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Brad Johnson, a retired 25-year veteran officer of the CIA, laments that in recent years he has seen our nationâs Intelligence Community âturn away from its core responsibilitiesâ â i.e., promoting âthe safety and security of all Americansâ â and embrace âa far more political agenda.â He notes, for example, that the Intelligence Communityâs 2017 quadrennial report about global trends âoverwhelminglyâ supports âglobal government integrationâ and the âglobalist movement,â which he describes as âa hardcore leftist philosophy that is deeply politicalâ and antithetical to the concept of national sovereignty.
His Long Track Record of Lies, Deceit & Catastrophic Judgment.
A particularly odious manifestation of this new globalist philosophy, says Johnson, was former CIA Director John Brennanâs so-called âmodernizationâ plan, which âsystematically dismantled and destroyed the CIAâs operations division â the heart of the agencyâs central mission of using people to steal vital secrets around the world.â Brennan himself articulated this new mindset when he flatly told National Public Radio in an interview: âWe donât steal secrets.â âThe Brennan plan,â says Johnson, âinstead called for other nationsâ intelligence services to provide the CIA with spies as intelligence collectors.â This approach made it impossible for the U.S. to keep its intelligence-gathering operations clandestine, thereby forfeiting the type of secrecy that is âfundamental to the credibility and reliability of the informationâ collected.
In light of the recent highly disturbing revelations about Obamagate, and in light of the damage that John Brennan in particular has done to Americaâs intelligence-gathering capacity and, by extension, to its national security, a closer look at the former CIA Director’s long track record of deceit, lies, and bad judgment is most certainly in order.
When Brennan was just 21 years old and attending Fordham University in New York, he voted for Communist Party USA (CPUSA) presidential nominee Gus Hall in the 1976 U.S. presidential election. As historian Ron Radosh points out, âThe CPUSA at that time was dedicated to gaining support for Soviet foreign policy, with the intent of defeating the United States in the Cold WarâŠ. Moscow regularly gave Hall thousands of dollars to enable the Communists in America to carry on their work.â
In 1980 Brennan earned an M.A. in government from the University of Texas. In his graduate thesis, he denied the existence of âabsolute human rightsâ and argued that âsince the press can play such an influential role in determining the perceptions of the masses,â he was âin favor of some degree of government censorship.â
Also in 1980, Brennan joined the CIA as an intelligence director, and in the â90s he served a stint as a daily intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton. In 1998 he played a key role in preventing an American operation that would have killed or captured Osama bin Laden, and instead he advised the U.S. to let Saudi Arabia deal with the al Qaeda leader. A few months later, bin Laden masterminded the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa; three years after that, he carried out the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In a 2006 interview on C-SPAN, Brennan spoke of the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah as an entity that merited a seat at the negotiating table along with the representatives of national governments from across the globe: âIt would be nice to be able to put Hezbollah in a category of being totally evil, but Hezbollah as an organization is a very complex one that has a terrorist arm to it. It has a social and political nature to it as well.â
In a paper he published in July 2008, Brennan stated that he saw the recent increase of political involvement by Hezbollah as a very positive development: âNot coincidentally, the evolution of Hezbollah into a fully vested player in the Lebanese political system has been accompanied by a marked reduction in terrorist attacks carried out by the organization. The best hope for maintaining this trend and for reducing the influence of violent extremists within the organization ⊠is to increase Hezbollahâs stake in Lebanonâs struggling democratic processes.â
In August 2009, Brennan said he was âpleased to see that a lot of Hezbollah individuals are in fact renouncing ⊠terrorism and violence and are trying to participate in the political process in a very legitimate fashion.â âHamas,â he added, had âstarted out as a very focused social organization that was providing welfare to Palestinians,â but eventually âdeveloped an extremist and terrorist elementâ that âunfortunately delegitimized it in the eyes of manyâ and diminished the chances of the Palestinian people getting âwhat they truly deserve, which is a Palestinian state side-by-side with Israel.â
When news of the George W. Bush administrationâs warrantless wiretapping initiative made headlines in late 2005, Brennan defended the practice and maintained that the telecommunication companies participating in the program âshould be granted ⊠immunity, because they were told to [participate] by the appropriate authorities that were operating in a legal context.â Brennan also supported âenhanced interrogationâ techniques, and he described âextraordinary renditionâ as âan absolutely vital toolâ that âwithout a doubt has been very successful as far as producing intelligence that has saved lives.â In a 2007 interview with CBS News, Brennan stated that waterboarding in particular was a highly useful practice that â has saved lives.â
