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Biden vs Trump on Who’s ‘Reckless’ Regarding US National Security
Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2021 | Humberto Fontova,

Posted on 02/13/2021 4:01:31 AM PST by Kaslin

“Biden says Trump should not receive intelligence briefings due to his 'erratic behavior'.. “You’ve called him an existential threat. You’ve called him dangerous. You’ve called him reckless,” CBS News' Norah O' Donnell said to Biden. "Yeah, I have. And I believe it," Biden responded….In 2018, President Trump stripped the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan, which ignited a firestorm of criticism that the president was punishing high-profile critics.” (NBC, Feb.5.)

Needless to add, NBC (and its mainstream media clones and cohorts in general) imply their support for Biden’s security concerns regarding Trump, but pooh-pooh Trump’s security concerns regarding Brennan.

Yet to observers, Brennan himself, as CIA chief during the Obama-Biden term, seemed the very definition of “dangerous” and “reckless” regarding U.S. national security. See what you think: 

Cuba is not a threat to the United States…They don’t implicate our national security in any wayThe government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding six-month period; and the government of Cuba has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.” (President Obama after meeting with Raul Castro in Panama and recommending that Stalinist Cuba be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, April 14th, 2015.).

Presumably the head of the CIA at the time, John Brennan, who had been a close national security advisor to Barack Obama since his 2008 campaign, signed off on (and maybe even encouraged) the Obama-Biden decision to whitewash and legitimize the Castro-Family-Crime-Syndicate. Never mind that this whitewash required taking one of modern history’s most infamous liars at his word. 

But Brennan’s boundless trust in the well-wishes of the regime whose historic obsession was the destruction of his nation was hardly quenched. Because: 

“(In Aug. 2015) an unmarked U.S. government plane landed at an airstrip in Havana, carrying…John Brennan, the director of the C.I.A. Brennan was there to meet with Alejandro Castro-Espin (Raul Castro’s son, the KGB-trained head of Cuba’s counterintelligence service, who authored a book titled “U.S.-Empire of Terror”) and discuss increasing intelligence cooperation between the two countriesBrennan considered Cuba’s spy agencies the most capable in Latin America, and hoped to work with them against drug cartels and terrorist networks.”

Brennan definitely had a point. Thanks to the CIA’s historic penchant for hiring and promoting people like John Brennan, Castro’s DGI and DI (KGB-founded and mentored intelligence services) have historically run rings around the CIA, while guffawing.  

But it gets even "better":

“Brennan’s talks with Alejandro Castro took place at a discreet government guest house, where a day of formal negotiations was followed by a banquet featuring a spit-roasted pig. U.S. officials said that, during the talks, Cuban leaders made it clear that they respected the C.I.A.”

I bet! But “respect” probably isn’t the proper word—unless The Pink Panther “respects” inspector Clouseau and The Roadrunner “respects” Wile E. Coyote.” The word “appreciate” fits much better. Perhaps these (thoroughly-documented) historic items will help us understand this unbounded appreciation:

In 1987, Cuban intelligence officer Florentino Aspillaga defected in Prague and revealed that every single Cuban agent (four dozen of them) the CIA had recruited to spy on the Castro regime since 1962 was a double agent controlled personally by Fidel Castro. Now backtracking a few years:

“We’ve infiltrated Castro’s guerrilla group in the Sierra Mountains. The Castro brothers and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara have no affiliations with any Communists whatsoever.” (Havana CIA station Chief Jim Noel, sneering in typical CIA, Ivy league blue blood manner at tacky warnings from Cuban “McCarthyite deplorables” in Nov. 1958.)

(In fact all three of these hardcore Stalinists poised to take over Cuba had a KGB-handler named Nikolai Leonov since 1954!)

Not that you’d guess any of this from the mainstream media, but only a few weeks before Obama’s (and presumably Brennan’s) giddy acceptance of Castro’s promise of good behavior (“cross my heart and hope to die!”), Castro got caught red-handed supplying Chinese-made arms to the Western hemisphere’s oldest, biggest and most murderous terror-group: Colombia’s FARC. The terror-death toll from these Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) exceeds 200,000, and includes more U.S. citizens than were murdered by ISIS.

So maybe it was a mere coincidence that the very week Obama (with presumably Brennan’s support) planned to remove Cuba as a terror-sponsor, the mainstream media (especially CNN) blacked-out any mention of this blatant terror-sponsorship by Cuba in our own backyard.

You see, amigos: In February 2015, Colombian authorities found 99 missile heads, 100 tons of gunpowder, 2.6 million detonators, and over 3,000 artillery shells hidden under rice sacks in a ship bound from Red China to Cuba that docked in the port of Cartagena, Colombia.

Most Cuba-watchers immediately guessed what was up. And crackerjack Colombian (NOT CNN or New York Times, heaven forbid!) reporters quickly investigated and exposed the Castro-regime’s terror-sponsoring scheme. In brief:

*The arms were from a Chinese manufacturer named Norinco and the recipient was a Cuban company named Tecnoimport.

*But the ship stopped in the Colombian ports of Cartagena and Barranquilla (where the FARC is based.)

*Colombia’s crackerjack newspaper El Espectador also reported that many Norinco-manufactured arms had already been captured from FARC guerrillas over the past 10 years. This proliferation of Cuba-smuggled Chinese arms to the terrorist FARC got so bad that in 2007-08 the Colombian authorities sent a diplomatic protest note to the Chinese. 

This awkward information at such an awkward time, needless to say, might have hampered Obama’s plan (with presumably Brennan’s support) to cleanse the Castro regime from any taint of terror-sponsorship—at least for people with half-a-brain. 

But shouldn’t the head of (probably) the world’s largest and most lavishly–funded intelligence agency (the CIA) have been aware of this Cuban terror-sponsorship on our very doorstep? So how could he possibly sign-off on Obama’s howler that “the government of Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding six-month period?”  

