Posted on 07/25/2017 6:11:43 AM PDT by Lorianne
Former CIA Director John Brennan said if President Trump orders special counsel Robert Mueller be fired "executive branch officials" have an "obligation" to "refuse to carry that out."
From Zero Hedge:
"I think it's the obligation of some executive branch officials to refuse to carry that out. I would just hope that this is not going to be a partisan issue. That Republicans, Democrats are going to see that the future of this government is at stake and something needs to be done for the good of the future," Brennan told CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the Aspen Security Forum, effectively calling for a coup against the president should Trump give the order to fire Mueller.
Watch the exchange at 43:36:
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Brennan appeared alongside his former colleague, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and both men who served in the Obama administration, told Blitzer they have total confidence in Mueller. "Absolutely. It was an inspired choice- they don't come any better, " Brennan said adding that "If Mueller is fired, I hope our elected reps will stand up and say enough is enough." Some have responded with questions where Brennan's devotion to the Constitution was in the aftermath of the events in Benghazi.
Falling back on his neocon roots, James Clapper, who has waged a long-running vendetta with Trump, once again warned about Russian interference in US affairs. When asked about the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort with a Russian lawyer and others, he responded: "I'm an old school, Cold War warrior and all that - so I have, there's truth in advertising, great suspicions about the Russians and what they do. A lot of this to me had kind of the standard textbook tradecraft long deployed by Russians. It would have been a really good idea maybe to have vetted whoever they were meeting with."
Clapper was also asked about Trump's comparison of the intelligence community to Nazi Germany. Clapper said he called the President-elect nine days before he left the Obama administration saying he "couldn't let that reference pass" and it was an insult to him, CIA Director John Brennan and the workforce. "That was a terrible, insulting affront, not just to me or John, we get paid the big bucks, but I'm talking about the rank and file, men and women, patriots and intelligence community -- that was completely inappropriate and over the top - I had to do something about it."
And so he did: on the call Clapper said Trump asked him to "to put out a statement rebutting the contents of the dossier which I couldn't and wouldn't do. It was kind of transactional" referring to a dossier that alleged ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. It was not clear if he wouldn't and couldn't do it because the contents were legitimate, in his view, or because the dossier is what started the whole "Russian collusion" narrative in the first place. Curiously, Clapper saw it as a favor to Trump not to issue a statement: Clapper was asked by Blitzer why he didn't put out a statement replying: "The whole point of the dossier by the way was we felt an obligation to warn him to alert him to the fact it was out there. That was the whole point."
It was not clear if James Comey, whose subsequent leak to the NYT led to the appointment of Mueller, would have applied the same reasoning when asked by Trump to rebut the dossier's contents. For the record, John Brennan "was" an admitted communist who said he "froze" while applying for the CIA after being asked during a polygraph test if he had ever worked with or for a group "dedicated to overthrowing the United States."
He answered truthfully that he had.
That apparently wasn't enough to disqualify him from joining the CIA, and Obama chose him in 2013 to head the agency during his presidency.
Now, once again, he's dedicating himself to overthrowing our democratically elected president and is using his deep state connections to make it a reality.
Trump should absolutely fire Robert Mueller and have Comey, Brennan, Clapper and Mueller investigated for trying to foment an insurrection.
BRENNAN IS A TRAITOR..........................
The Deep State Coup Trap. McCain sent an aide to the UK to pick up the first hard copy of the bogus Dirty Dossier. McCain hand-delivered it to Comey. Then Comey requested the private meeting with Trump to discuss the Dirty Dossier on Jan 6th. The fact of the meeting and the existence of the DD was then leaked by Comey to the NYT, putting the entire Deep State Coup Trap into motion. (And BTW, this is why Trump thought one-on-one meetings with the FBI director were SOP: the first was at Comey's request.)
Time for a men in black visit
Brennan is a MUSLIM.
He screwed up Iraq by INSTALLING SHARIA LAW! (AND we still wonder why that mess never cleared up????????)
He’s an ENEMY AGENT OF INFLUENCE—get RID of him.
Getting very closed for the time we break those bonds of tyranny. That tree of liberty is looking a bit parched.
Brennan froze during the test because he is a Muslim. He has dedicated himself to and owes allegiance to Allah - not the US.
Send him to Gitmo, torture him until he gives up the names of the thousand other moles in the CIA and upper levels of government.
Ain’t no “crypto” here.
I should have added - once he has given up the names give him the William Colby treatment.
Brennan voted Communist in 1976 and then joined the intel community in 1980. I simply could not believe that he would be approved for employment until I recalled that Jimmy Carter was President and Stansfield Turner was his CIA director. Turner’s policies did much to eliminate the agent on the ground (humint) and the reliance of technology (sigint).
The CIA under Carter was complicit in one of the great blunders of CIA history when he supported the return of Khomeini to Iran and the ouster of the Shah. Carter was a blunder; Turner a blunder; Iran a blunder; and it is likely that Brennan was the biggest blunder of them all.
These agencies need to be purged but then what now you’ve got a bunch of ex-spooks out there. This is a colossal mess
Session when are you going to do your job?
With each passing day, it becomes more clear that Sessions, unknowingly screwed his boss over. It’s not for Trump to fire the guy, let someone else do that.
The special counsel should never have been formed.
john al brennan is a seditionist and should be arrested today.
I’m no fan of Brennan but Sharia Law installed itself after Saddam was gone.
Iraq is a Shiite majority country and they wanted Sharia law. It was the first thing they asked for … demanded. They were rioting in the streets for Sharia Law. The few secularist fled the country. Most of the people available to run things after de-Bathification (Sunnis) were Shiite muslims, many of them backed by Iran.
I wouldn’t pin all that on Brennan et al. We should not have been in the middle of that Sunni/Shia mess to begin with, much less telling them how to run their own damn country.
Brennan: Enemy islamist.
Muslim former CIA directors suck.
Just like what JFK faced after the CIA had trained thousands of Cubans to re-take Cuba. What to do with thousands of trained killers? Solution: Bay of Pigs. Invade Cuba and then pull all support.
STFU you Muslim bast’d.
There’s a reason you are FORMER.
Traitorous lying cowards
Brennan shows his true colors: Commie red and Demonrat blue.
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