DCI doesn’t report to SecSt. The only people who would have been able to do this are Clapper, Brennan, or Donilon. My guess is Brennan. He’s an arabphile of very long standing, back to his undergrad days at Rose Hill. And I would expect once he received Petraeus’ assessment that he cooperated with Jarret to insulate Obama from the very real failure of the Libyan efforts.Given the haloed one’s detachment from governance and his total interest in only campaigning, I doubt Obama even questioned the assessment put before him. It was certainly Jarrett who sent Rice out that Sunday. Anyone else would have had to lie on five successive shows and an anchor like Wallace would have instinctively known he was being lied to. Rice knew only what she was told and had no reason to believe her friend Jarrett was using her. Her crime was taking these talking points and not asking questions of Jarrett and Brennan.
“Clapper, Brennan, or Donilon”
I chose D. All of the above.
Brennan keeps surfacing in these things, but I think he was simply hewing to the line that the WH wanted...which was the one he would have taken anyway, because over his many decades in US service he has always been extremely the arabophile. To me, he's like a sort of a Kim Philby style intellectual redux.
But he couldn't have done this without either Clinton or Obama, both of whom were defending the other side (our enemies). In the case of Clinton, it was out of expedience and personal gain, but in the case of Obama, it's entirely ideological. That't the only thing at which Obama is not incompetent.