Posted on 05/22/2018 4:40:21 AM PDT by SJackson
Former CIA chief faces the legal consequences of his dirty deeds.
John Brennan, director of the CIA during the Obama administration, is running for cover. He could be facing criminal charges for his role in the Deep State cabal that sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and then to undermine the legitimacy of the duly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump. Acting in desperation as the noose tightens around him, Brennan tweeted a warning to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, claiming they will "bear the majority of the responsibility of the harm done to our democracy" if they don’t stop President Trump from continuing along his “disastrous path.” The “disastrous path” to which Brennan took such umbrage was the president’s own tweet on Sunday, in response to news reports that an FBI informant was hovering around members of Mr. Trump's campaign and asking them questions under false pretenses. President Trump demanded “that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”
Brennan is evidently unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution. Here is a simple explanation for the man who once voted for the Communist Party candidate for president, Gus Hall, even though Hall by then had been a long-time enthusiastic supporter of the Communist Soviet Union’s hardline expansionist policies. The Department of Justice is part of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. Under Article II of the Constitution, Mr. Brennan, the president of the United States is the head of the Executive Branch. The president, therefore, is acting within his constitutional authority to order the Department of Justice to undertake an investigation of possible abuse of power for political purposes within the Executive Branch over which he now presides.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has proven that he is no shrinking violet, had no trouble ordering the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office to look into the matter raised by the president. Unlike Brennan, he understands the scope of the president's constitutional authority. Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein said in a statement: “If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action." Department of Justice spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores added, "The Department has asked the Inspector General to expand the ongoing review of the FISA application process to include determining whether there was any impropriety or political motivation in how the FBI conducted its counterintelligence investigation of persons suspected of involvement with the Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 presidential election."
President Trump believes, for good reason, that Brennan was at the center of the cabal seeking to take him down. Borrowing from the sentiments of a former Secret Service agent and conservative commentator, Dan Bongino, President Trump tweeted on Monday morning that Brennan was the “one man who is largely responsible for the destruction of American’s faith in the Intelligence Community and in some people at the top of the FBI. Brennan started this entire debacle about President Trump.”
Indeed, Brennan was the prime instigator behind the Russian collusion witch hunt, which grinds on despite having uncovered apparently no evidence implicating the president after more than a year of investigation. Brennan pushed the FBI to get involved, using the discredited, unverified Steele dossier as a lure. The dossier was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, but that did not matter to Brennan and his cabal. “Just because it was unverified didn’t mean it wasn’t true,” Brennan said about the dossier on Meet the Press earlier this year. The dossier served as a major justification for the FBI and the Department of Justice to apply to the FISA court for a surveillance warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
As the Tablet reported, “The warrant allowed the FBI to intercept not only the communications of Page, but also anyone in contact with Page whose metadata—phone number, email, etc.—might have signaled a pattern interpreted by FBI analysts as potentially meaningful to a counterintelligence investigation. In other words, the warrant was a backdoor giving the FBI access to spy on the entire Trump campaign.”
In trying to distance himself from the infamous Steele dossier, which played such a critical role in moving the Russian collusion investigation forward, Brennan may have committed perjury in his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in May 2017. Brennan claimed that he did not know who commissioned the Steele dossier and had “no awareness” whether the FBI ever relied on the Steele dossier as part of any court filing. He also denied that the CIA had relied on the dossier. According to a report by Paul Sperry, published by RealClear Investigations on February 11, 2018, “Several Capitol Hill sources say Brennan, a fiercely loyal Obama appointee, talked up the dossier to Democratic leaders, as well as the press, during the campaign. They say he also fed allegations about Trump-Russia contacts directly to the FBI, while pressuring the bureau to conduct an investigation of several Trump campaign figures starting in the summer of 2016.”
President Trump picked up on Brennan’s dissembling in his May 21st tweets, quoting Dan Bongino: “We now know that Brennan had detailed knowledge of the (phony) Dossier...he knows about the Dossier, he denies knowledge of the Dossier, he briefs the Gang of 8 on the Hill about the Dossier, which they then used to start an investigation about Trump…Brennan has disgraced himself, he’s worried about staying out of Jail.”
