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Brennan Explains Why He Believes It's 'Outrageous' For Barr To Investigate Russia Probe Origins
townhall.com ^ | 5/26/19 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 05/27/2019 3:14:42 AM PDT by a little elbow grease

President Donald Trump on Thursday granted Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify information relevant to the investigation into how spying on the Trump campaign started in 2016. Former CIA Director John Brennan appeared on MSNBC's "All in with Chris Hayes" to discuss the decision.

According to Brennan, Barr investigating the origins of the Russia probe is "outrageous."

"How big a deal do you read the portion of the executive order last night that appears to give [Attorney General William] Barr the unilateral authority to declassify?" Hayes asked.

"Well, I see it as a very, very serious and outrageous move on the part of Mr. Trump, once again, trampling on the statutory authorities of the Director of National Intelligence and the heads of the independent intelligence agencies. And it's unclear to me what Mr. Barr is actually going to do. Is he investigating a crime? Well, what's the predication of that crime? Or is he just going to be looking for information?" Brennan asked.

"I think it's rightly, as you pointed out, right at the top, that Mr. Trump can just give to just some of his defenders on the right and cherrypick information that could be taken out of context. But, I think more fundamentally, is the concern is that very, very precious source and methods of the United States intelligence community, as well as our partners and allies abroad, those who share this sensitive information with us," Brennan explained. "Is Mr. Barr, who doesn't have an understanding of the equities involved, is he just going to release information he deems appropriate for Mr. Trump's defense? So this is very serious and I know my former colleagues in the intelligence agencies are looking upon this with great concern and worry."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: brennan; cia; disgraced; johnbrennan; spook; treason; trump
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To: a little elbow grease

But of course we know why Brennan considers it outrageous.


21 posted on 05/27/2019 4:38:36 AM PDT by Savage Beast (A Manichaean struggle between TRUTH and evil grips America. Pray for the triumph of TRUMP and TRUTH!)
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To: Vendome; caww; Diogenesis; bitt; bagster; JonPreston; 2ndDivisionVet; frog in a pot; onyx; ...

“And it’s unclear to me what Mr. Barr is actually going to do. Is he investigating a crime? Well, what’s the predication of that crime? Or is he just going to be looking for information?” Brennan asked.
That’s hilarious...”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdTetA_Dqo

Jessup: “I’m being charged with a crime, is that what this is?”

A Few Good Men - Jessup Is Arrested


22 posted on 05/27/2019 4:40:32 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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John Brennan’s unhinged anger, his demeaning Pres Trump, is now clear:
he is implicated in deep state lies WRT the Trump-Russia collusion hoax

The National Sentinel | May 7, 2019 | Jon Dougherty / FR Posted by E. Pluribus Unum

For nearly two years, former CIA Director John Brennan has launched one unhinged tweet after another in POTUS Donald Trump’s director, calling him unstable and insinuating that he’s a Manchurian candidate working on behalf of Mother Russia and a stooge of President Vladimir Putin. Political observers (us included) have watched in morbid fascination as Brennan increasingly ranted and raged against the president.

Now it all makes sense.

The Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross reported on texts and emails belonging to lovebirds---former FBI counter-intelligence official Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page----inquiring or speculating as to where a series of fantastic claims regarding POTUS Trump, his campaign, and alleged “collusion” with Russian President Vladimir Putin to “steal the election” from Hillary Clinton shortly after the president beat her in November 2016.

Strzok makes it clear that “sister agencies” — that is, other agencies within Obama's U.S. intelligence community — were leaking information that neither he nor the FBI had. “Think our sisters have begun leaking like mad. Scorned and worried and political, they’re kicking in to overdrive,” Strzok wrote Page on December 15, 2016.

The same day, (cough) ‘coincidentally,’ NBC News just happened to report that Putin was directly involved in ‘hacking’ the “U.S. election”: Obama's US intelligence officials (were cued) to now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Two senior officials in the Obama admin with direct access to the information say (cough) new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used... (Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...

23 posted on 05/27/2019 4:40:46 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing reveal Brennan was the mastermind of the Russia hoax
americanthinker.com | Thomas Lifson / FR Posted by RoosterRedux

Anyone closely following the Russia hoax and its collapse understands that DC superlawyers Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing have by far the best track record in accurately calling out the nature of the scandal and identifying the coming revelations.*snip*

Yesterday, they spent an hour with Sebastian Gorka on his Salem Radio syndicated talk show and gave us a preview of sorts about where the scandal is headed next.*snip*

They also revealed the Admiral Mike Rogers is happily willing to testify about the abuses that he uncovered, which actually triggered the initiation of the Russiagate plot. Recall that when he was head of the National Security Agency (NSA) which comprehensively monitors telecommunications, he discovered that political appointees in the White House were using its database on a huge scale to monitor political opponents, and acted to cut off that access. Suddenly cut off from their ability to spy on political opponents, and almost certainly fearful of public exposure should Hillary Clinton be defeated, the wheels were put in motion (with Brennan in the lead) to generate the Steele dossier and the FISA warrants to both spy on and tar the threat of a Trump presidency.

There is lot of other discussion that follows that is very intriguing, including consideration of the lack of whistleblowers in the FBI and DOJ among the numbers of people not in the top layer of political appointee management circles.

