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    Default Ex-CIA Chief Brennan's Security Clearance Should Have Been Revoked Long Ago

    Democrats and spy agency bureaucrats squealed with rage after President Trump pulled former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance. Why are they upset? Brennan clearly abused his privileged security clearance by using it for political purposes and profit.

    Mr. Brennan's lying and recent conduct, characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary, is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation's most closely held secrets and facilities, the very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, reading a statement.

    There's no question that Brennan lied, both to Congress and the American people, more than once and under oath.

    And for someone with continued privileged access to the nation's secrets to call the president "treasonous" merely for speaking to Vladimir Putin isn't an exercise of freedom of speech — it verges on a threat.

    Brennan tweeted his response: "My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."

    Among his many left-leaning defenders, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal had by far the most absurd response, calling it an "illegal" violation of the First Amendment.

    Huh? A security clearance is not a right, otherwise all of us would have it. It's a privilege and, as with all privileges conferred by the government, it is subject to revocation if the person who has it abuses it.

    Sadly, Brennan didn't just abuse it as a private citizen by leveraging his access for lucrative TV gigs in which he did little other than trash the president and mislead the public.

    There's also ample evidence he abused his security clearance by violating the law while acting as the CIA's chief, a far more serious charge, in our opinion.

    In 2014, he flat-out denied hacking into computers used by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was at the time investigating the CIA's use of harsh interrogation measures against terrorists.

    After the computer break-ins were proven beyond a doubt, Brennan apologized but refused to acknowledge wrong-doing by the CIA. Despite calls for his dismissal even by Democrats, President Obama stood by his man. Brennan stayed.

    But this wasn't the last time Brennan's CIA spied on U.S. citizens. Far worse than spying on Congress was the CIA's involvement in the 2016 election, which increasingly appears to be not just out of bounds, but outright illegal.

    Brennan's CIA ran an operation with the FBI that targeted the Trump presidential campaign, using foreign-based assets like CIA and MI6-linked Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, to lure Trump campaign aides into potentially politically-compromising meetings.

    As USA Today reported earlier this year,
    "Glenn Simpson, founder of the Fusion GPS research firm that hired former British agent Christopher Steele, told investigators that the FBI had shared the existence of 'a human source from inside the Trump Organization' in a September 2016 meeting with Steele."
    "Shared," as in exploited along with the CIA. So the CIA, which by law cannot spy on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, seems to have partnered in spying on Trump.

    Based on recent bizarrely angry comments, Brennan has a near pathological hatred of Trump.
    A growing pile of evidence suggests he co-ran a spying operation intended to smear Trump as a stooge of the Russians to help Hillary Clinton win the presidency.

    It failed, but that's still criminal behavior. And the bogus investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of Trump's alleged "collusion" with Russia continues.

    Brennan shouldn't be in the clear.
    The Senate should fully investigate the CIA's role under Brennan in trying to subvert our democracy. It's time the American people find out what really happened in the last election.

    And, for the record, no one took away Brennan's First Amendment rights. To say otherwise is either stupidity or extreme disingenuousness.

    Yet that's the new talking point. Even disgraced former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claims Brennan's loss of his security clearance is an "infringement" of his free speech rights. Others say Trump has "silenced" Brennan.

    Hogwash. No one has taken his right to speak away from him. He's free to tweet, give speeches, show up on TV, host conferences, write books and rage-filled op-eds to his heart's content. He just can't have privileged access to the nation's secrets when he does so. He doesn't deserve it.

    As a side note, Brennan should have never been approved as CIA director in the first place. He admits to voting Communist at least once in his life, a sign of extremism and poor judgment that shouldn't be rewarded with the most powerful spying post in our government.
    https://www.investors.com/politics/e...rance-removed/

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    Democrats and spy agency bureaucrats squealed with rage after President Trump pulled former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance. Why are they upset? Brennan clearly abused his privileged security clearance by using it for political purposes and profit.

    Mr. Brennan's lying and recent conduct, characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary, is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation's most closely held secrets and facilities, the very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, reading a statement.



    There's no question that Brennan lied, both to Congress and the American people, more than once and under oath.

    And for someone with continued privileged access to the nation's secrets to call the president "treasonous" merely for speaking to Vladimir Putin isn't an exercise of freedom of speech — it verges on a threat.

    Brennan tweeted his response: "My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."

    Among his many left-leaning defenders, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal had by far the most absurd response, calling it an "illegal" violation of the First Amendment.

