Posted on 01/07/2013 5:23:19 PM PST by Nachum
Prior to President Obama's first inauguration in 2009, a controversy erupted over reports that he intended to appoint John Brennan as CIA director. That controversy, in which I participated, centered around the fact that Brennan, as a Bush-era CIA official, had expressly endorsed Bush's programs of torture (other than waterboarding) and rendition and also was a vocal advocate of immunizing lawbreaking telecoms for their role in the illegal Bush NSA eavesdropping program. As a result, Brennan withdrew his name from consideration, issuing a bitter letter blaming "strong criticism in some quarters prompted by [his] previous service with the" CIA.
This "victory" of forcing Brennan's withdrawal proved somewhat Pyrrhic, as Obama then appointed him as his top counter-terrorism adviser, where he exerted at least as much influence as he would have had as CIA Director, if not more. In that position, Brennan last year got caught outright lying when he claimed Obama's drone program caused no civilian deaths in Pakistan over the prior year. He also spouted complete though highly influential falsehoods to the world in the immediate aftermath of the Osama bin Laden killing, including claiming that bin Laden "engaged in a firefight" with Navy SEALS and had "used his wife as a human shield". Brennan has also been in charge of many of Obama's most controversial and radical policies, including "signature strikes" in Yemen - targeting people without even knowing who they are - and generally seizing the power to determine who will be marked for execution without any due process, oversight or transparency.
As it typically does in the US National Security State, all of that deceit and radicalism is resulting not in recrimination or loss of credibility for Brennan, but in reward and promotion. At 1 pm EST today, Obama will announce that he has selected
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Trouble is, Brennan has the goods on President Camacho.
Enhanced interrogation techniques are AOK by me.
major ****up gets top job....figures
Isn't The Guardian an ultra left wing rag ?
Heard talk today that Obama’s next appointment will be Susan Rice as National Security Adviser.
Let’s see: Kerry, Hagel, Brennan, and Rice.
Obama is enjoying rubbing incompetence in our face.
When GWB (a U.S. Citizen) was POTUS, the State-Run-Media was 24/7 against waterboarding, wiretaps of any kind, etc., and now the guy that was at the forefront of not only that process, but targeted assassination via drones, and lying about civilian casualties from strikes is gonna be rewarded, and the State-Run-Media has no problem because the Mulatto Messiah has spoken!
Water-boarding is bad, but killing those same terrorist suspects via a drone is A OK (in the tortured logic of liberal minds).
Brennan is to “Intelligence” as Charles Manson was to
“population control” or “an evening dinner”.
Having the Communist Guardian complain about Brennan is almost enough to make me think he might be a good pick. Then I consider who is picking him. Obama never made a good pick in ANY position in his administration.
In general, I believe the president’s nominations should be given a great deal of deference. The nominees should represent the character and views of the president. In the case of Obama, while that communist bigot is not deserving of any title more prestigious than Former Junior US Senator from Illinois, I can’t imagine a more appropriate representative of the thug in our White House than a man described by “extremism and dishonesty”. If true, then Brennan is the right man for the job of carrying out Obama’s policies. If not, then Brennan will be an extremely rare breath of fresh air in the dreadful Obama Era.
With Brennan Benghazi-Coward Obama will have his own private Foreign Gestapo do do his dirty work.
“The name is Hussein, Hussein Obama.”
Seig Heil! Forward!
All I know is 1) the guy is a real “spook” and 2) a University of Texas Longhorn.
2) a University of Texas Longhorn...... Ugh.
Are you suggesting that Greenwald does not even rise to the level of a fully-formed turd? You might be correct.
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