Posted on 01/18/2017 6:51:35 AM PST by TigerClaws
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
When Sen. Kamala Harris grilled President Elect Donald Trump’s pick for CIA Director Mike Pompeo last week, she demanded to know his personal views on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement.
Never mind, the growing jihadist threat, how the agency missed Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the potential of a nuclear-enabled North Korea, and the growing expansion of China in the South China Sea. Altogether, it was a bizarre exchange.
But apparently, she was onto something.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Wall Street Journal, departing CIA Director John Brennan said he wants his legacy to be the work he did to advance the LGBTQ community.
“During his tenure he has put particular emphasis on promoting the interests of gay, lesbian, and transgender officers,” the Journal reported. “He was the first CIA director to attend an annual social gathering of LGBTQ employees and has been known to wear a rainbow lanyard around the office as a symbol of solidarity.
For Mr. Brennan, who said his perspective was informed by growing up ‘a white male from New Jersey,’ diversity of backgrounds leads to better analysis, which in his estimation can prevent intelligence disasters,” the Journal said.
‘”I just think that having those varied perspectives really adds greater color and dimension and diversity to how we look at problems,’” Mr. Brennan told the Journal. “’It gets us away from groupthink.’”
That’s all good – however, the CIA has had some big misses under Mr. Brennan, and the agency has grown more political, as witnessed through the many leaks against Mr. Trump in recent weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“..an annual social gathering of LGBTQ employees..
Phew, i did read that right. It did say “annual”.
Orlando comes to mind.
Isn’t that what the CIA is for? To promote the BLT community?
He’s into some serious taqiyya.
I prefer using BLTGQ...
As to Brennan, if he lacked any creds before this ‘splains evra-thang.
We’re learning just how bad Brennan was. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if DJT could abolish the CIA?
Leni
He was the first CIA director to attend an annual social gathering of LGBTQ employees and has been known to wear a rainbow lanyard around the office as a symbol of solidarity.
A Muslim brotherhooder wants to to be best known for his work in the LGBTQRXUUVLMNOP (and sometimes Y) world.
Talk about conflicting contrasts.
Brennan is/was a Jesuit educated Catholic as well as a Jihadist!
As Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, Brennan – a Jesuit-educated Catholic – has played a prominent role in the administration’s outreach to Muslims, American Muslims especially. He has also been a leading proponent of the effort to stop using terms many Muslims find offensive, such as “jihadist” as a descriptor for terrorists acting in the name of Islam.
“They are not jihadists,” he told the NYU audience in 2010, “for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify, for a legitimate purpose. And there is nothing, absolutely nothing holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children.”
Brennan had made similar comments the previous August, telling a Center for Strategic and International Studies event that “describing terrorists in this way, using the legitimate term ‘jihad’ – which means to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal – risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/islam-helped-shape-cia-nominee-john-brennan-s-world-view
so for getting them chucked off the top of buildings in the mideast?
The libtard Kamala Harris should worry about North Korean ICBM’s heading towards California, Not LBGTZZZZ or whatever “rights.”
See how many electoral votes are remaining in California if the crazy Norks manage to send five or six nukes to the not so Golden State.
Because that is how you secure 330 million Americans against murderous jihadists around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiya
http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm
I should think his participation in jihad should suffice, no?
The word certainly is applicable to Brennan's insidious behavior.
Leni
The funny thing is that these nasty, hateful, vindictive people (the LGBTQxyz and muslims) are the absolute LAST people in the world who should be trusted with the kind of power the CIA wields.
Except it’s NOT funny.
All of them.
CIA Pantywaist brigade is leaving the building.
“Did the CIA and the Clinton Foundation murder Judge Scalia,
or did the CIA just cover it up?”
Probably both. I still think the plan was for HRC to pick Obama to replace Scalia. That’s why he didn’t push harder to fill the opening. A SC Justice is found dead in a Rat donors house with a pillow over his head and no investigation not even an autopsy seriously?
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