Posted on 06/01/2018 6:55:51 AM PDT by EdnaMode
My first visit to the Oval Office came in October 1990, when I was a 35-year-old CIA officer.
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Over the next quarter-century, I returned to the Oval Office several hundred times during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The jitters that accompanied my first Oval Office visit dissipated over time, but the respect, awe and admiration I held for the office of the presidency and the incumbents never waned. The presidents I directly served were not perfect, and I didnt agree with all of their policy choices. But I never doubted that each treated their solemn responsibility to lead our nation with anything less than the seriousness, intellectual rigor and principles that it deserved. Many times, I heard them dismiss the political concerns of their advisers, saying, I dont care about my politics, its the right thing to do.
The esteem with which I held the presidency was dealt a serious blow when Donald Trump took office. Almost immediately, I began to see a startling aberration from the remarkable, though human, presidents I had served. Mr. Trumps lifelong preoccupation with aggrandizing himself seemed to intensify in office, and he quickly leveraged his 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. address and his Twitter handle to burnish his brand and misrepresent reality.
Presidents throughout the years have differed in their approaches to policy, based on political platforms, ideologies and individual beliefs. Mr. Trump, however, has shown highly abnormal behavior by lying routinely to the American people without compunction, intentionally fueling divisions in our country and actively working to degrade the imperfect but critical institutions that serve us.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Brennan and ObaMao just sunk it to a whole new level. JFK's comment about needing to break the CIA into a million pieces has come to pass.
Don’t you wish this cranky, old retard would just STFU. Nobody cares what the hell he thinks. We went 8 years with the White House having no integrity under the Obama regime. It took President Trump to bring integrity back. This old fag needs to just shut up. When Americans want any crap out of him, we’ll unscrew his head and dip it out.
Integrity, like math, is not a friend of liberals/progressives (or whatever new made up name the marshmallows have cooked up for themselves.
I don’t either.
This Benedict Arnold communist needs to be investigated, prosecuted and hanged for crimes against the US Government and its people.
...or, until he’s charged and gets a lawyer.
Barack Hussein Obama: 1st muslim president
Valerie Jarrett: 1st muslim senior advisor
John Brennan: 1st muslim cia director
Eric Holder: 1st attorney general to be held in contempt of congress
et cetera...
Lots of bad firsts in the obama regime
I sincerely hope you are not expecting me to read the article from the WaPo? LOL!
Seems like the Washington Post could have asked for some specific examples of, say, when Trump has lied, etc.
Brennan is truly evil, and the MSM is trying to make him look like a good guy (reminiscent of Comey, etc.).
Brennan keeps flapping his gums on a topic that he is woefully ignorant of. He wouldn’t know integrity if it walked up to him and crushed his larynx.
That is a theory that I would love to see put to the test.
Brennan stared this hole “get Trump” mess. He is guilty of insurrection and should hang.
Truth is anything the Dems/Progressives/Libs say.......a lie is anything the Conservatives/Republicans say. Its a brave, new world and we cannot jump on that bandwagon! We must fight to regain the integrity of the country and the respect of foreign nations. I am pretty sure that integrity and respect are making a comeback.
Yes! But no scandals, of course......(facepalm)
Deceive, deny, deflect, delay.... John Brennans working mantra
‘the IC report’
The one that was just postponed AGAIN? Looks like they’ve finally settled on a good release date: one that corresponds closely with the North Korean/Trump summit. That will make it very convenient to bury any bad news [for the Deep State] that IG-Holder-is-Totally-Innocent-Horowitz happens to let slip.
Deceive, deny, deflect, delay.... John Brennans working mantra
Unelected, bureaucratic Intelligence Chief plots coup against incoming President.
Doesn’t succeed, but he retires comfortably, takes job with media, and continues to attack same President.
America has crossed the Rubicon. Bye Bye Republic.
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