Brennan was a former career CIA employee.
I suppose his conversion over the past decade to overt political shill obscured to me his past credentials that included being station chief in Riyadh during the Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 of our men (fail) and heading up the “Terrorist Threat Integration Center” from 2003 to 2004, an office that sifted through and compiled information for President Bush's daily top secret intelligence briefings and employed the services of analysts from a dozen U.S. agencies and entities”
This was the intelligence President Bush relied on to invade Iraq looking for Saddam's WMD (fail)
Brenna was exposed in my mind in 2008, during the campaign, when his private spook contractor firm (Spooks R Us) rifled through the passport section of the State Department sanitizing passport records that might have revealed details about the past and past activities of Senator Barry Soetero aka Barack Obama, his sainted mother Stanley Dunham, the rest of his “family and friends”. and Bill and Hillary Clinton = among others - we will never know. The main informant on that case, Major Quarles, was executed on the streets of DC, case never solved
such as they were