John Brennan: Portrait of a serial liar

Flopping Aces ^ | 08-20-18 | DrJohn

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Historian Douglas Brinkley was speaking with Don Lemon last week on CNN. Brinkley made a statement that left me incredulous. He called John Brennan's tenure at the CIA "impeccable." It makes you wonder what kind of historian Brinkley is and throws into doubt all of his past work. "Impeccable" is not the word that describes Brennan's career. "Lacking candor" is far more accurate and it's probably too kind.

He is a serial liar. Brennan's record is anything but impeccable.

In 2011 he lied about drone strike civilian casualties

In 2011, Brennan claimed that dozens of U.S. drone strikes on overseas targets had not killed a single civilian. This remarkable success rate was not only disputed at the time by news reports — even supporters of the drone program called it “absurd” — but as the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the New York Times both reported later, President Obama received reports from the very beginning of his presidency about drone strikes killing numerous civilians. As Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser at the time, Brennan would have received these reports as well, so either Brennan knew that his claim was a lie, or he is secretly deaf.

Following the Benghazi disaster, Brennan forced all the survivors to sign non-disclosure agreements. For some reason, Brennan did not want Americans to know the truth. Brennan initially denied it:

It was a lie. A flat out lie. WaPo:

In March, at the Council on Foreign Relations, CIA Director John Brennan was asked by NBC’s Andrea Mitchell whether the CIA had illegally accessed Senate Intelligence Committee staffcomputers “to thwart an investigation by the committee into” the agency’s past interrogation techniques. The accusation had been made earlier that day by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who said the CIA had “violated the separation-of-powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution.” Brennan answered:

As far as the allegations of, you know, CIA hacking into, you know, Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. I mean, we wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s — that’s just beyond the — you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do. {…}

And, you know, when the facts come out on this, I think a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.

"When the facts come out."  Sound familiar?

One survivor refused to sign it. Brennan saw that he was punished.

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Congressman Joe Wilson has one thing to say to John Brennan:
“You Lie!”

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Douglas Brinkley is the genius who conducted comprehensive research of American colonial and Revolutionary history and concluded that Americans did not own their own firearms, all those firearms on the frontier were issued by the government.

[Sparticus]

Brinkley is just helping to circle the wagons and push back against Trump on this. The real reason that they are FREAKING OUT about the security clearance thing is they just realized that it's Trump's trump card (pardon the pun) against the so called "intelligence community." He can use it to effectively get rid of anyone, no matter how well connected -- even use to can lots of lower level Obama-ites embedded in all the alphabet soup agencies. Without a clearance they are pretty much kicked out of the club and can't work.

"So sorry, you're new assignment is polishing floors in a remote Alaskan air force base."

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John is no liar./s

As a muslim he practices taqiyya.

It is his Mohammed-given right.

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A man who stays true to his core values!