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John Brennan, Obama's CIA director, admits egging on the FBI's probe of Trump and Russia
foxnews.com ^ | 7/19/18 | Kimberley Strassel

Posted on 07/20/2018 6:54:57 AM PDT by a little elbow grease

(snip) --- The CIA director couldn’t himself go public with his Clinton spin—he lacked the support of the intelligence community and had to be careful not to be seen interfering in U.S. politics. So what to do? He called Harry Reid. In a late August briefing, he told the Senate minority leader that Russia was trying to help Mr. Trump win the election, and that Trump advisers might be colluding with Russia. (Two years later, no public evidence has emerged to support such a claim.)

But the truth was irrelevant. On cue, within a few days of the briefing, Mr. Reid wrote a letter to Mr. Comey, which of course immediately became public. “The evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign continues to mount,” wrote Mr. Reid, going on to float Team Clinton’s Russians-are-helping-Trump theory. Mr. Reid publicly divulged at least one of the allegations contained in the infamous Steele dossier, insisting that the FBI use “every resource available to investigate this matter.”

The Reid letter marked the first official blast of the Brennan-Clinton collusion narrative into the open. Clinton opposition-research firm Fusion GPS followed up by briefing its media allies about the dossier it had dropped off at the FBI. On Sept. 23, Yahoo News’s Michael Isikoff ran the headline: “U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin.” Voilà. Not only was the collusion narrative out there, but so was evidence that the FBI was investigating.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201608; brennan; cia; harryreid; isikoff; reid; trumprussia
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To: Texas Eagle

Gus Hall, 1976. It’s no secret.


21 posted on 07/20/2018 7:08:03 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Texas Eagle

In 1976 John Brennan voted for Gus Hall. Claimed it was a “protest vote,” but Gus Hall was so notoriously vile no sane person would associate with him- and voting for a guy worse than any moral problem you could have with another candidate doesn’t make for convincing “protest vote.” Should have wrote in Porky Pig.

Brennan claims he feared this one vote would ruin his chances of being hired but I call BS on that- voting is secret. There had to be something else in his background he did not want discovered.


22 posted on 07/20/2018 7:08:28 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Texas Eagle

Right ......


23 posted on 07/20/2018 7:09:00 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties are worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: JayAr36

“How did we get a Muslim Communist as the director of the CIA. Oh, I remember we had a Muslim Communist as President.”

I admit I’m a deplorable. I like our country to be run by natural-born white, or at least white-thinking, individuals. It’s the culture, not the skin color that matters.


24 posted on 07/20/2018 7:09:33 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: a little elbow grease

Either Brennan and his fellow travelers go - or our Republic goes. We have arrived at the Rubicon.


25 posted on 07/20/2018 7:11:05 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Nifster

Didn’t Reid make claims about Romney’s tax returns?


26 posted on 07/20/2018 7:13:58 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: a little elbow grease

Notice who this “former Communist” contacted to get the collusion lie out. Harry Reid was the obvious choice. That liar got the Democrat media to broadcast the lie that Mitt Romney had paid no taxes for ten years, so Brennan knew Reid would do it.


27 posted on 07/20/2018 7:14:07 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: JayAr36

Absolutely frightening.....you could not have convinced someone 20 years ago that it was possible.


28 posted on 07/20/2018 7:16:44 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: a little elbow grease; Principled; All

there are many good verses about not being weary when trying to do what God wants us to (act or stand firm, etc). We can be in His strength, not our own. :)

prayers of President Trump and all good/godly people around him and across our nation, renew their strength and resolve to follow the LORD thru these challenging times in our nation and world.


29 posted on 07/20/2018 7:16:45 AM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: Kevin in California

“””””Has anyone seen (or heard from) AG Sessions? Did he die and it’s not being reported yet?””””””””””””

I think he is still traveling the country giving campaign speeches. He thinks he is running for office, apparently.


30 posted on 07/20/2018 7:20:27 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Texas Eagle
It is public knowledge, in fact Brennan himself has admitted that his first opportunity to vote, he voted for the Communist on the ballot!

The Senate voted to confirm him anyway!

Are they all Communists or does this knowledge just not matter any more in Amerika?

