Posted on 08/21/2018 4:04:45 PM PDT by Hojczyk
This was the first time on record that a prominent elected official ever committed treason — which usually involves giving away the nation’s secrets or compromising intelligence assets — at a public event extensively covered by the international media.
What did Brennan mean by his charge? He apparently doesn’t know. Pressed by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, Brennan explained, incoherently, that “I said it was nothing short of treasonous. I didn’t mean that he committed treason.” Oh. Asked point-blank if he thinks that the president is serving the Russian government, he said that “I scratch my head a lot,” not the usual standard for alleging that someone committed a capital offense.
Brennan’s conceit is that there aren’t enough people already saying stupid and inflammatory things on Twitter and TV — the nation needs his voice, too.
This has made him the ideal target for Trump, since even some of the former intelligence officials who oppose the revocation of his security clearance are uncomfortable with how he has conducted himself.
The president’s adversaries may consider this unfair, but the institutions Trump targets are best served by not responding in kind. If the president says that the press can’t be trusted because it’s so biased, the press should react by being less biased rather than more. If he says that he’s being undone by a deep-state conspiracy, former intelligence officials should be more restrained rather than less.
Brennan either doesn’t understand this dynamic or doesn’t care. He has threatened a lawsuit, and Trump has welcomed one. The president is happy for a war with the most unhinged representative of the intelligence community at hand, and John O. Brennan is playing his role flawlessly.
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Brennan should never have been director of the CIA. The man is a communist and supports radical Islam.
Not to mention batshit crazy.
Voted commie when we were fighting the commies.
Went muzzie AS we were about to fight muzzies.
HE was Riyadh Station Chief when they approved ALL the visas of the 9-11 hijackers:
EVERYONE in the Embassy was against it —it was all they were talking about. Everyone was stunned, apoplectic.
ONE solitary person was in favor —John Brennan. He moved heaven and earth to make sure it happened, and it did.
And a LOT of people think it was a Saudi OPERATION, to entince Brennan and get him to convert.
AND HE DID.
also refused to be sworn in on a bible.
Brennan went back to Washington in 1999. Most of the hijackers came here in 2000 or 2001.
But the picture you paint has got problems: The CIA station chief had to approve of all visas to the US? And the staff was opposed to some visas given? On what basis? How many visa applications did they object to? And was it just the applicants who turned out to be terrorists? How did they know in advance who was a terrorist? How likely is it that embassy personnel in Saudi Arabia were opposed in general to giving visas to Saudis, given what we know about the foreign service?
Your story doesn't make much sense.
Hi gaijin, Is there a source available online for the info you posted?
And he appears mentally unstable, and he makes really stupid comments.
When he said "Nothing short of treason" he doesn't realize he really said the President committed treason - Trump did not come up short of committing treason -in his little pea brain.
Brennan might be criminally insane, literally.
He belongs in Leavenworth.
“the most unhinged representative of the intelligence community at hand, and John O. Brennan is playing his role flawlessly”
I had to turn off Rich Lowry on Bernie and aid the other day while he was spewing about how trump shouldn’t have taken his sec clearance. The politics
It was as disgusting as it gets for the never trumpers
I think Brennan was the model for Brody on Homeland.
Brennan is a prime example of a post turtle.
I don’t watch Homeland; is Brody a massive piece of crap?
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