Posted on 07/26/2025 10:07:45 AM PDT by RandFan
In 1980, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin saw an ad for the Central Intelligence Agency on a bus. John Brennan decided to apply, thinking that such a job would satisfy his “wanderlust.”
This month, the “wanderlust” of John Brennan came to an end, as the former CIA director stands accused of false testimony regarding the Russian collusion investigation.
Ironically, Brennan was first selected for his honesty — at least in part. During his entry polygraph, Brennan admitted that he had voted for the communist party candidate for president in 1976. He was impressed that the agency took him anyway.
That honest young man seems like a faint and tragic echo of the man today. When Obama picked Brennan to be the CIA director, he had become the ultimate Democratic insider and loyalist. And it would be choosing loyalty over honesty that would prove Brennan’s undoing.
Newly declassified information contradicts Brennan’s testimony before Congress on the origins of the now-debunked Russian collusion conspiracy theory. There is a particular focus on the intelligence community assessment commissioned by President Barack Obama in December 2016, which suggested that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump.
Obama ordered the assessment after a prior assessment found no evidence of collusion or influence on the election in Trump’s favor. But Obama’s White House effectively quashed that finding from seasoned CIA analysts. To create a new version, Brennan handpicked new analysts, who effectively flipped the earlier finding on its head without any credible basis in the record.
The new assessment relied, to a significant degree, on the Steele dossier, a widely discredited report paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that contained unfounded allegations about Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Since the end of the Vietnam War security exclusions for clearances for sensitive government and industry positions has been a moving target. Back then I was told your political views as a wet behind the ears college student were viewed as irrelevant. You were simply too immature. (When told that I silently asked myself then “ why do we let them vote?”.) They let you skate on drug use back then for the same reason. As time and politics went on that got changed to the last 5 years. Time and politics marched on the last time I was re-evaluated it was within the last year. I retired from doing sensitive contract work for DOD etc. six years ago, a friend who was a corporate (had been a USG security officer) official said to me jokingly (maybe not!) no drug use just prior to turning in your urine sample. Why the continued change? Societal changes regarding drug use*. And maybe more importantly for USG positions too many whites with security clearances.
* From a high school classmate who is a business man and now mayor of the small WV town i grew up in said the following. “The single thing holding back employment growth in the city and the surrounding county was finding employees who could pass a drug and alcohol test.” I and others on this forum have heard that about elsewhere.
There are 2 major hurdles
1. Looking for statements made and actions taken that can reset the 5 year SOL for the perjury, coverup, and conspiracy charges.
2.Trying the case in a favorable jurisdiction, IOW not DC.
It does matter that we get indictments.
1. Future deterrence for these crimes
2. The leftist media will be silent unless we see indictments. Otherwise 50% of the country will not ever know.
Otherwise we will could have another famous historical fraud that goes unpunished. Donations of Constantine, Elders of Zion, Mormon tablets.
bttt
On July 26, 1947 (78 years ago today), President Truman signed the National Security Act which created the CIA and National Security Council (NSC) and established the Department of the Air Force. The Department of the Air Force, Navy Department, and War Department were unified under the new Department of Defense.
Why not fellow travelers. They want to be KGB American Style.
True. Thanks — almost forgot about that.
Only because of the lie detector
Check
Admiral Rogers is a hero.
John Brennon voted for a communist candidate instead of Jimmy Carter.
So Jimmy Carter was no leftist enough for him.
Somehow I’m not surprised.
wow
steele got ripped off
good
ford was a deep state player
he was on warren commission
deep state knew he would sign off on anything
voila
president ford
1976 ...there were plenty of leftwing loons circa 1976...
... the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and the remnants of the Charles Manson cult, both of which would attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford in September 1975.
The same year, Avakian’s RU faction rechristened itself as the RCP. -— fedora https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3516484/posts
Brennan was a drinking pal of some other CIA troglodyte and that helped him move up the ladder.
If Brennan goes to prison (we wish) would the prison food and the continuous stress of prison life cause his looks to become worse?
either acceptable...Carter, Ford
I voted LP, which I saw then and see now as far more acceptable.
bkmk
He hasn’t fallen yet… I’m still waiting to see it.
That little piece of crap should be the first one arrested and prosecuted and jailed or preferably hanged.
I couldn’t vote in that election... I was only 17. I was PISSED that I couldn’t vote for Reagan in the R primary.
In 1980, I of course did vote for RR. On election night, I distinctly recall sitting in my car, listening to Carter’s concessions speech, and thinking.... “This is a decent man”. He had some bad luck with global events while President. But he never would have BEEN President if not for Watergate. His policies mostly sucked. His “malaise speech” was a bad joke. But I didn’t HATE him the way I did Obama.
As 60’s Child pointed out, the passage of time has not been kind to Jimmah. He’s looked more petty and vindictive over the years. I guess I was naive in 1980.
For the record... I voted LP (Dr. Ron Paul) in 1984. But ONLY because... 1) I KNEW Reagan would win a landslide, and 2) I knew the Paul family personally, and worked on Ron’s campaign.
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