

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Over the next quarter-century, I returned to the Oval Office several hundred times during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The jitters that accompanied my first Oval Office visit dissipated over time, but the respect, awe and admiration I held for the office of the presidency and the incumbents never waned. The presidents I directly served were not perfect, and I didn’t agree with all of their policy choices. But I never doubted that each treated their solemn responsibility to lead our nation with anything less than the seriousness, intellectual rigor and principles that it deserved. Many times, I heard them dismiss the political concerns of their advisers, saying, “I don’t care about my politics, it’s the right thing to do.”

The esteem with which I held the presidency was dealt a serious blow when Donald Trump took office. Almost immediately, I began to see a startling aberration from the remarkable, though human, presidents I had served. Mr. Trump’s lifelong preoccupation with aggrandizing himself seemed to intensify in office, and he quickly leveraged his 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. address and his Twitter handle to burnish his brand and misrepresent reality.

Presidents throughout the years have differed in their approaches to policy, based on political platforms, ideologies and individual beliefs. Mr. Trump, however, has shown highly abnormal behavior by lying routinely to the American people without compunction, intentionally fueling divisions in our country and actively working to degrade the imperfect but critical institutions that serve us.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brennan; cultureofcorruption; johnbrennan; pantload; presidenttrump; trump
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Yeah, decorum is the reason why Brennan keeps going after Trump.....
1 posted on 06/01/2018 6:55:51 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Liars need to keep talking.

Its akin to bailing out a sinking rowboat.


2 posted on 06/01/2018 6:58:15 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: EdnaMode
by lying routinely to the American people without compunction, intentionally fueling divisions in our country and actively working to degrade the imperfect but critical institutions that serve us.

When I read the above, I couldn't help but think of Obama. Literally, the Left accuses the Right of the thing they're guilty of...

3 posted on 06/01/2018 6:58:19 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: EdnaMode

Or at least until you swing.


4 posted on 06/01/2018 6:59:34 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: EdnaMode

Brennan. Integrity. Naw, those words don’t work in the same sentence.


5 posted on 06/01/2018 6:59:37 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: EdnaMode

This communist muslim would only have been appointed CIA Director by an ineligible communist muslim usurper.


6 posted on 06/01/2018 6:59:50 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EdnaMode

He can keep flapping his yap from Gitmo, where he’s going.


7 posted on 06/01/2018 6:59:50 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: EdnaMode

Let me get this straight. First he has his people break in and ‘sanitize’ Obama’s birth records and passport records. The employee that tries to out him ends up dead in a parking lot. Then he lies about just about everything, and supports Muslim terrorists and ISIS. Finally, he spies on a US political election and uses all the powers of the CIA and other security apparatus against the people of the United States..........

AND TRUMP IS THE PROBLEM.

ROFLOL....you can’t even make this stuff up.


8 posted on 06/01/2018 6:59:54 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: EdnaMode

John Brennan, first Muslim Head of the CIA, talking about INTEGRITY??? Leftist Liars gone LIE! It’s all they have.........


9 posted on 06/01/2018 7:00:12 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: EdnaMode

Oh sure. Because the firs thing Americans think of when they hear the word “integrity” is Democrat presidents.


10 posted on 06/01/2018 7:00:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: From The Deer Stand

Not even the same paragraph.


11 posted on 06/01/2018 7:00:35 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: EdnaMode
"Over the next quarter-century, I returned to the Oval Office several hundred times during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The jitters that accompanied my first Oval Office visit dissipated over time, but the respect, awe and admiration I held for the office of the presidency and the incumbents never waned."

Are "jitters" anything like "tingles"? Misguided jerk.

12 posted on 06/01/2018 7:00:44 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: EdnaMode

You can hear Brennan’s fear of Sessions’ DOJ in every word he penned.

SARCASM.


13 posted on 06/01/2018 7:00:51 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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/S
14 posted on 06/01/2018 7:00:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode

John Brennan would not know integrity if it walked up and gave him a fetch upside the head. He has built his entire back story around a lie, and he cannot let it go.

Alternate realities allow for alternate sets of facts, but the alternate reality is not the one the rest of us are living in.


15 posted on 06/01/2018 7:00:54 AM PDT by alloysteel (Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.)
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To: EdnaMode

So says the Islamist, Marxist fascist.


16 posted on 06/01/2018 7:01:19 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Weird how his moose limb influence is rarely mentioned.


17 posted on 06/01/2018 7:02:13 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: EdnaMode

What a load of crap! These people have sold this nation out to a bunch of globalist overlords, and they have the gall to talk about INTEGRITY!


18 posted on 06/01/2018 7:03:20 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: EdnaMode

Sooo glad this guy no longer has power.


19 posted on 06/01/2018 7:03:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: EdnaMode

Building a gallows for you would be a good first step towards that.


20 posted on 06/01/2018 7:03:37 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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