John Brennan used his perch as CIA director to subvert the U.S. political system in a way that would make Vladimir Putin’s KGB and its successor, the Federal Security Service, proud. Brennan must now face the full consequences of his actions.
“We’re a Constitutional Republic!!”
I’m not sure constitutional has much to do with it either other than we have one.
America is a ‘Representative Republic’.
WaPo is now reporting that Halper is the informant. I think that’s a clue that there is more to this story than we know. I would not be surprised at this point if Carter Page turned out to be a plant.
Afterall, he was stationed in Moscow as the branch manager at Merrill Lynch. What better cover for a spy? Then he comes home and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a counter-espionage investigation that leads to the expulsion of a Russian diplomat and the arrest of a Russian spy. But he is not touched. Then he again suddenly surfaces as a volunteer in the Trump campaign at precisely the moment that the FBI is looking for an infiltrator, yet again, he is not touched. The news that he met with Halper and that he traveled to Moscow and the fact that he’s mentioned in the GPS dossier don’t deter me. Those “facts” could all be red-herrings intended to give him cover.
A pure democracy always fails. A Constitutional Republic may survive.
You’ve got that right! Such a shame!
Same set of questions for ValJar....
I think the Russians are going to have to “extract” Brennan.
Your analysis of Carter Pages is very good.
He was either complicit or is an idiot.
muslim. Communist.
NOTHING will happen to ANY of these traitors and criminals!
Well aren’t you Miss Sunshine this morning. /s
You have no idea what is going on behind the scene.
President Trump came into office with the DOJ and FBI actively working against him. And don’t forget the 24/7 hate fest by the media and the entertainment industry.
If he had tried to do anything in the beginning he would have been destroyed.
I think President Trump knew about all this from the beginning. The question was, how to get it all out into public view? His use of Twitter is brilliant. He tweets something, the left goes insane, the media denies it all, and then later the truth leaks out.
It is all about timing. Strike too soon and they skate. So President Trump is allowing the public time to grasp just how bad the Democrats have become.
The entire Mueller investigation is bringing out nothing but bad news for the Democrats. When all is said and done, it will be shown that the Democrats should have shut up, accept the loss, and wait for the next election. Now it is too late. The wheels of justice grind slow, but also very fine.
People will be going to jail, it is just a matter who makes the deal first.
And the cherry on top of all this good news is that President Trump is able to get most of his agenda done. Sure there is more to do, but we have won things that would not have been possible without President Trump.
So if it makes you feel better by believing nothing as changed in the world, go right ahead. Me, I think we are seeing major changes in our nation, most good.
Yep.. look at Hasert..
Who on that list has done a damned thing about it.
Mitch McConnell?
Paul Ryan?
Senator Burr?
Devin Nunez Oh hell yes!
Wrong. The states still control the Preidential election process via electoral votes. We still have the 3 branches of the federal government and their responsibilities and limitations.
“Just because it was unverified didn’t mean it wasn’t true,” Brennan said about the dossier on Meet the Press earlier this year.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-february-4-2018-n844541
Qanon website had photo of an empty canoe with caption warning of CTOP. “Canoe Trip On Potomac.”
Kills me when people refer to “Democracy”!
We’re a Constitutional Republic!!
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I think it’s part of a leftist effort, through narrative, to fundamentally change the USA to a democracy, this mob-rule majority wins. Freedom of worship they use, bs freedom of religion is another.
I’m afraid that you’re correct Ann. Who will prosecute these criminals? The IG doesn’t have that power and you can bet that Rosenstein will thwart every attempt by Congress to act. Sessions is recused from everything so we’re left with the old mantra..mistakes were made. My only hope is that President Trump is so “ticked off” that he finds a way to “hang” the whole bunch.
He may be impaled yet.
Better though would be hanged with his fellow plotters.
When the smoke clears and the dogtags are checked...
<>Paul Ryan
<>REINCE PRIEBUS
<>Bush family
<>Bill Kristol
Will these folks be among the bad boys or just cheerleaders on the sidelines?
It will not surprise me if Brennan absconds to Iran or some other muslim country..............
Brennan makes my skin crawl.
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