Two years earlier (with John Brennan the recently appointed CIA director by Obama) Panamanian authorities discovered unregistered Russian missile parts and actual MiG jets hidden in a North Korean ship that had just left terror-sponsoring Cuba and was bound for terror-sponsoring North Korea through the Panama Canal. All the Russian-made contraband was hidden under sacks of Cuban sugar. An investigation by a U.N. panel (no less!) concluded that the Cuban smuggling was a blatant violation of international sanctions.) 

Shouldn’t a CIA director have been aware of this illegal, blatant and repeated smuggling of arms from one terror-sponsor to another in our own backyard? 

Of course. But looking the other way was very convenient for de-classifying the blatantly guilty party from the list of terror-sponsors--a condition Castro demanded before he would deign to allow Obama to legitimize and enrich his regime. The Castros, you see, knew full well how Obama desperately craved the “opening to Cuba” for his “legacy.”

So they had a ball! They played him like a fiddle, humiliating his “negotiators’ (mostly Pajama-Boy Ben Rhodes) at every turn and absolutely mercilessly, while snickering. 

Apparently Brennan’s Cuba trip had results. To wit: 

“Cuba and the United States signed an agreement to cooperate in the fight against terrorism and drug traffickingA delegation of Cuban government national security officials recently toured the Pentagon’s counter-drug center in Key West (in May, 2016)— a first, signaling a nascent effort in U.S.-Cuban security cooperation. They got a briefing on the work that has been described as Southcom’s command center in the war on drugs.”

Result of this Brennan-encouraged “cooperation?” 

“Panamanian authorities on Saturday (May, 18, 2019) intercepted 46 suitcases containing an estimated $90 million in illegal drugs on a cargo ship that arrived from a Cuban port and was en Biden Vs Trump route to Istanbul, Turkey. The suitcases contained 1,517 packages of drugs hidden in a container declared as containing charcoal.”

Needless to add: no mainstream U.S. media portal (not even Fox!) bothered reporting on this blockbuster embarrassment to the Obama/Brennan “national security” team, some of which will probably soon be back deciding who our enemies are.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cuba; foreignpolicy; johnbrennan; presidenttrump; residentbiden; trump

1 posted on 02/13/2021 4:01:31 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Biden’s a traitor. Bought and paid for by the Chicoms. When are we gonna say enough and hang these pigs?


2 posted on 02/13/2021 4:18:26 AM PST by HYPOCRACY
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To: HYPOCRACY
Pres. Trump: "Do Not Try Us" [click for megacomfy]



compare with: CCP's, MI-6's, the Vatican's and DNC’s pedophilicPseudoPOTUS


Psychotic pedophilic Pseudopotus: "he is erratic" ROTFLOL

3 posted on 02/13/2021 4:38:06 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Kaslin; wita

Another example again of letting the demonkkkraps frame the issue and control the narrative. In addition, the title is misleading, “Biden vs Trump on Who’s ‘Reckless’ Regarding US National Security” - my expectation was to see examples of Biden’s recklessness - none. It was all about why Trump had a basis to remove Brennan’s security briefing.

The issue is this - Like all Trump-haters in the demonkkkrap party, China-compromised Buyden alleges the former POTUS should be denied access to daily intelligence briefings. Buyden was not asked whether there should be any concerns about his own Chinese connections, or those of other China-compromised Trump-haters House (not so) intelligen(t) committee member Swellswell or Senator Feinstein. Demonkkkrap-friendly media continues to cover for Buyden by refusing to ask any serious questions and not challenge any of his ramblings.

The article would have been about 1 paragraph long since the media-propaganda reported nothing.


4 posted on 02/13/2021 4:39:23 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot ( )
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Trump should tell Biden to stick his “briefing” where the sun doesn’t shine. They are probably filled with lies and misinformation put together by China-loving aides


5 posted on 02/13/2021 4:49:11 AM PST by Russ (I )
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To: Russ

Russ - I agree, but of course that will be censored by the Thought-Police. The message will never get to Buyden.

I don’t know how much you encounter demonkkkraps, but when you do, it seems to be effective in any discussion with them, there is a disarming power in the using the word “Trump-hater” - like “Trump-hater Buyden”, or “Trump-hating media”, or even the person with whom you are talking...Psychologically has an undermining impact on them - it defines them as being irrational because of their visceral hatred. You don’t have to defend Trump, you turn the issue into their hatred for others is based on their hatred of Trump no matter what the issue is. The “discussion” won’t last very long, and they may end up hurling expletives toward you.


6 posted on 02/13/2021 5:02:56 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot ( )
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To: Kaslin

Biden has Dementia. He should not be in any major decision making role.


7 posted on 02/13/2021 6:43:18 AM PST by FreedBird (T)
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To: Kaslin

Who needs borders when there is razor wire and a standing army to protect the important people?


8 posted on 02/13/2021 6:43:33 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: FreedBird
Biden has Dementia. He should not be in any major decision making role.

IF!.....that's really Biden.

9 posted on 02/13/2021 6:44:43 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Trump won the "popular vote". Biden won the digital vote.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Will the real Joke Biden, please stand up.


10 posted on 02/13/2021 6:52:34 AM PST by FreedBird (T)
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To: Kaslin

Any one who thinks Biden isn’t an existential threat is a billionaire or an idiot check your bank account to see what one you are.


11 posted on 02/13/2021 9:01:05 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Unfortunately one of my two sisters has the disease so we walk on eggshells rather than disturb her triggerable sensibilities. What she doesn’t know won’t kill her and neither will we.

For the non relative, I definitely appreciate your approach.


12 posted on 02/14/2021 3:16:50 PM PST by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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