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http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/angry-former-spy-chiefs-anxiety-and-discord-at-a-security-forum-over-trump

Angry Former Spy Chiefs, Anxiety, and Discord at a Security Forum Over Trump

July 22, 2017

On Friday, Brennan and Clapper returned to the forum, an annual gathering held by the Aspen Institute far from Washington to foster bipartisan consensus regarding national security. Sitting shoulder to shoulder onstage, the two former intelligence chiefs unleashed a blistering and highly unusual public critique of a sitting President by two former intelligence chiefs. Brennan urged members of Congress to resist President Trump if he fires Robert Mueller, the special counsel. “I hope, I really hope, that our members of Congress, elected representatives, are going to stand up and say, ‘enough is enough,’ and stop making apologies and excuses for things that are happening that really flout, I think, our system of laws and government.”

Brennan added that he thought it was “the obligation of some executive-branch officials to refuse to carry out some of these orders that, again, are inconsistent with what this country is all about.”

(more at link)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/former-obama-spy-chiefs-upbraid-trump-over-his-remarks-about-his-intelligence-community/2017/07/21/01764e7e-6e82-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.1fdb751dd231

If Trump attempts to fire Mueller, “I hope that our members of Congress are going to stand up and say, ‘Enough is enough,’ ” Brennan said.

He added that he thought it would be “the obligation of executive branch officials to refuse” to carry out such an order.

(snip)

At the end of their panel discussion, Clapper and Brennan received a standing ovation.


124 posted on 07/23/2017 9:33:48 AM PDT by maggief
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Bfl


130 posted on 07/23/2017 10:22:09 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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