That none of the career officials tasked with implementing the hoax spoke up at the time bespeaks a rot in the organizational culture that will not be corrected by mere changes in top level personnel. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


24 posted on 05/27/2019 4:43:43 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Barr to Trump: We're over the target.

25 posted on 05/27/2019 4:48:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: a little elbow grease
Director of National Intelligence and the heads of the independent intelligence agencies.

We don't have 4th, 5th and 6th branches of government. Those "independent" agencies are under the command of the Executive Branch, i.e. President Trump is the Commander in Chief.

As such, he can order each and every employee of those said agencies to grab some rubber gloves and a hefty bag and spend the rest of their careers picking up the poo the bums drop on the sidewalks of our deteriorating cities. It would probably be a better use of our taxpayer money.

26 posted on 05/27/2019 4:50:51 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (“Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts.”)
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To: a little elbow grease

Birnham Wood comes to Dunsinane for Brennan


27 posted on 05/27/2019 4:51:09 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: a little elbow grease
What Brennan really said....

"I am so scr****."

28 posted on 05/27/2019 4:53:49 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: American in Israel

Brilliant :)!


29 posted on 05/27/2019 4:54:27 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: a little elbow grease

Like Brennan, a lot of criminals don’t expect to be caught. tick-tick-tick...


30 posted on 05/27/2019 4:56:49 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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"Trump is timing Brennan's moment of truth/trial/execution until after 2020 when he (POTUS) has max power and nothing to lose."

Geez I hope not.

jailing all these criminals should happen IMMEDIATELY and not for political gain

Remember what they did to the Kennedy's when they got too close to exposing them.

31 posted on 05/27/2019 5:00:55 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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THIS JUST IN FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES:

Newly Declassified Doc Proves Barr Right
EXPOSED Fake Russian Brennan Spy and Italy’s Role in Spying
CITIZEN FREE PRESS: Italy flips on Brennan, fires 6 Intelligence directors

Members of Italian intelligence were approached by Hillary Clinton, the Obama Administration, and the Deep State in order to frame trump by PLANTING EVIDENCE on American servers to force Trump to step down from office.

(hat tip bagster—Neon Revolt article)..... members of Italian intelligence found a target in a Rome-based Republican-sympathizer who had two servers for his company, Westland Securities, located in America. One was in Washington State, and the other in West Virginia.

The plan was for Italian Intelligence to hack into these servers, plant classified emails from Hillary’s servers inside these servers on American soil, and then alert the FBI.

The FBI would then raid these locations, “discover” these e-mails, investigate, link these servers to Trump… And then force Trump to resign.

And if the Italian Intelligence actually has ACTUAL classified e-mails from Hillary Clinton, that’s another crime in-and-of itself.


32 posted on 05/27/2019 5:02:42 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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OK, Here’s the real reason.

CIA Director under President Obama, John Brennan Voted Communist in 1976, Then Entered CIA in 1980

Eric Zuesse
March 31, 2018

Barack Obama’s CIA chief, John Brennan, told the Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus, on 15 September 2016, in Washington DC, that when he had applied in 1980 to join the CIA, he admitted to them that in the 1976 Presidential election, when Jimmy Carter was running against Gerald Ford, Brennan had voted instead for the candidate of the U.S. Communist Party, Gus Hall, and that he was then greatly relieved to find that this information didn’t cause rejection of his CIA-application.

This had happened 11 years before the 1991 end of the Cold War...”

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/03/31/john-brennan-voted-communist-in-1976-then-entered-cia-in-1980/

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“During the Cold War the CPUSA [Communist Party, USA] had a parallel underground structure, and a small number of people spied for Moscow.

Until the 1980s the party was receiving substantial amounts of Soviet funding, says Klehr, money that the FBI knew about and tracked.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26126325


33 posted on 05/27/2019 5:04:26 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! New Updates on Dem-Russia collusion via Ukraine ! Click ETL)
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To: a little elbow grease

Notice Brennan says “MR Trump” and not President Trump.


34 posted on 05/27/2019 5:11:31 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: a little elbow grease

Brennan=stuck pig


35 posted on 05/27/2019 5:12:15 AM PDT by madison10
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To: a little elbow grease

Yeeesh, John, mellow out - with good behavior, they might allow prayer rugs in Supermax.


36 posted on 05/27/2019 5:12:18 AM PDT by Stosh
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Russian spy Newsweek warned about was actually working with the Dems to help Hillary and hurt Trump!

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3752073/posts


37 posted on 05/27/2019 5:13:40 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! New Updates on Dem-Russia collusion via Ukraine ! Click ETL)
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To: a little elbow grease

What is Really outragous is the the Magic Negro tapped this America hating mooselimb to be his chief of the cia.


38 posted on 05/27/2019 5:14:13 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Liz

From the (always!!) excellent reporting your post offers, it appears that Brennan has suddenly become more than a little concerned about the PREDICATION of an investigation.
Now isn’t that just precious!!


39 posted on 05/27/2019 5:14:23 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: milagro

Brennan’s worried.......golly, I get tingly all over contemplating that.


40 posted on 05/27/2019 5:19:02 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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