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In A Healthy ‘Democracy,’ John Brennan Would Already Be In Prison
The Federalist ^
| 05/16/2023
| David Harsanyi
Posted on 05/16/2023 8:32:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The former CIA director should have been driven into exile years ago.
The just-released Durham report confirmed that the FBI not only failed to corroborate the Steele dossier, Hillary Clinton’s oppo-doc against Donald Trump, but it regularly ignored existing, sometimes dispositive, evidence to keep the investigation alive. Some officials were credulous. Others were devious. But no one “stole” our democracy — other than perhaps intelligence officials and the journalists who helped feed the collective hysteria over Russia.
John Brennan, Hamas-loving authoritarian and partisan propagandist, almost surely knew it was a con from the start. Yet he spent four years on television sounding like a deranged subreddit commenter. Even after privately admitting he knew there was no collusion, Brennan kept lying and using his credentials to mislead the public.
From Durham’s report:
CIA Director John Brennan and Deputy Director David Cohen were interviewed by the Office and were asked about their knowledge of any actual evidence of members of the Trump campaign conspiring or colluding with Russian officials. When Brennan was provided with an overview of the origins of the Attorney General’s Review after Special Counsel Mueller finding a lack of evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian authorities, Brennan offered that “they found no conspiracy.”
As Durham points out, even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report, and after Brennan admitted no one found a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, the former head of the CIA went on with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, another all-star election “denier,” and claimed that he “suspected there was more” to collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin than Mueller had let on.
Did I mention this was the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency?
Brennan must have been relying on that same gut instinct that led him to sign a letter asserting that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop scoop, a journalistic effort with more corroboration than virtually anything connected to Trump’s alleged “collusion,” had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The House Judiciary Committee recently uncovered a Oct. 19, 2020, email from CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who was working with the Biden campaign to concoct “a talking point” to “push back on Trump” during the final presidential debates, asking Brennan to sign on to the “disinformation” letter. “Ok, Michael, add my name to the list. Good initiative. Thanks for asking me to sign on,” was Brennan’s reply.
That’s all it takes for the former CIA director, a man who was given immense unchecked power — a man who oversaw secret kill lists and was the driving force behind drone strikes on civilians (including an American citizen) — to sign a letter he knew would obstruct the workings of “democracy” and the free press.
This is a man who still has access to classified documents. You might remember all the hand-wringing over broken norms when Trump allegedly barred intelligence agencies from sharing classified information with Brennan. The New York Times even gave him a column to argue that Trump’s claims of “no collusion” were “why the president revoked my security clearance,” which, again, he almost certainly knew was a lie.
Of course, Brennan should have been denied access to any classified material and driven into exile after he was caught overseeing an operation of illegal spying on staffers in the Senate. CIA officials broke into Senate computer files and viewed emails and drafts of a report on torture. All of it was illegal. Brennan covered up the agency’s actions (also illegal), blamed the Senate, and pushed to fire at least one staffer who was tasked with investigating his agency.
All this happened when the tan-suited Obama was in charge, so most people probably missed it.
It wasn’t until the CIA’s inspector general confirmed this wrongdoing that Brennan began negotiating with the lily-livered senators about owning up to the spying. Even then, Brennan was lying. When asked about the CIA hacking into Senate computers at an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations, Brennan responded by saying, “Nothing could be further from the truth.” Nothing? “I mean, we wouldn’t do that,” he went on. “I mean, that’s just beyond the — you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do.” Brennan went on to say: “Let me assure you the CIA was in no way spying on [the committee] or the Senate.”
The Obama administration backed Brennan fully, and the Senate moved on. No one put him under oath and grilled him about the specifics. As with the FBI interference in the 2016 election, not one person was held accountable for domestic spying, much less fired.
Not that my voices matters very much, but this is probably the first time in 20 years of writing — and I’ve written thousands of columns and millions of published words — that I’ve wondered why a public official isn’t in prison. Brennan has abused his position, power, and access with impunity for years. He deserves a bright orange jumpsuit. Yet we also all know he’ll never be held accountable either. So, at the very least, let’s hope he can be disgraced.
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books—the most recent, Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bleedingheartattack; brennan; cia; collusionhoax; crossfirehurricane; hamas; johnbrennan; torture
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To: SeekAndFind
Better yet, he should be hanged for treason!
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posted on
05/16/2023 8:34:15 AM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: No name given
In A Healthy ‘Democracy,’ 80% of the Demonic Party would be in prison for treason...
To: SeekAndFind
In a “healthy democracy” and a true representative republic, every single person involved with the “Russia Hoax” (as well as the Clinton Foundation, Clinton Foundation, Clinton mail server, and all the other scandals), would be in jail.
This also includes Robert Mueller and all of his associates for the 32 million dollar sham that was the Mueller report, that the Durham report completely invalidated.
“Someone has to go to prison, Ben . . .”
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posted on
05/16/2023 8:48:07 AM PDT
by
MCSETots
To: SeekAndFind
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There was nothing, of course, and they knew it. They even ordered a stop to assessment within - because it said it was all BS.
But what did they do?
The pressured Trump to sit for Interviews with the FBi.
They wanted that Felony for lying in a case that should’ve never been opened!
They wanted to Imprison him.
