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CIA Director John Brennan Refuses To Tell Congress Who Authorized Senate Spying
The Daily Caller ^ | 09/15/14

Posted on 09/17/2014 6:56:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1

The CIA’s ongoing defiance of congressional authority continued during a closed-door meeting last week after Director John Brennan refused to tell lawmakers who authorized the illegal surveillance of Senate Intelligence Committee computers, which were used to compile a report on the agency’s interrogation practices.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aidandcomfort; bigbrother; brennan; cia; espionage; getbush; obaamlies; obamunism; senate; spying; transparency; treason
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1 posted on 09/17/2014 6:56:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

The day you can claim executive privilege on information like that is the day you live in a stone dictatorship.


2 posted on 09/17/2014 7:00:43 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Enlightened1

And he’s not under arrest why?

An arrogant police state agency out of control, gutting the democracy that legitimized them.


3 posted on 09/17/2014 7:02:25 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Enlightened1

Not as bad as the title hints. What actually happened was a deferral to the Inspector General. In essence, since there is an ongoing investigation, he referred the question to the people conducting the investigation.


4 posted on 09/17/2014 7:05:09 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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This refusal is good reason for John Brennan to step down. Congress should act now to take him out of office.


5 posted on 09/17/2014 7:05:49 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: circlecity
The day you can claim executive privilege on information like that is the day you live in a stone dictatorship.

Yes. If there was anything left of the Founders' republic Brennan would have been cleaning out his desk the same day he made this assertion.

6 posted on 09/17/2014 7:07:08 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Regulator
And he’s not under arrest why?

Because he's a member of the "Club"

7 posted on 09/17/2014 7:08:16 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Enlightened1

Throw this guy in Gitmo and throw away the key. He is the chief terrorist in Obama’s regime. And I don’t say that lightly.


8 posted on 09/17/2014 7:10:14 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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This guy is head of our CIA?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VQbAhqHoAo

Some have thought he is a muslim convert. How does Obama find all the muzzie lovers?


9 posted on 09/17/2014 7:11:21 AM PDT by boycott
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Somewhere Richard Nixon is LOL!...............


10 posted on 09/17/2014 7:11:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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Sen. Feinstein probably has an idea who ordered the spying. It had to come from one of two places, Holder or Obama.

Let’s see if Evan Bayh is as good a man as his father was. Putting a former democrat in charge of investigating the CIA in a democrat administration is suspect in itself.

I’m sure it will all boil down to nothing to see here, plebes, move on while the corruption in the US grows exponentially.


11 posted on 09/17/2014 7:12:24 AM PDT by OpusatFR (I did make that. No one else did the work.)
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authorized smauthorized, they just did it on their own I bet


12 posted on 09/17/2014 7:13:36 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: butterdezillion

Yup.

I haven’t forgotten that it was his company that breached passport files of candidates back when Obama, Clinton, and McCain were running for president. The media was outraged till Obama named Brennan to be an advisor a few weeks later.


13 posted on 09/17/2014 7:13:44 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Enlightened1

“We don’t need no stinking Congress.”


14 posted on 09/17/2014 7:14:23 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: circlecity

Amen!


15 posted on 09/17/2014 7:14:47 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Regulator

I am wondering the same thing? Why are they refusing to do their jobs? Does congress like being bullied around by the Executive Branch?


16 posted on 09/17/2014 7:15:49 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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TRANSPARENCY #SMIDGEN

It's been like this ever since Queen Hillary got away with possessing 900 FBI files.

17 posted on 09/17/2014 7:17:10 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: jonrick46

Agree... If I’m not mistaken he has already lied under oath regarding data-mining.


18 posted on 09/17/2014 7:17:24 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
You know, at this point the Obama administration is so brazen that I expect the next hearing to have this dialogue:

Sen. Mark Udall: "Mr. Brennan, have you been spying on the Senate?"

Brennan: "I'm not sure. (whips out a cell phone) Hey, Mike. Go release Udall's porn-site visit records to the New York Times. Oh, and let's make sure his dog is poisoned."

Sen. Mark Udall: "WHAT???!?"

Brennan: "Keep it up, pal, your daughter will be 'tragically raped'. Just sayin'. Oh, and by the way, screw you."

19 posted on 09/17/2014 7:17:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Absolutely correct!


20 posted on 09/17/2014 7:17:57 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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