"Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, a Barack Obama friend and protégé as well as a current paid contributor for NBC and MSNBC, has blasted President Donald Trump for congratulating President Vladimir Putin over his victory in recent Russian national elections. He said that the U.S. President is “afraid of the president of Russia” and that the Kremlin “may have something on him personally. The fact that he has had this fawning attitude toward Mr. Putin …continues to say to me that he does have something to fear and something very serious to fear.”"
It is an indication of how low we have sunk as a nation that a possible war criminal like Brennan can feel free to use his former official status as a bully pulpit to claim that someone is a foreign spy without any real pushback or objection from the talking heads and billionaire manipulators that unfortunately run our country. If Trump is actually being blackmailed, as Brennan implies, what evidence is there for that? One might reasonably conclude that Brennan and his associates are actually angry because Trump has had the temerity to try to improve relations with Russia." Giraldi
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I have known both Brennan and Giraldi for a long time. They are examples of the worst (Brennan) and the best (Giraldi) that the CIA has produced although I will remind that Giraldi started in the Army and was lured to Langley when already a well known and respected person in the intelligence community.
Brennan, at the beginning of his career was judged by CIA to be unsuited to be a field man and was made an analyst. I first knew him when I was Defense Attache in Jiddah and he was attached to Alan Fiers office. It was clear to me from the beginning that he was someone whom you should not trust or turn your back on.
Giraldi here lays out the case for Brennan's turpitude. Let Sessions act on this! Let him act! pl
I hope Sy Hersh is avoiding cars these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)
Posted by: Seamus Padraig | 28 March 2018 at 03:26 PM
"I don't see this as a battle between us and the Russians, though it's always prudent to take precautions. I see it as a battle between us and our ruling elites."
Exactly. But that also goes a long way towards explaining why those selfsame elites would see advantage in starting a row with the Russians at this time: they want us to redirect our wrath outwards at a foreign 'enemy', rather than upwards at its proper target--those corrupt elites.
Posted by: Seamus Padraig | 28 March 2018 at 04:02 PM
likbez
Paranoid fantasy. have you ever worked in the US government? I am going to ban you as a useless distraction. pl
Posted by: turcopolier | 28 March 2018 at 06:33 PM
TTG
It looks like DOJ IG Horowitz is going to initiate a review of the Carter Page FISA warrant process. Maybe we'll find out the role of Fusion GPS, Steele, Comey and others in this surveillance. And what if any surveillance of the Trump campaign took place and the evidence that caused the DOJ and FBI to that.
Posted by: Jack | 28 March 2018 at 07:12 PM
A Melian dialogue is indeed what we have, North Korea first took Seoul hostage and then proceeded to take Japan hostage too. US objects to being taken hostage by them and thus we are going to have the Trump-Une meeting to prevent that.
Posted by: Babak Makkinejad | 28 March 2018 at 11:16 PM
TTG at #18
...Beyond L'Affaire Russe, there is much that needs to be investigated concerning the CIA's capture-kill MO during the entire GWOT era. Brennan was in the thick of that, but that is not a subject for Mueller...
TTG, I think you are on something - Mueller is totally confused in the web of deceits so that he actually might stumble on Brennan's knowledge how the Russian oligarch Mikhail Lesin died in Washington D.C., and the web of deceits will get ever bigger and more confusing, as seen in the diagram within the article in this link
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomwarren/secrets-of-the-spy-in-the-bag?utm_term=.dwR69KKQg#.utw5KBB97
Posted by: fanto | 29 March 2018 at 12:08 AM