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Ex-CIA Director Brennan: Officials should refuse to fire Mueller if asked to by Trump
CNN ^ | 07/24/2017 | By Barbara Starr,

Posted on 07/24/2017 7:38:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Former CIA Director John Brennan says government officials should refuse orders to fire special counsel Robert Mueller if they are told to by the White House.

"I think it's the obligation of some executive branch officials to refuse to carry that out. I would just hope that this is not going to be a partisan issue. That Republicans, Democrats are going to see that the future of this government is at stake and something needs to be done for the good of the future," Brennan told CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the Aspen Security Forum.

Brennan was appearing with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and both men, who served in the Obama administration, told Blitzer they have total confidence in Mueller. "Absolutely. It was an inspired choice- they don't come any better, " Brennan said. He added that "If Mueller is fired, I hope our elected reps will stand up and say enough is enough."

Clapper again warned publicly about Russian interference in US affairs. He was asked about the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort had with a Russian lawyer and others.

"I'm an old school, Cold War warrior and all that -- so I have, there's truth in advertising, great suspicions about the Russians and what they do. A lot of this to me had kind of the standard textbook tradecraft long deployed by Russians," Clapper said. "It would have been a really good idea maybe to have vetted whoever they were meeting with."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brennan; cia; mueller; russia
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To: SeekAndFind

FU you traitor


21 posted on 07/24/2017 8:03:59 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! Boycott Mex/Can, nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder what one would find, if one did a comprehensive search of Brennan’s papers and effects? And of all the communications between Brennan and his correspondents stored in the NSA’s databases?


22 posted on 07/24/2017 8:04:33 PM PDT by sourcery (Non Acquiescit: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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To: SeekAndFind
"I think it's the obligation of some executive branch officials to refuse to carry that out.

I would just hope that this is not going to be a partisan issue.

LOL!

23 posted on 07/24/2017 8:04:57 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: House Atreides
 

I expect John McCain and Lindsey Graham to soon join this chorus of traitors.

They won't be alone, either.

Paul Ryan Defends Robert Mueller: ‘Anything But’ a ‘Biased Partisan’


24 posted on 07/24/2017 8:06:23 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: FreeReign

RE: Okay Brennan. Let’s say Trump tells Mueller that he’s fired. Then exactly what are you advocating? Be specific.

Let’s be blunt -— Brennan is effectively calling for a COUP against the president should Trump give the order to fire Mueller.


25 posted on 07/24/2017 8:07:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

26 posted on 07/24/2017 8:07:55 PM PDT by doug from upland (Mayflower Hotel --- hotel of choice for Dem officials and their hookers)
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To: SeekAndFind

Brennan is an unethical, dishonest scumbag. If they ever look and actually get to the bottom of this Russia thing and the leaking of classified information, he will be at the center of it.


27 posted on 07/24/2017 8:07:57 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: SeekAndFind

Muzzlime TRAITOR. Hang him.


28 posted on 07/24/2017 8:09:11 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: SeekAndFind
I would just hope that this is not going to be a partisan issue.

It already is a partisan issue you dolt. Thats why it needs to end.

29 posted on 07/24/2017 8:09:30 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Bratch

So many seditionists and traitors...so little time.


30 posted on 07/24/2017 8:09:36 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m a (very junior) cold warrior myself and find Brennan’s response to be so much swooning over “indelicate” conversation.


31 posted on 07/24/2017 8:09:40 PM PDT by jimfree (My17 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah sure LoL Brennan. Someone else gets fired and possibly frog marched out of the building while the Treasury cuts off Mueller’s blank check funding.


32 posted on 07/24/2017 8:11:23 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: SeekAndFind

President Trump should have locked this traitor and the entire bunch in Guantanamo Bay on Day 1.


33 posted on 07/24/2017 8:13:20 PM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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To: GnuThere

He went spirit of antichrist.

Of course he would lick Obama’s high heels.


34 posted on 07/24/2017 8:13:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 21:36 KJV Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all...)
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To: UCANSEE2

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing for this case and the case of the DC Police Destroying the Hard Drives before giving them to the FBI.

LOCK THEM UP!!!


35 posted on 07/24/2017 8:14:45 PM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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To: SeekAndFind
"I'm an old school, Cold War warrior and all that

One of the hallmarks of the 'old school Cold War warrior' is making sure the boogeyman is sufficiently scary to justify all the counterboogeyman expenditures. If the public doesn't fear the Soviets enough, they may not cheer the defense contracts for new aircraft carriers and fighterbombers. Another hallmark is a pathology of keeping that cold war cold. Don't stop the campaign interference by Russia, the incursions into Crimea or Arkadia, provocative sorties near Alaska, the assassination of dissidents, the support of Iran and Hizbullah; just monitor it, express chest thumping disgust, and if necessary push for sanctions. If Brennan was such a good old school Cold Warrior, and if that is a thing worth being proud of, where was he when Russia was shaming the US and testing our 'red lines'? I guess he was powerless to do anything as a low level government employee. He can't have it both ways.

36 posted on 07/24/2017 8:20:53 PM PDT by jz638
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To: SeekAndFind

se·di·tion
noun
conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
synonyms: rabble-rousing, incitement to rebel, subversion, troublemaking, provocation

Pull his generous govt. pension & gold-plated health care, and deport this traitor.


37 posted on 07/24/2017 8:23:45 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: hal ogen

38 posted on 07/24/2017 8:26:56 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nah, they’re just trying to set up another “Saturday Night Massacre” scenario.

They want another Watergate so bad they can taste it.


39 posted on 07/24/2017 8:28:57 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Bratch

Yeah and Paul Ryan is trustworthy. /gag spit


40 posted on 07/24/2017 8:29:25 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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