But Brennan subsequently departed from all of those positions when he served as a senior advisor to Barack Obamaâs 2008 presidential campaign. In a letter to Obama, for example, Brennan called himself âa strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the preemptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include waterboarding.â In August 2009, Brennan said that tactics like waterboarding were not only inconsistent with âour ideals as a nation,â but also âundermine our national securityâ because they âare a recruitment bonanza for terrorists, increase the determination of our enemies, and decrease the willingness of other nations to cooperate with us.â
In 2009 as well, Brennan detailed for the first time the Obama administrationâs decision to dispense with the term âglobal war on terror.â Emphasizing the need to target âextremistsâ rather than âjihadists,â Brennan explained that âjihadâ means âto purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal.â The use of that term, he elaborated, ârisks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve. Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself.â
On Christmas Day 2009, Nigerian al Qaeda operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted, unsuccessfully, to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight (from Amsterdam to Detroit) in midair with a powerful chemical bomb. In the aftermath of the incident, Brennan explained that the Obama administration would treat it as a law-enforcement matter rather than as an act of war or terrorism; that the perpetrator would be offered a plea agreement in exchange for information about al Qaeda operations in Yemen; and that if such an agreement could not be worked out, Abdulmutallab would be tried in a federal civilian court rather than in a military tribunal.
Brennan sought to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a civilian court as well, stating, in a February 2010 speech to Islamic law students at New York University, that âwe need to bring him to justice in an American courtââa goal the Obama administration eventually abandoned, due to the planâs unpopularity with the U.S. public.
On March 17, 2011, forty-two Pakistanis — mostly civilians — were killed in a major CIA drone strike on the town of Datta Khel in North Waziristan. The incident was widely reported by the media and was angrily denounced by Pakistanâs government. An anonymous U.S. official later justified the attack as one that had targeted âa large group of heavily armed men, some of whom were clearly connected to Al Qaeda [AQ] and all of whom acted in a manner consistent with AQ-linked militants.â But in fact, the gathering was eventually confirmed to have been a jirga, or tribal meeting, convened to address a local mining-related dispute. The dead included dozens of tribal elders and local policemen, as well as a small number of Taliban.
But three months later, in a June 29 speech, Brennan claimed that the March 17 drone attack had not resulted in even âa single collateral death.â In fact, he went even further: âI can say that the types of operations⊠that the U.S. has been involved in, in the counter-terrorism realm, that nearly for the past year there hasnât been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities that weâve been able to develop.â
Brennan’s claim was untrue, however, as noted in a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ): âThe Datta Khel attack was not the only time that civilians had died in the period referred to by Brennan. Working with veteran Pakistani reporter Rahimullah Yusufzai and field researchers in the tribal areas, the Bureau identified and published details of 45 civilians known at the time to have been killed by CIA drones in ten strikes between August 2010 and June 2011, the date of Brennanâs speech. Many of those killed had died at Datta Khel.â
On October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera, president and executive director of the organization Muslim Advocates, sent Brennan a letter charging that the FBI was a bigoted agency which kept âantiquated and offensive documents about Muslims and Islamâ on its intranet, and that some of the Bureauâs new recruits were being taught âthat Islam is a religion that ‘transforms a countryâs culture into 7th-century Arabian ways.’â Within two weeks, Brennan capitulated to Kheraâs demand that Americaâs intelligence agencies eliminate their âoffensiveâ curriculum/training materials; i.e., he called for a purge of any and all materials that made reference to âjihadâ or âradical Islam.â
Speaking in June 2011 about how the Obama administration would deal with terrorism following the recent death of Osama bin Laden, Brennan dismissed any notion that Islamic terrorists might attempt to build a caliphate in the Middle East. âOur strategy is shaped by a deeper understanding of al-Qaedaâs goals, strategy and tactics that we have gained over the last decade,â said Brennan. âIâm not talking about al-Qaedaâs grandiose vision of global domination through a violent Islamic caliphate. That vision is absurd, and we are not going to organize our counter-terrorist polices against a feckless delusion that is never going to happenâŠ. We are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they really are.â
Events over the ensuing three years, however, would prove Brennan wrong. On June 29, 2014, ISIS announced the existence of what it called a new Islamic caliphate that would thenceforth go by the name âIslamic Stateâ and would recognize no existing national borders. By November 2014, the organization controlled some 100,000 square kilometers of territory in the Middle East.
