Posted on 01/15/2017 12:41:41 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan had some sharp criticism and warnings Sunday for Donald Trump, saying the incoming president doesnt have a full understanding of Russias power and threat to the world.
I dont think he has a full understanding of Russian capabilities and the actions they are taking on the world, Brennan told Fox News Sunday.
He also suggested that Trump lacks full appreciation of Russias aggression or about why President Obama imposed sanctions on the Kremlin for meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Mr. Trump has to understand that absolving Russia is a road that he needs to be very, very careful about moving down, Brennan said.
Brennan was appointed by President Obama in 2013 to run the countrys premier spy agency.
Trump has repeatedly suggested better U.S. ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And he has been particularly suspect of the entire U.S. intelligence community since it concluded Russia and Putin tried to influence the elections, in an apparent effort to help Trump defeat Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Brennan said Trump likening the U.S. intelligence community to Nazi German for presumably leaking the content of an opposition-research dossier on him is outrageous.
"There is no interest in undermining the president elect, he said. Our responsibility is to understand dangers on the world stage so (Trump and his Republican administration) have the intel we have so they can make best decision.
However, he said Trump needs to be disciplined and that hell face numerous challenges in his presidency that begins Friday -- with terrorism, cybersecurity, North Korea and Middle East instability among those at the top.
So many issues on Day One, Brennan said.
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Russia is only a threat to militant muslims. Obama’s administration is nothing but muslim brotherhood terrorists.
I can’t wait until Trump places the MB back on the terrorist list.
He knows he’s history. Hopefully at 12:01 pm on Friday, January 20, 2017.
Some folks say the CIA has become politicized. Other says that’s not true. I’m glad Brennan is here to straighten that out.
Brennan was disgusting, duplicitous, and treasonous. He really wants that new cold war and to advance Saudi Sunni interests in the middle east.
He should be arrested.
I don’t really understand Brennan’s threat.
“Brennan can, and should, say everything he has to say during his exit interview.”
The Director of the CIA should not be playing pundit on Sunday morning entertainment shows. He can audition after Jan. 20.
My blue-eyed slaves.
Not soon enough
Trump should be more focused on understanding Brennan than Putin and protecting our national interests from both of them
Good question. I presume the answer is Brennan will be done when Pompeo is confirmed. Has anyone heard when the Senate will vote on the nominees? If Pompeo’s confirmation is delayed until after 1/20/2017, would Trump name a temporary replacement for Brennan?
CIA Director John Brennan implored President-elect Donald Trump to put his confidence in the intelligence community. (John, PEOTUS is not a fool.)
This is from the man who signed the visas of all 19 of the 9-11 hijackers over the objections of his consulate staff
How ironic. Trump doesn’t “fully understand” the threat from Russia?
The Marxist Islamophile thug CIA director and his Marxist Islamophile thug boss President Obama themselves never “fully understood” the threat from militant Islam or if they did, they sided with the Islamists against the USA.
By backing Islamists they certainly succeeded in making an utter catastrophe out of Syria, Libya, Egypt, Iran and all over the Middle East and sending millions of Muslims into Europe to destabilize it with the connivance of European socialists and morons like Merkel.
Incompetence or malice? That is the question truly worth discussing.
I don’t fully understand Brennan.
“He also suggested that Trump lacks full appreciation of Russias aggression”
Their “aggression” was growling a bit when after the Kiev coup, NATO finally was literally about to move directly up to their borders and take over a Navy base they have owned since 1783. Then NATO also attacked Syria, their long time ally and only permanent base outside of Russia.
We call a fairly measured response to those direct threats “aggression”.
I for one am glad we are getting a president who generally sees war and cold war as an annoyance to be avoided if at all possible.
Get this incompetent goatherd wannabe the hell out of our government by no later than Jan 21st!
5 more days and the draining begins.
I’ve wondered on another thread if ideally the CIA should be abolished. Draining that swamp is impossible; it has to be nuked.
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