Posted on 08/17/2018 11:07:44 AM PDT by jazusamo
John Brennan rallied numerous high-powered defenders to his corner over his security clearance clash with President Trump, but some well-known special ops heroes are firing back suggesting the former CIA director got what he deserves.
Kris “Tanto” Paronto, a former Army Ranger and private security contractor who was part of the CIA team that fought back during the 2012 Benghazi terror attack, accused Brennan of putting his “politics” before those in the field.
“He is lucky the security clearance is all he is getting away with,” Paronto told Fox News in an interview on Friday.
Responding a day earlier to Brennan’s tweet that his “principles are worth far more than clearances,” Paronto also tweeted:
“My principles are greater than clearances too John, especially when you and the @CIA kool-aid drinkers punishes us for not going along with the Benghazi cover-up story in order to protect you, @HillaryClinton’s & @BarackObama’s failures. You put your politics before us.”
Paronto helped write the book "13 Hours," later turned into a feature film, about the Benghazi attack. He has said he and his team lost their security clearances for speaking out.
Security operators including Paronto previously had to sign non-disclosure agreements -- Paronto told Fox News he signed three pertaining to Benghazi within a six-month period -- though Brennan told lawmakers in 2014 this was not a specific effort to prevent them from speaking to Congress.
Paronto maintains, however, that he didn't share classified information in telling the Benghazi story and continues to object to their clearances being revoked.
“Normally when you have a clearance suspended, you’re supposed to know why ... I was never given that,” he said, blaming Brennan. “It was his determination whether we kept our clearances or not.”
He also took exception at how the Benghazi team was treated...
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So you don't want forced arena combat between Obama and/or Brennan, Comey, or Kerry? (I'm thinking of the movie with Kirk Douglas.)
Maybe they can share a tree...
Mueller and Comey claim to be Republican.
Graham, McCain, Rubio, Flake, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, Alexander and Corker all wear R jerseys and betrayed the citizens voting for amnesty.
I’d rather he simply expires one day on his prayer rug.
No, I was thinking of the miles of crucifixtions that historically happened, 6000 executed, not counting the thousands killed in battle earlier. Romans wanted to kill that precedent for all time.
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