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Has The Head of the CIA Just Leaked Classified Information to the Press?
AgainstCronyCapitalism.org ^ | December 17, 2016 | Hunter Lewis

Posted on 12/17/2016 8:09:19 PM PST by Rockitz

It appears clear enough that he has not only leaked classified information. He has done so for partisan political purposes. The US is now one step closer to a Banana Republic.

ACC has just run a story about how the FBI now reportedly agrees with the CIA that Russia tried to influence our election. We quoted the Daily Caller which said:

“The CIA has not issued any public statements, and all assertions are based on anonymous leaks.”

This may be technically true, but is misleading. We now know pretty clearly who has been leaking from the CIA.

NPR reported yesterday that John Brennan, the head of the CIA, sent a written message to CIA staff members stating that the FBI now agreed with the CIA assertion of Russian interference in the election. NPR itself noted that Brennen knew perfectly well that a general message to employees would be leaked. In effect, he was asking the CIA staff to leak it. So here we have an instance of the head of the CIA leaking conclusions from a classified report although in a roundabout way.

It really was bad enough for the secretary of state and her staff to treat classified information as she did. Has no one in Washington learned anything from this? And what does it tell us that the leaker is the head of the CIA, where secrecy is supposed to be greatest?

When the CIA was founded after WW2, some commentators warned that having a super secret spy agency inside our government was not a good idea, that it might eventually try to influence or even subvert our democracy. Rumors of the CIA working with the Mafia and the like in the past were just rumors. But there now seems no doubt that the agency has leaked classified information knowing that it will be used for a highly partisan political purpose, to undermine the legitimacy of the Trump election.

I don’t know how others will react to this, but I find it more than troubling that the head of the CIA could in this way inject himself into domestic politics.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: cia; election; fbi; media; russia
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Thankfully we have a little more than a month of this Marxist Muslim buffoon left. Hopefully his murder of Michael Hastings will soon be revealed and he'll spend the rest of his life in jail.
1 posted on 12/17/2016 8:09:19 PM PST by Rockitz
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To: Rockitz

I think on Monday or Tuesday, we’ll get a public statement from Comey or Clapper, where they contradict what Brennan said.


2 posted on 12/17/2016 8:15:29 PM PST by Calvin Cooledge
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To: Rockitz

People do not “get” it.

Obama has bee working for the Saudi Royal family for quite a while. They paid for his legal education if he agreed to be a “mole” for them in our government.

James Brennan, too, has been an agent for the Saudi Royals since serving there in Arabia years ago.

We must alter our diplomatic relationship with Saudi Arabia. They are not our friends.


3 posted on 12/17/2016 8:16:53 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: Rockitz

Never is all my years did I think I’d ever see the day when the CIA became just another tentacle of the DNC. Sad.


4 posted on 12/17/2016 8:17:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Rockitz

I think on Monday or Tuesday, we’ll get a public statement from Comey or Clapper, where they contradict what Brennan said.


5 posted on 12/17/2016 8:18:23 PM PST by Calvin Cooledge
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To: Rockitz

#ciatraitors


6 posted on 12/17/2016 8:19:48 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If the truth were known Obama has planted his seeds in every agency of consequence and they will have an influence in days to come. I have heard from someone who retired from the Pentagon who says Obama has planted lefties throughout.


7 posted on 12/17/2016 8:22:57 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: All

Frequently, polidiots, and many democrats and presstitutes, refer to the United States as a democracy. Others find this aggravating because, unlike in a democracy where citizens vote directly on laws, in the United States, elected representatives do – and, therefore, the U.S. is a republic......


8 posted on 12/17/2016 8:23:00 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: elpadre

...which is why the swamp must truly be drained. Trump may have to shut down entire agencies to get rid of them and then rebirth them from scratch. Any promotions over the last 8 years must be carefully scrutinized to weed out those promoted for political reasons.


9 posted on 12/17/2016 8:29:26 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: elpadre

Trump is going to have to fumigate all of these agencies. That’s why so many of them are trying to force a coup and takeover of the government by the commie ‘RATS.


10 posted on 12/17/2016 8:29:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Calvin Cooledge
I think on Monday or Tuesday, we’ll get a public statement from Comey or Clapper, where they contradict what Brennan said.

That would be rich but I wouldn't count on it. The FBI has been told to get it's head right.

