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Has The Head of the CIA Just Leaked Classified Information to the Press?
AgainstCronyCapitalism.org ^ | December 17, 2016 | Hunter Lewis

Posted on 12/17/2016 8:09:19 PM PST by Rockitz

It appears clear enough that he has not only leaked classified information. He has done so for partisan political purposes. The US is now one step closer to a Banana Republic.

ACC has just run a story about how the FBI now reportedly agrees with the CIA that Russia tried to influence our election. We quoted the Daily Caller which said:

“The CIA has not issued any public statements, and all assertions are based on anonymous leaks.”

This may be technically true, but is misleading. We now know pretty clearly who has been leaking from the CIA.

NPR reported yesterday that John Brennan, the head of the CIA, sent a written message to CIA staff members stating that the FBI now agreed with the CIA assertion of Russian interference in the election. NPR itself noted that Brennen knew perfectly well that a general message to employees would be leaked. In effect, he was asking the CIA staff to leak it. So here we have an instance of the head of the CIA leaking conclusions from a classified report although in a roundabout way.

It really was bad enough for the secretary of state and her staff to treat classified information as she did. Has no one in Washington learned anything from this? And what does it tell us that the leaker is the head of the CIA, where secrecy is supposed to be greatest?

When the CIA was founded after WW2, some commentators warned that having a super secret spy agency inside our government was not a good idea, that it might eventually try to influence or even subvert our democracy. Rumors of the CIA working with the Mafia and the like in the past were just rumors. But there now seems no doubt that the agency has leaked classified information knowing that it will be used for a highly partisan political purpose, to undermine the legitimacy of the Trump election.

I don’t know how others will react to this, but I find it more than troubling that the head of the CIA could in this way inject himself into domestic politics.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: cia; election; fbi; media; russia
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To: Rockitz

14 hours ago - CIA’s “mop up man” Ken Dilanian is the NBC ‘reporter’ used to channel claim about president Putin + US election https://t.co/GOci4EWwdv Source by WikiLeaks | India’s & World ... Source by WikiLeaks


21 posted on 12/17/2016 9:40:35 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's way past time to drain the 'not so intelligent' swamp... President Trump Disband the CIA!!!)
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To: Rockitz

Thanks to Travis Mcgee

22 posted on 12/17/2016 9:44:07 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's way past time to drain the 'not so intelligent' swamp... President Trump Disband the CIA!!!)
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To: Rockitz

Go to this Google search: Does the CIA have people posing as journalists?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Does+the+CIA+have+people+posing+as+journalists%3F&rlz=1CAACAO_enUS642US643&oq=Does+the+CIA+have+people+posing+as+journalists%3F&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


23 posted on 12/17/2016 9:46:50 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's way past time to drain the 'not so intelligent' swamp... President Trump Disband the CIA!!!)
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To: Vic S
would of

would have

24 posted on 12/17/2016 9:47:37 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: All

US Govt Just Legalized Operation Mockingbird — FBI Can Now impersonate journalists.

thefreethoughtproject.com › Government Surveillance
Sep 22, 2016 - FBI agents conducting undercover investigations have now been given the green light to impersonate journalists, the Justice Department determined last week — effectively legalizing the government’s most notorious propaganda program, Operation Mockingbird.

thefreethoughtproject.com/fbi-impersonate-media-mockingbird/


25 posted on 12/17/2016 9:52:54 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's way past time to drain the 'not so intelligent' swamp... President Trump Disband the CIA!!!)
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To: Rockitz
" Any promotions over the last 8 years must be carefully scrutinized to weed out those promoted for political reasons."

Might be necessary to examine all lateral transfers as well.

26 posted on 12/17/2016 9:57:26 PM PST by matthew fuller (Democrats have not been this apoplectic since Republican Lincoln emancipated THEIR slaves.)
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To: Rockitz

Drain the swamp!


27 posted on 12/17/2016 10:10:26 PM PST by Gritty (This wasn't a vote. It was an uprising. - Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Rockitz

Sorry, agents, hillary lost and you will not be collecting your checks.


