Posted on 08/19/2018 1:03:19 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Former CIA Director John Brennan risked damaging the intelligence community with his anti-Trump comments, retired Adm. Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told "Fox News Sunday."
Mullen's comments came as several former intelligence officials appeared on Sunday talk shows, including Brennan -- who floated the possibility of taking legal action against the president.
"I think John's an extraordinary servant of the country, but I think he has been incredibly critical of the president, and I think that has put him in a political place which actually does more damage for the intelligence community -- which is apolitical," Mullen said.
Brennan had publicly accused President Trump of "treason" after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin this summer in Helsinki, Finland, and he has repeatedly lambasted Trump with Twitter posts that critics have charged improperly hint at classified insider information about the ongoing Russia probe.
However, Mullen added, Trump's decision to revoke Brennan's security clearance last week raised significant concerns.
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders read a statement on behalf of the president during the start of the press briefing, saying Brennan "has a history that calls his credibility into question."
Specifically, the president's statement criticized Brennan for falsely telling Congress that the CIA had not infiltrated Senate computers, and for claiming that the unverified Steele dossier was not a factor in 2016 intelligence assessments.
The statement also claimed Brennan had been "leveraging" the clearance to make "wild outbursts" and claims against the Trump administration in the media.
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Brennan is a rooty toot but he sees the house of cards is about to fall on him.
“I think John’s an extraordinary servant of the country,.....”
That part is so disgusting.
> I think Brennan is a muslim and a jihadi <
Here’s an interesting thing. The rumor that Brennan is a Muslim has been circulating for quite awhile now. So Snopes looked into it.
Snopes is an extremely left-leaning “fact-checking” site. It whitewashes every bad thing about every liberal. And when a liberal is caught red-handed (like Hillary caught lying on tape), Snopes bends over backwards to explain it away.
Well, Snopes says Brennan being a Muslim is “unproven”. Coming from Snopes, that’s pretty damning.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cia-director-john-brennan-muslim/
A country that ceased to exist on Christmas Day 1991.
Anybody stepping out to complain about Brennan's clearance getting yanked are also automatically suspect.
Treasonous scumbags, every one of them.
The veneer of a fake, nonpartisan intelligence “community” has been ripped off. Let’s keep it that way.
“I think John’s an extraordinary servant of the country, but I think he has been incredibly critical of the president, and I think that has put him in a political place which actually does more damage for the intelligence community — which is apolitical,” Mullen said.
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Apolitical my donkey.
Translation:
We’re being outed as the anti-American thugs that we are.
Mullen will always have to carry the burdensome image of having been a long-standing servant of barack obama, so he would be well-advised to lay low and enjoy the fruits of his own security clearance, which is no doubt paying him handsomely. Clearances are discretionary, a privilege and not a right; having one invests one in the unspoken agreement to remain circumspect and avoid trashing the ultimate arbiter of their clearance.
Fact of the matter is that, Brennan was put in place to actually do damage to the country. That he has damaged the CIA is just part of the overall plan. It’s Obama’s plan, and that of Valerie Jarret and the whole Obama administration. We elected America’s enemies to control the country. Brenner was doing exactly what was expected of him, and when Obama’s terms were over, the work had to continue.
The media continues to lie to the country about what Obama and Brennan and Clapper were actually up to.
Trump is now undoing the damage, and the enemies within can’t handle the undoing of their dastardly acts.
Brennan is a lazy, lying SOB.
C’mon, John. Put up or shutup. If you have nothing on Trump then HE WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT TO YANK YOUR CLEARANCE!
Tons and tons of BS in that comment.
That’s the only way this security clearance revocation is a BIG DEAL.
Now we need a timeline of who and what have been leaked to Jihadi Brennan, the RICO Seditionist.
They all thought she would win. All of the Trump haters and Clinton/Obama sycophants were expecting great rewards.
Brain tumor defense in the making ...
The hard Left defines the country as what it can be under Marxism. That is the country to them.
The free market, free exchange of ideas country...that is not what America is to them...that is the enemy.
The RadLeft is out to destroy the old and bring in the new.
It is a religion to them. They are like Mormon missionaries knocking on your door, but they are not nice or polite.
They are true believers.
Obama told us that he was a true believer...and so did Brennan by his actions.
We are in the midst of a war for our country.
It is not a civil war because they are not civil.
That said, it is existential and not just for the country. If they win, we are dead men walking.
“The hard Left defines the country as what it can be under Marxism. That is the country to them.”
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I agree with all you said but have a slightly different perspective on the above.
Imo, it’s only the Thought Bosses that have that belief/goal in mind.
The rank and file are those who’ve never progressed, emotionally, psychologically, mentally past the idiot child stage. There is no thinking among them. They are pure feelz. And they feelz what their Thought Bosses tell them to feelz, without a single critical thought.
That’s how you can get 4th wave feminists who rant and rave on everything, even to the point of claiming all penis in vagina sex is rape, regardless of circumstances, and support Sharia Law, female genital mutilation and the burka.
There is no thinking. Therefore, facts, regardless of how obviously true, mean nothing to them. There is no relation of cause to effect in any of their world views, and it matters not a whit to them.
The roughness of life used to control the pop size of that particular subclass of humanity. It doesn’t anymore. And there’s no peaceful way to deal with them.
Yes? Too bad it's some other country and not the USA.I think he has been incredibly critical of the president
If you payed more attention and you wouldn't THINK that, you would KNOW that.I think that has put him in a political place which actually does more damage for the intelligence community -- which is apolitical
Yes - He damages the intelligence community.Thanks to people like Brennan and Clapper they have lost the trust and respect of most of the nation.No - The intelligence community isn't apolitical and hasn't been for the best part of 10 years or more.
They need to get back to actually doing their jobs and stop trying to rig US elections and overthrow US presidents.
“FWIW, Rear Admiral Mullen was the head of the Benghazi Acountbilty Review Board that whitewashed Hillary Clinton “
He didn't really go after POTUS but he didn't really defend him either
I guess Mullen is smart & doesn't want to let everyone know he is a partisan Liberal hack like Admiral McKraven
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