In September 2012, Brennan was involved in crafting the false talking points that then-Secretary of State Susan Rice delivered during five separate television interviews regarding the 9/11/12 terrorist attack against a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Specifically, Rice claimed that according to the âbest information at present,â the deadly attack was not premeditated, but rather, was a âspontaneous reactionâ to âa hateful and offensive [anti-Islamic] video that was widely disseminated throughout the Arab and Muslim world.â
In March 2014, Senator Dianne Feinsteinâthe head of a Senate Intelligence Committee that was involved in a multi-year probe of the CIAâs use of harsh interrogation measures against suspected terrorists during the Bush Administrationâwent to the Senate floor and angrily accused the Agency of having hacked into the computers of her Committee staffers. In response, Brennan expressed dismay that âsome members of the Senateâ were making âspurious allegations about CIA actions that are wholly unsupported by the facts.â Moreover, he told NBCâs Andrea Mitchell: âAs far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldnât do that. I mean, thatâs just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.â Brennan likewise told the media that âa lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.â
But according to the findings of a CIA inspector generalâs report that was released on July 31, 2014, it was actually Brennan who was proved wrong. The report indicated that five CIA employeesâtwo attorneys and three computer specialistsâindeed had surreptitiously and unlawfully searched files and emails on the computers of the aforementioned Senate investigators. In response to the report, Brennan apologized to Senate Intelligence Committee leaders.
In a March 2015 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Brennan refused to refer to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group as an âIslamicâ entity. âBy ascribing [sic] it as a Muslim terrorism or Islamic extremism,â he said, âI think it does really give them the type of Islamic legitimacy that they are so desperately seeking, but which they donât deserve at all.â
In May 2017, Brennan lied to Congress when he testified that: (a) he did not know who had commissioned the infamous Steele dossier which contained many false accusations against Donald Trump and his political allies, and (b) the CIA had not relied on the dossier’s contents for any action that the Agency took.
In July 2018, Brennan was outraged by President Donald Trumpâs remarks at a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. At that event, Trump expressed doubt about a U.S. Intelligence Community assessment claiming that Russian operatives had interfered in America’s 2016 presidential election, and he suggested that he had at least as much faith in the Russian KGB as he had in the American CIA. Later that day, Brennan described Trump’s comments as ânothing short of treasonous.â
In August 2018, President Trump revoked Brennan’s security clearance, explaining that Brennan’s âlying and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentaryâ was âwholly inconsistent with access to the nationâs most closely held secrets and facilities, the very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos.â In response, Brennan told NBC’s Meet the Press that Trump’s move was âtreasonous.â
In a February 2020 interview on MSNBC, Brennan said that President Trumpâs staunchest supporters are a âvery debased group of people.â
In light of John Brennanâs long history of undermining Americaâs national security by downplaying the extent of the threat posed by our nationâs most committed enemies, it is no wonder that he detests President Trump. In virtually every way possible, Trump is the anti-Brennan.
SOURCE:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/john-brennan-traitor-chief-discover-networks/
