Why lying ex-CIA head John Brennan belongs in – Latest News
Former CIA Director John Brennan is one of essentially the most contemptible and shady people in public life. Few have abused their place, energy and entry with such impunity and hubris.
So it was a pleasure to learn stories that the FBI has launched a felony investigation into Brennan, together with former FBI Director James Comey, for attainable wrongdoing associated to the Trump campaign-Russia collusion probe, together with making false statements to Congress.
No, I’m not underneath the impression Brennan will finish up in jail, the place he doubtless belongs, and even see an indictment.
The statute of limitations has largely sundown.
And even when it hadn’t, the notion there might be any reckoning is distant.
My modest hope is that maybe a higher accounting of his corruption for the historic report will destroy Brennan’s status without end, which shouldn’t be a heavy carry.
Last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe launched a report on the origins of the Intelligence Community Assessment that concluded Russia had interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump.
It was more or much less as one might need anticipated.
One of the issues we discovered, nonetheless, was that Brennan claimed in 2017 testimony earlier than Congress that the Steele Dossier, an oppo doc paid for by Hillary Clinton and Democrats, wasn’t “in any way” used as a foundation for the ICA.
In a 2023 House interview, Brennan claimed the “CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele Dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment.”
The drawback is that newly declassified CIA emails allegedly show Brennan not solely repeatedly urgent for insertion of the Steele Dossier’s claims, however doing it over the objections of others.
In one 2016 e-mail, Brennan allegedly disregarded warnings from his deputy that the file would undermine “the credibility of the entire paper.”
When two CIA mission middle leaders chargeable for Russia challenged him about integrating a poorly constructed partisan doc into the ICA, Brennan overruled them, insisting: “My bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.”
Now, there may be at all times a probability that Ratcliffe’s report is skewed to make Brennan’s emails look more incriminating than they had been.
We’ll need to see.
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We already know that Brennan has for years lied about having insider information of an unprecedented seditious felony conspiracy towards the United States.
When Robert Mueller’s investigation was unable to tug collectively a single indictment associated to “collusion,” Brennan shrugged it off by saying that he might have “received bad information.”
He hadn’t.
“Trump is scared of me because I know too much about Russia’s election meddling,” Brennan would inform the press.
When Special Counsel John Durham launched his report on origins of the FBI’s investigation of the “collusion” investigation, we discovered that Brennan, regardless of spinning unhinged conspiratorial rants nightly on cable tv, knew there was no there there.
Indeed, Durham reported that Brennan had admitted to investigators that there had been “no conspiracy.”
Yet, as Durham identified, solely days later, the previous CIA director was on MSNBC‘s “Morning Joe” contending the other, utilizing his former place to counsel there was nonetheless a lot to be divulged.
To perceive what little regard Brennan had for fact or place, recall a 2020 e-mail uncovered by the House Judiciary Committee.
In it, former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who was working with the Biden marketing campaign to concoct “a talking point” to “push back on Trump” during the ultimate presidential debates, requested Brennan to signal on to the notorious “disinformation” letter that claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop computer was a Russian plant.
“OK, Michael, add my name to the list. Good initiative. Thanks for asking me to sign on,” Brennan replied.
That’s all it took for the previous director of the CIA to signal his title onto a letter that might be the ostensive purpose for a main story implicating a presidential candidate with corruption to be censored by just about each legacy media outlet and main social media platform.
One hopes his legacy will now be irreparably tarnished.
David Harsanyi is a senior author on the Washington Examiner. Twitter @davidharsanyi
