CIA Director John Brennan
John Brennan: American Hero or Communist Traitor?
J.R. NyquistAugust 29, 2018 Updated: August 30, 2018
John Brennan, who was the director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017, now works as a media pundit, and has accused President Donald Trump of treasonous behavior. Trump responded by revoking Brennan’s security clearance.
This has touched off a hue and cry: It’s a violation of free speech, some say, while others point to brazen intimidation.
On Aug. 19, Brennan appeared on Meet the Press, where he affirmed the charges against the president by saying, “I called his behavior treasonous, which is to … aid and abet the enemy. And I stand very much by that claim.”
It is noteworthy that Brennan, who also served as a top counterterrorism adviser to former President Barack Obama, offered no proof of the charge.
Accusations of treason against presidents have occurred throughout U.S. history. Thomas Jefferson once accused George Washington of colluding with “harlot England.” Ironically, Jefferson, while serving as secretary of state, colluded with revolutionary France.
What makes the current controversy so confusing, and difficult to parse, is the way in which the American left has turned itself upside-down over the question of Russia.
The left has mocked the idea of a Russian threat since 1917; but now, the left talks incessantly of Russia.
Whereas Obama criticized Mitt Romney’s forwarning about Russia in 2012, we are now asked to believe that Obama’s party has always been the party of vigilance.
Readers may remember that Obama was caught on camera telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in 2012: “This is my last election.
After my election, I’ll have more flexibility.” Medvedev warmly responded: “Yes, yes, I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir [Putin].”
Prior to that, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had ushered in her Russian “reset,” replete with technology transfers to Russia, marked also by the Uranium One deal (coinciding with various donations to the Clinton Foundation and a $500,000 speaking fee paid by Russia to former President Bill Clinton).
In all this, the deception is palpable.
The American left has always “aided and abetted” the Soviet Union and the Russian successor state.
For those who carry the banner of the left, and the banner of the Democratic Party, to now accuse a Republican president of collusion with Russia, is an astonishing piece of hypocrisy. ...”
Russia’s old friends are pretending to be stalwart Cold Warriors.
It is a deception, outrageous as it is disorienting to the public.
During the election campaign of 2016, Clinton opposed any strengthening of the U.S. strategic posture vis-à-vis Russia.
“The last thing we need,” she told one audience, “are sophisticated cruise missiles that are nuclear armed.”
A true opponent of Russia would have championed a stronger U.S. nuclear deterrent.
Clinton didn’t.
As a nuclear war expert with long experience in government told me, our nuclear arsenal is so badly deteriorated after eight years of Obama, we won’t see a new replacement warhead until after Trump completes his second term in office.
That is the extent to which Obama’s stewardship effectively sabotaged our strategic deterrent.
And Hillary Clinton would have extended that sabotage.
Brennan, as Obama’s CIA director, was an integral member of the Obama/Clinton clique.
It is a clique whose origins, however shrouded, can be traced to the Marxist left; that is, to Obama’s communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, and to Hillary Clinton’s radical mentor, Saul Alinsky.
Brennan emerged from the same milieu, only his career path was routed through the CIA.
It would be a mistake to think the CIA is hostile to leftists, or to persons of Marxist background.
Decade after decade, the CIA has recruited leftists.
The CIA isn’t a right-wing organization.
It is akin to other institutions staffed from American universities.
And make no mistake, universities in the United States are dominated by the left.
It should not surprise us, therefore, that former CIA director Brennan made a shocking admission while attending a panel discussion at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual conference in September 2016.
The panel discussion was on “recruiting diverse candidates” for agencies like the CIA.
Brennan was eager to clear up a prevailing misunderstanding—a fear, indee—that U.S. intelligence agencies would reject leftist or radical applicants.
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