that is certainly plausible
Brennan could have endorsed her to try and trick Trump not to choose her cause he was worried about what she knew.
I was wary of Haspel at first for some of these reasons
However she was picked by Pompeo (TRUST KANSAS). It was said they (Pompeo + Haspel) are best friends. And, then, she said something along the way that suggested to me that she is a believer i.e. Christian.
I remember when people first started playing with the idea of a “mirror” to “Q” posts and the clock, etc., some were adamant that the post about shutting down the agency did in fact occur; and before Pompeo left the agency to become SoS there was an Executive Order (I posted + discussed here) that placed the company under direction of SoS & SecDEF - I thought that was curious because, at the time, T-Rex was still SoS - then (very quickly thereafter) he was not.