    Huh? A security clearance is not a right, otherwise all of us would have it. It's a privilege and, as with all privileges conferred by the government, it is subject to revocation if the person who has it abuses it.

    Sadly, Brennan didn't just abuse it as a private citizen by leveraging his access for lucrative TV gigs in which he did little other than trash the president and mislead the public.

    There's also ample evidence he abused his security clearance by violating the law while acting as the CIA's chief, a far more serious charge, in our opinion.

    In 2014, he flat-out denied hacking into computers used by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was at the time investigating the CIA's use of harsh interrogation measures against terrorists.

    After the computer break-ins were proven beyond a doubt, Brennan apologized but refused to acknowledge wrong-doing by the CIA. Despite calls for his dismissal even by Democrats, President Obama stood by his man. Brennan stayed.

    But this wasn't the last time Brennan's CIA spied on U.S. citizens. Far worse than spying on Congress was the CIA's involvement in the 2016 election, which increasingly appears to be not just out of bounds, but outright illegal.

    Brennan's CIA ran an operation with the FBI that targeted the Trump presidential campaign, using foreign-based assets like CIA and MI6-linked Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, to lure Trump campaign aides into potentially politically-compromising meetings.

    As USA Today reported earlier this year,

    "Shared," as in exploited along with the CIA. So the CIA, which by law cannot spy on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, seems to have partnered in spying on Trump.

    Based on recent bizarrely angry comments, Brennan has a near pathological hatred of Trump.
    A growing pile of evidence suggests he co-ran a spying operation intended to smear Trump as a stooge of the Russians to help Hillary Clinton win the presidency.

    It failed, but that's still criminal behavior. And the bogus investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of Trump's alleged "collusion" with Russia continues.

    Brennan shouldn't be in the clear.
    The Senate should fully investigate the CIA's role under Brennan in trying to subvert our democracy. It's time the American people find out what really happened in the last election.

    And, for the record, no one took away Brennan's First Amendment rights. To say otherwise is either stupidity or extreme disingenuousness.

    Yet that's the new talking point. Even disgraced former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claims Brennan's loss of his security clearance is an "infringement" of his free speech rights. Others say Trump has "silenced" Brennan.

    Hogwash. No one has taken his right to speak away from him. He's free to tweet, give speeches, show up on TV, host conferences, write books and rage-filled op-eds to his heart's content. He just can't have privileged access to the nation's secrets when he does so. He doesn't deserve it.

    As a side note, Brennan should have never been approved as CIA director in the first place. He admits to voting Communist at least once in his life, a sign of extremism and poor judgment that shouldn't be rewarded with the most powerful spying post in our government.
    https://www.investors.com/politics/e...rance-removed/
    Just one question- If he lied before Congress, why wasn't he held accountable?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Just one question- If he lied before Congress, why wasn't he held accountable?
    good question:
    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/07...py-on-congress
    the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff and reversing months of furious and public denials. Brennan acknowledged that an internal investigation had found agency security personnel transgressed a firewall set up on a CIA network, called RDINet, which allowed Senate committee investigators to review agency documents for their landmark inquiry into CIA torture."
    (Sen. Diane Feinstein was one of those vocally accusing the CIA of spying on Congress;

    ~~

    I would assume the apology by Brennan was considered enough/acceptable. Obama chose to keep him on anyway

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    Still not going to stop anyone from criticizing Drump
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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    good question:
    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/07...py-on-congress
    the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff and reversing months of furious and public denials. Brennan acknowledged that an internal investigation had found agency security personnel transgressed a firewall set up on a CIA network, called RDINet, which allowed Senate committee investigators to review agency documents for their landmark inquiry into CIA torture."


    (Sen. Diane Feinstein was one of those vocally accusing the CIA of spying on Congress;

    ~~

    I would assume the apology by Brennan was considered enough/acceptable. Obama chose to keep him on anyway
    Once again, if he really lied under oath, why hasn't he been punished?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Once again, if he really lied under oath, why hasn't he been punished?
    first off I'm not sure if he was sworn, but even if he was that's a Congressional decision to indict or not.
    I would think due to separation of powers -they left it upto Obama

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    first off I'm not sure if he was sworn, but even if he was that's a Congressional decision to indict or not.
    I would think due to separation of powers -they left it upto Obama
    First of all, any lie to Congress sworn or not, is illegal. Secondly it was a republican congress who would leave nothing up to Obama. Now, your next excuse?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Once again, if he really lied under oath, why hasn't he been punished?

