Just to pile on, in 1994, I briefed LTG Clapper when he was the Director of DIA. I ran the Unconventional Warfare Branch at the Army Intelligence Center at the time and briefed him on Military Intelligence (Army) doctrine vis-à-vis unconventional warfare. He didn’t have even the slightest clue as to what I was talking about - a certifiable idiot who asked completely irrelevant, off-topic questions.
As to Brennan, quite a few years later, when I was detailed to the White House as a CT Advisor following 9/11, there were a number of NSC meetings that Brennan was not permitted to attend, even though he was a Senior Director on the NSC Staff. I asked a friend who was a senior CIA case officer why and he replied, “It’s pretty much acknowledged that Brennan converted to Islam” [during his lengthy tenure in Riyadh]. Brennan’s not an idiot, but he is a snake.
Thanks, good info.
“Brennan’s not an idiot, but he is a snake.”
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Sadly, nothing you stated is surprising. Clapper strikes me as a political animal whose greatest talent is knowing what butts to kiss, but who brings nothing substantive to the table.