11 posted on 12/17/2016 8:33:07 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Squantos

However, both democracy and republic have more than a single meaning, and one of the definitions we provide for democracy closely resembles the definition of republic given above: “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.”
So if someone asks you if the United States is a democracy or a republic, you may safely answer the question with either “both” or “it depends.”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/republic


I guess it depends on what is is?


12 posted on 12/17/2016 8:35:54 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Rockitz

The OSS was created in 1942/43 for covert activities during ww2. Once ww2 ended in 1945 the OSS was disbanded. In 47 the CIA was created as a means to interpret intelligence from the War Dept (maybe Defense Dept at this time) and Dept of State. There was no covert activities allowed or specified in the bill Truman signed. They immediately began hiring ex-OSS employees who were active in the covert programs during the war.

In 1948, Truman wrote an op ed in the NYT saying he never would of signed the authorization bill if he had known the CIA was going to do covert activities.

In the Church hearings it was stated that since the CIA was founded, it had performed over 10,000 covert actions. All of them illegal.


13 posted on 12/17/2016 8:41:37 PM PST by Vic S ( David Rockefeller killed Larry McDonald (Congressman, President of the Birch Society - KAL 007))
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To: PeterPrinciple

A republic and a democracy are identical in every aspect except one. In a republic the sovereignty is in each individual person. In a democracy the sovereignty is in the group.

Republic. That form of government in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whome those powers are specially delegated. [NOTE: The word “people” may be either plural or singular. In a republic the group only has advisory powers; the sovereign individual is free to reject the majority group-think. USA/exception: if 100% of a jury convicts, then the individual loses sovereignty and is subject to group-think as in a democracy.]

Democracy. That form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of free citizens directly or indirectly through a system of representation, as distinguished from a monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy. [NOTE: In a pure democracy, 51% beats 49%. In other words, the minority has no rights. The minority only has those privileges granted by the dictatorship of the majority.]

https://www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/repvsdem.htm

Stay Safe ..... hope yer well.


14 posted on 12/17/2016 8:54:08 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: SatinDoll

And CIA’s Brennan is an enemy islamist.

Voila!


15 posted on 12/17/2016 8:58:34 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Rockitz
up against the wall mother TRAITORS!!!
16 posted on 12/17/2016 9:03:05 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: Rockitz; LS
Any promotions over the last 8 years must be carefully scrutinized to weed out those promoted for political reasons.

Good place to start...

17 posted on 12/17/2016 9:03:17 PM PST by GOPJ ("Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats". P.J O'Rourke)
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To: Squantos

Yes and we also are/were a Federation of independent States.


18 posted on 12/17/2016 9:04:30 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: elpadre

They were there long before Obama!


19 posted on 12/17/2016 9:13:31 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Rockitz; LouieFisk

No excuse for the Muslim CIA director, but this bs of leaks to our mediots is an old tradition between the CIA and our mediots. The long tradition is known as Operation Mockingbird!

Operation Mockingbird

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Mockingbird was a campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media known for a fact to have operated at least during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
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Evidence of its continuity may possibly include the false mainstream media assertion of the existence of WMDs in Iraq that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ongoing efforts to label Wiki leaks documents as “fake news” by the same media outlets that were implicated by name by the Church Committee congressional hearings.

Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles, and was later led by Frank Wisner after Dulles became the head of the CIA. The organization recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network to help present the CIA’s views.

It funded some student and cultural organizations and magazines as fronts. As it developed, it also worked to influence foreign media and political campaigns, in addition to activities by other operating units of the CIA.
The CIA’s use of journalists continued unabated until 1973, when the program was scaled back, allegedly finally coming to a halt in 1976 when George H.W. Bush took over as director.

However this cannot be proven for a fact as the majority of documents pertaining to this operation were destroyed by the CIA while the Church Committee investigations were underway, undermining the credibility of the extent of the CIA’s cooperation with investigators.

In addition to earlier exposés of CIA activities in foreign affairs, in 1966, Ramparts magazine published an article revealing that the National Student Association was funded by the CIA. The United States Congress investigated the allegations and published a report in 1976. Other accounts were also published. The media operation was first called Mockingbird in Deborah Davis’s 1979 book, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and The Washington Post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
Thanks to: LouieFisk for this heads up!


20 posted on 12/17/2016 9:38:37 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's way past time to drain the 'not so intelligent' swamp... President Trump Disband the CIA!!!)
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