    I'm with you, if what Brennan has said is really a LIE, then prove it in Court .. don't just throw temper tantrums.
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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    First of all, any lie to Congress sworn or not, is illegal. Secondly it was a republican congress who would leave nothing up to Obama. Now, your next excuse?

    Then why is trump Jr not in Jail?
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    This has been a pretty good argument to take away trumps clearance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    Democrats and spy agency bureaucrats squealed with rage after President Trump pulled former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance. Why are they upset? Brennan clearly abused his privileged security clearance by using it for political purposes and profit.

    Mr. Brennan's lying and recent conduct, characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary, is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation's most closely held secrets and facilities, the very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, reading a statement.

    There's no question that Brennan lied, both to Congress and the American people, more than once and under oath.

    And for someone with continued privileged access to the nation's secrets to call the president "treasonous" merely for speaking to Vladimir Putin isn't an exercise of freedom of speech — it verges on a threat.

    Brennan tweeted his response: "My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."

    Among his many left-leaning defenders, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal had by far the most absurd response, calling it an "illegal" violation of the First Amendment.

    Huh? A security clearance is not a right, otherwise all of us would have it. It's a privilege and, as with all privileges conferred by the government, it is subject to revocation if the person who has it abuses it.

    Sadly, Brennan didn't just abuse it as a private citizen by leveraging his access for lucrative TV gigs in which he did little other than trash the president and mislead the public.

    There's also ample evidence he abused his security clearance by violating the law while acting as the CIA's chief, a far more serious charge, in our opinion.

    In 2014, he flat-out denied hacking into computers used by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was at the time investigating the CIA's use of harsh interrogation measures against terrorists.

    After the computer break-ins were proven beyond a doubt, Brennan apologized but refused to acknowledge wrong-doing by the CIA. Despite calls for his dismissal even by Democrats, President Obama stood by his man. Brennan stayed.

    But this wasn't the last time Brennan's CIA spied on U.S. citizens. Far worse than spying on Congress was the CIA's involvement in the 2016 election, which increasingly appears to be not just out of bounds, but outright illegal.

    Brennan's CIA ran an operation with the FBI that targeted the Trump presidential campaign, using foreign-based assets like CIA and MI6-linked Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, to lure Trump campaign aides into potentially politically-compromising meetings.

    As USA Today reported earlier this year,

    "Shared," as in exploited along with the CIA. So the CIA, which by law cannot spy on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, seems to have partnered in spying on Trump.

    Based on recent bizarrely angry comments, Brennan has a near pathological hatred of Trump.
    A growing pile of evidence suggests he co-ran a spying operation intended to smear Trump as a stooge of the Russians to help Hillary Clinton win the presidency.

    It failed, but that's still criminal behavior. And the bogus investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of Trump's alleged "collusion" with Russia continues.

    Brennan shouldn't be in the clear.
    The Senate should fully investigate the CIA's role under Brennan in trying to subvert our democracy. It's time the American people find out what really happened in the last election.

    And, for the record, no one took away Brennan's First Amendment rights. To say otherwise is either stupidity or extreme disingenuousness.

    Yet that's the new talking point. Even disgraced former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claims Brennan's loss of his security clearance is an "infringement" of his free speech rights. Others say Trump has "silenced" Brennan.

    Hogwash. No one has taken his right to speak away from him. He's free to tweet, give speeches, show up on TV, host conferences, write books and rage-filled op-eds to his heart's content. He just can't have privileged access to the nation's secrets when he does so. He doesn't deserve it.

    As a side note, Brennan should have never been approved as CIA director in the first place. He admits to voting Communist at least once in his life, a sign of extremism and poor judgment that shouldn't be rewarded with the most powerful spying post in our government.
    https://www.investors.com/politics/e...rance-removed/

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    Should it have been taken away when he ran the raid that killed Osama? He was in the CIA or 25 years fighting to keep you safe. Glad you rightys appreciate that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    First of all, any lie to Congress sworn or not, is illegal. Secondly it was a republican congress who would leave nothing up to Obama. Now, your next excuse?
    you simply do not understand separation of powers. If anything Congress would censor.
    And the lying was to Diane Feinstein's questions by the Senate Intelligence Committee ghearing

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    you simply do not understand separation of powers. If anything Congress would censor.
    And the lying was to Diane Feinstein's questions by the Senate Intelligence Committee ghearing
    Wrong, Congress does not censor, congress would send the transcript to the justice dept for prosecution. They did not. Furthermore lying under oath to a congressional committee is a very serious offense. You are just making lame pathetic excuses.

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