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To: maggief

well well well, there ya go

Looks like I don’t need to book a room at the Holiday Inn Express after all ...

John Brennan, passport raider and possible cleaner, is one of the most dangerous men serving obama (if that is who he really serves)

Mitt needs to get rid of him asap


39 posted on 10/26/2012 5:30:40 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: silverleaf

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-veteran-john-brennan-has-transformed-us-counterterrorism-policy/2012/10/24/318b8eec-1c7c-11e2-ad90-ba5920e56eb3_story.html

(October 24, 2012)

A CIA veteran transforms U.S. counterterrorism policy

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Four years ago, Brennan felt compelled to withdraw from consideration as President Obama’s first CIA director because of what he regarded as unfair criticism of his role in counterterrorism practices as an intelligence official during the George W. Bush administration. Instead, he stepped into a job in the Obama administration with greater responsibility and influence.

Brennan is leading efforts to curtail the CIA’s primary responsibility for targeted killings. Over opposition from the agency, he has argued that it should focus on intelligence activities and leave lethal action to its more traditional home in the military, where the law requires greater transparency. Still, during Brennan’s tenure, the CIA has carried out hundreds of drone strikes in Pakistan and opened a new base for armed drones in the Arabian Peninsula.

Although he insists that all agencies have the opportunity to weigh in on decisions, making differing perspectives available to the Oval Office, Brennan wields enormous power in shaping decisions on “kill” lists and the allocation of armed drones, the war’s signature weapon.


41 posted on 10/26/2012 5:38:39 AM PDT by maggief
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