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posted on
05/16/2023 8:52:02 AM PDT
by
AnthonySoprano
(Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
To: No name given
Prison huh, they could not even revoke this treasonous prick’s security clearance years after he was out of office
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posted on
05/16/2023 8:52:49 AM PDT
by
gibsonguy
To: SeekAndFind
There are DOZENS of Government COUP PLOTTERS that MUST BE PUT INTO PRISON! MUST!! NOW!!
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posted on
05/16/2023 8:52:50 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: gibsonguy
We ALL need to rally around Trump!!
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posted on
05/16/2023 8:55:08 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: No name given
Hanging is much too merciful.
Brennen needs to be strapped to a conveyer belt and gently pushed into Saddam Hussein’s human shredder machine.
Afterwards, throw Lizard Cheney and Kitzinger into it as well. /spit
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posted on
05/16/2023 9:06:35 AM PDT
by
Flavious_Maximus
(Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
To: No name given
A blindfold and a cigarette...
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posted on
05/16/2023 9:07:37 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: SeekAndFind
He deserves a bright orange jumpsuit. Yet we also all know he’ll never be held accountable either. Because WE are the (neo) Marxists now. We live in an untouchable security state. We promote a bizarre post-modern ideology across the globe and cause chaos in our own nation and around the world to promote our government's power.
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posted on
05/16/2023 9:09:10 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: PGR88
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posted on
05/16/2023 9:17:28 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SeekAndFind
And yet, some Republicans are still saying the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections were Trump failures. Trump was attacked constantly both within his own party and without. He was accused of collusion and placed under suspicion—all lies. The media constantly misrepresented and distorted nearly everything he said. It’s no wonder to me at all that many Americans voted to get the perceived evil orange man out of office, because those voters were fed a constant barrage of propaganda.
As for DeSantis, he SHOULD be supporting Trump 100%. Trump was robbed of his second term. Those elections were not Trump losses so much as Deep State propaganda successes. Have no doubt that DeSantis will face all the same if not worse.
People claim Trump has no chance, but Trump has a very loyal, large Republican base and a track record of fighting the swamp in spite of nearly overwhelming odds.
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posted on
05/16/2023 9:26:28 AM PDT
by
CitizenUSA
(Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
To: SeekAndFind
“In 1996, he was CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, when the Khobar Towers bombing killed 19 U.S. servicemen. In 1999, he was appointed chief of staff to George Tenet, then-Director of the CIA.”
So when Brennan was in Saudi Arabia, he would have seen the visa requests for the 19 hijackers come across his desk, and failed to stop them. He also failed to stop the attacks in Kenya and the attack on our warship. One has to think, did he help the terrorist?
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posted on
05/16/2023 9:27:02 AM PDT
by
realcleanguy
(quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
To: No name given
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posted on
05/16/2023 9:28:39 AM PDT
by
Nifster
( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
To: Flavious_Maximus
On very slow speed and over time.
I’m not into torture but the death penalty exists for a reason, but is rendered ineffective when not utilized properly.
These people most certainly have committed treason. Fidelity to the law regarding punishment for treason needs to be rigorously utilized. But first, fire treasonous judges.
To: SeekAndFind
Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Associated organizations
Kissinger Associates has had strategic alliances with several firms, including:
APCO Worldwide, (October 12, 2004).
The Blackstone Group, an investment and advisory firm.
Hakluyt & Company, a strategic intelligence and advisory firm.
Covington & Burling, international law firm (2003).
Prominent staff
L. Paul Bremer, former managing director and former Iraq Director of Reconstruction.
Nelson Cunningham, political advisor and managing partner at Kissinger McLarty.
Lawrence Eagleburger, former U.S. Secretary of State.
Richard W. Fisher,[13] President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Timothy F. Geithner, former U.S. Secretary of Treasury.
Jami Miscik, former president and vice chairman, former CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence.
Joshua Cooper Ramo, former Managing Director, former senior editor of Time Magazine.
Bill Richardson, former senior managing director, former U.S diplomat, past Governor of New Mexico, past Energy Secretary, past UN Ambassador.
J. Stapleton Roy, vice-chairman and former senior U.S. diplomat.
Brent Scowcroft, former vice-chairman and former U.S. National Security Advisor.
>>>>>John O. Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, world affairs consultant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissinger_Associates#References
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posted on
05/16/2023 9:56:18 AM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: No name given
It would be more appropriate for him to be guillotined.
The American and French revolutions although very different strongly rejected the concept of nobility. Today we live in an aristocracy and oligarchy where the politically connected are essentially the new nobility and above the law. in fact, the entire judicial system can commit due process crimes with impunity without suffering any serious consequences.
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posted on
05/16/2023 10:06:15 AM PDT
by
grumpygresh
(Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
To: Ann Archy
That is the correct response : )
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posted on
05/16/2023 10:21:28 AM PDT
by
vivenne
To: CitizenUSA
“People claim Trump has no chance, but Trump has a very loyal, large Republican base and a track record of fighting the swamp in spite of nearly overwhelming odds.”
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I would crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump again, and as long as both he and I survive, I will proudly do so twice more. The people that perpetrated not just the Russia hoax, but also who rigged the 2020 election (many of whom are the same people), all deserve to be in prison or hung for treason.
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posted on
05/16/2023 10:24:33 AM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
(“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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