31 posted on 07/20/2018 7:20:33 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower..AMERICA! Designed by geniuses - now run by the idiots in Congress)
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To: b4me
prayers of President Trump and all good/godly people around him and across our nation, renew their strength and resolve to follow the LORD thru these challenging times in our nation and world

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Thank you...........

32 posted on 07/20/2018 7:20:55 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties are worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: Principled

President Trump needs to be extremely careful out there in Washington. It matters not how smart he is, when your dealing with madness, mayhem and idiocy along with the level of hypocrisy from our own supposed “side”, every move he makes is pounded as a mistake too the public viewing through the network nooos. I also think that for the most part the level on intelligence he is dealing with in that cesspool is much lower than he expected, and he is lacking a solid pool of smart people in the swamp he can even trust, let alone rely on to do any heavy lifting.


33 posted on 07/20/2018 7:21:35 AM PDT by phs3 (MAGA - Winning a little more every day!!!)
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To: TTFlyer
"Either Brennan and his fellow travelers go - or our Republic goes. We have arrived at the Rubicon."

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YES

34 posted on 07/20/2018 7:24:02 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties are worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: a little elbow grease

If this isn’t enough to shut down the Mueller probe, what is?


35 posted on 07/20/2018 7:24:05 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

see # 27


36 posted on 07/20/2018 7:24:49 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties are worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: piasa
How could John Brennan's 1976 Communist Party presidential vote have been a mere protest - as Brennan and the politcal-media establishment is telling us?

Per Wikipedia (an all these sources): "In 1976, he voted for Communist Party USA candidate Gus Hall in the presidential election; he later said that he viewed it as a way "of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change.""

1) BUT also from the above Wikipedia LINK, we know he was born and graduated HS in North Bergen, NJ and then attended Fordham till graduation in 1977.

2) Since Fordham (Bronx, NY) is 13.5 from North Bergen and he 'rode a bus to class at Fordham' we can be certain he lived and voted in NJ in 1976:

Map: North Bergen - Fordham
3) Below is the ballot for United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1976 (from everipedia.org/wiki/)
Republican 		Gerald Ford 
Democratic 		Jimmy Carter 
Independent 		Eugene McCarthy
Libertarian 		Roger MacBride
American Independent 	Lester Maddox
Socialist Labor 	Julius Levin
Communist 		Gus Hall 
U.S. Labor 		Lyndon LaRouche
Socialist Workers 	Peter Camejo
People's 		Margaret Wright
Prohibition 		Ben Bubar 
Socialist 		Frank Zeidler 
If Brennan was not a Commie and merely meant his vote as a protest of the two-party system, why didn't he choose any of the other NINE fringe party candidates rather than single out the Communist party of Gus Hall for his approval? Why didn't Jimmy Carter's & Stansfield Turner's CIA ask in 1980? Why has it not been asked?

Instead he gets into the CIA, eventually becomes it's director , is now in the lead of a "resistance" to overthrow the elected president of the US... and lectures real Americans on "patriotism." If this was a movie script it would be rejected as totally unbelievable

37 posted on 07/20/2018 7:24:53 AM PDT by drpix
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Reid, the POS, was the dems go to person to libel GOP candidates. This is the formal record of this turd’s action: “Then-Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid released a letter in the heat of the 2016 election alleging Trump-Russia collusion even though the CIA director at the time urged him not to, according to a person familiar with their conversation.

Mr. Reid’s Aug. 27 letter to the FBI appears to mark the first time a Democrat officially accused President’ Trump’s campaign of colluding with the Russian government to hack his party’s computers.”

I was hoping when this guy got back to Nv, he would get flushed down some sanitary sewer


38 posted on 07/20/2018 7:25:56 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: phs3
I also think that for the most part the level on intelligence he is dealing with in that cesspool is much lower than he expected, and he is lacking a solid pool of smart people in the swamp he can even trust, let alone rely on to do any heavy lifting.

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Those are very interesting thoughts. I hope that you are wrong.

(I think he has his OWN heavy lifting guys of whom we have never heard.)

39 posted on 07/20/2018 7:29:15 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties are worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: cymbeline

Re: “ I admit I’m a deplorable. I like our country to be run by natural-born white, or at least white-thinking, individuals. It’s the culture, not the skin color that matters.”

First, the second and third sentences above contradict each other.

Second, this is not what being a “deplorable” means.

Is this really what you meant to say?


40 posted on 07/20/2018 7:29:16 AM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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