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yep he's a great guy-First link is from Red State not exactly a renowned source of journalism but the title is interesting. They lifted the quote from this.nope, Brenan was wrongHe's literally retaliating against his political opposition by using his position. Something that I can't remember ever being done by an American president. I can however give examples of authoritarian leaders doing it.Okay. But the only one trying to turn us into a shit hole like Venezuela right now is Donald Trump, by acting like a two bit dictator who unfairly punishes those who disagree with him.I didn't waste time reading the leftist agitprop.
I am a veteran, and I don't need some obozo appointee telling me some other obozo appointee is being treated unfairly, when I can see with my own eyes that Brennan is a leftist scumbag working to undermine a president that is doing some good things and fixing what that meat puppet faggot did.
As far as I'm concerned leftists are traitors. Benedict Arnold served us during the revolution honorably, until he stopped. Just like McLame or any other bed wetter. If you're working to promote regressive policy or you're a complicit with those who do so, you're working against the best interests of the country.
The best interest of the country is to do the opposite of what they're doing in shit holes like Venezuela. Which is flushing themselves down a toilet.
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That is not being patriotic, Pete.
Not quite sure how Trump is trying to turn us into a Venezuela, perhaps you could explain? Nevertheless, if that's what he's trying to do he's failing miserably.
John Brennanās CIA āOperated Like A Branch Office Of The Hillary Campaignā
Oh look here
John Brennan: Political Hack
Six months after the attacks on US personnel in Benghazi, Libya, several of the survivors flew to Washington, D.C., to attend a memorial service for those who died there. They expected to see old colleagues, to reminisce about their shared experiences, to mourn the passing of their friends. They did not expect to be handed new, legally unnecessary nondisclosure agreements.
Hereās how we reported it at the time:
On May 20, 2013, four of the CIA officers who had fought to repel the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi arrived at the grounds of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. [John āTigā] Tiegen, [Kris āTantoā] Paronto, [Mark] Geist, and āJackā had returned to Washington to honor two of the men who had fought and died in those attacks, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
Shortly before the service began, an agency representative approached the four and asked them for a moment of their time. They were led away from the public gathering space near the CIA museum through one office, then through another, until they finally arrived at a back room far removed from the quiet murmurings that preceded the ceremony.
When the door shut behind them, a CIA official handed each man a small packet of papers and with very little explanation asked them, one by one, to review and sign the documents. As the men began to read the papers theyād been handed it did not take long for them to understand what was happening. The documents were nondisclosure agreements, and several of the CIA officers quickly concluded that they were meant to send a message.
Geist, who was moving to a new job at the agency, says he had always assumed heād have to sign another NDA and didnāt think much of the request. His colleagues had another view.
āThat was a bunch of bullsā,ā says Paronto. āWe were pissed. We didnāt have anyone outside the agency there with usāno lawyers, no one. Thatās just not right.ā
The men quickly signed the papers, in part because they were already covered by existing NDAs and in part, they say, so that they wouldnāt be late for the ceremony. After the memorial service, the men stopped for drinks and remembered their fallen comrades in a less formal way. Paronto says it didnāt take long for the NDAs to come up.
āI remember Jack sitting thereāhe looks at us and says: āThat was pretty fād up, wasnāt it?ā ā
It was.
āIt was very odd, since I hadnāt signed one in six years and then had to sign two in a few months. And when I say āoddā I mean of course we were under āpressureā to sign,ā Paronto recalled
The American Spectatorās George Neumayr said that John Brennanās CIA āoperated like a branch office of the Hillary campaignā.
So a completely right wing internet "news" site's OP'ed. Used a quote from another completely right wing internet "news" site, in order to try to make a claim about the CIA being in Hilary's pocket? I would ask if you are serious but I'm guessing yes.
-Second link is more interesting. It tries to correlate the signing of an NDA to revoking a security clearance. False equivalence if I've ever seen one. It is funny though that you have missed the second paragraph.
Brennan is almost certainly right. The decision to revoke his clearances was petty and vindictive. The motivation for it was, indeed, political, as Trump effectively conceded in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. And it may well be the case that Trump hopes the move will obscure the truth about the controversy currently unsettling the White House.
In essence neither does anything about arguing against the premise of the OP and the second one seems to simply confirm it.
CIA director John Brennan lied to you and to the Senate. Fire him | Trevor Timm
As reports emerged Thursday that an internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agencyās inspector general found that the CIA āimproperlyā spied on US Senate staffers when researching the CIAās dark history of torture, it was hard to conclude anything but the obvious: John Brennan blatantly lied to the American public. Again.
He loved "torture" I thought you guys were against it...hmmmmmmmmmmmm
the left inconsistent, who knew?