28 posted on 12/17/2016 10:15:19 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Rockitz

Wiki-leaks seems to have Obama’s DC all wee-weed up.


29 posted on 12/17/2016 10:47:01 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: SatinDoll
We must alter our diplomatic relationship with Saudi Arabia. They are not our friends.We must alter our diplomatic relationship with Saudi Arabia. They are not our friends.

We have been pouring our wealth into their coffers since the formation of OPEC. Obama is an instrument of their hegemony over oil. Without it, they would all be just abysmally poor sand-eaters. The USA's resurgence as the energy providers of our own needs directly threatens to topple their dominance in world matters.

Obama's goal, and hence that of his cohorts, is to block our ability to: (1) provide for our own energy needs; (2) educate scientists, engineers, and statesmen to stabilize beneficial capitalism; (3) provide our own labor pool for it; and (4) undermine the Biblical principles interpreted by the Protestant Reformers upon which the system is built.

Every action arising from Obama's machine, funded by oil money, has been uniformly directed to deconstruct the American system of republican democracy. His unique blend of Marxist Islamism, both using the sword to futher their goals, will persist until the idea of the Golden Rule--do unto others as you would be done unto--is utterly quenched,

Then their union will be dissolved into Satanism, which will then prevail.

We need to choose leaders to help us reject and stamp out each of these liberty-destroying ploys.

30 posted on 12/17/2016 11:06:19 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Rockitz

FBI should jail head of CIA and investigate their leakers. The CIA should in no way operate on Us politics and spy or subvert domestic politics. That is not their business.


31 posted on 12/18/2016 1:57:18 AM PST by lavaroise (s)
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To: Grampa Dave

Can anyone post the cia flight 800 rendition of the airplane nose falling off and then it climb vertical? That was a ridiculous one.


32 posted on 12/18/2016 2:00:38 AM PST by lavaroise (s)
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To: Rockitz

John Brennan is muslim and Obama is a muslim...what else do you need to know about fake news...


33 posted on 12/18/2016 3:40:11 AM PST by Stayfree (LIBERALISM & STUPIDITY ARE BOTH INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASES OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER!)
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To: Stayfree

Domestically, Brennan and Obama USE
the CIA to protect child rapists and slavers,
to increase slavery of children and women worldwide
through ISIS,
and to murder witnesses in the USA
for the Clinton Foundation
and their own Islamic-terror interests.


34 posted on 12/18/2016 5:01:00 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Squantos; PeterPrinciple; Rightwing Conspiratr1

In republics, laws are made either directly or indirectly by its component members. In the US, that means the people and the states.

Since the states foolishly booted themselves from the senate in 1913, it was only a matter of time before progressives neutralized the House of Reps as well.

Today, ninety-nine percent of US lawmaking is done by exec branch agencies.

Therefore, the US is not a republic.


35 posted on 12/18/2016 6:39:59 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: lavaroise

Can anyone post the cia flight 800 rendition of the airplane nose falling off and then it climb vertical? That was a ridiculous one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eskcDKI5WGc


36 posted on 12/18/2016 7:52:24 AM PST by Grampa Dave (It's way past time to drain the 'not so intelligent' swamp... President Trump Disband the CIA!!!)
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To: Jacquerie

Disagree....have a nice weekend.


37 posted on 12/18/2016 7:58:47 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

Whereabouts in TX are you gonna go fishin? I might be able to help :)


38 posted on 12/18/2016 8:03:12 AM PST by txhurl (Chode: a word about taglines)
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To: txhurl

Panhandle area, NM, CO .... etc


39 posted on 12/18/2016 8:06:34 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

Oh.. think about checking out the Highland Lakes (centex Hill Country) chain sometime. Crystal clear waters, the 8 lakes are impounded Colorado River. The fish concentration isn’t as thick as a private, stocked pond but it makes you actually use your skills.

Although trout haven’t quite made their way down here, yet :)


40 posted on 12/18/2016 8:14:09 AM PST by txhurl (Chode: a word about taglines)
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