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Posted on 08/17/2018 11:07:44 AM PDT by jazusamo
John Brennan rallied numerous high-powered defenders to his corner over his security clearance clash with President Trump, but some well-known special ops heroes are firing back suggesting the former CIA director got what he deserves.
Kris “Tanto” Paronto, a former Army Ranger and private security contractor who was part of the CIA team that fought back during the 2012 Benghazi terror attack, accused Brennan of putting his “politics” before those in the field.
“He is lucky the security clearance is all he is getting away with,” Paronto told Fox News in an interview on Friday.
Responding a day earlier to Brennan’s tweet that his “principles are worth far more than clearances,” Paronto also tweeted:
“My principles are greater than clearances too John, especially when you and the @CIA kool-aid drinkers punishes us for not going along with the Benghazi cover-up story in order to protect you, @HillaryClinton’s & @BarackObama’s failures. You put your politics before us.”
Paronto helped write the book "13 Hours," later turned into a feature film, about the Benghazi attack. He has said he and his team lost their security clearances for speaking out.
Security operators including Paronto previously had to sign non-disclosure agreements -- Paronto told Fox News he signed three pertaining to Benghazi within a six-month period -- though Brennan told lawmakers in 2014 this was not a specific effort to prevent them from speaking to Congress.
Paronto maintains, however, that he didn't share classified information in telling the Benghazi story and continues to object to their clearances being revoked.
“Normally when you have a clearance suspended, you’re supposed to know why ... I was never given that,” he said, blaming Brennan. “It was his determination whether we kept our clearances or not.”
He also took exception at how the Benghazi team was treated...
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I want to see Brennan hang. Literally.
I doubt there’s many that would lose any sleep over it.
“...Special ops shoot down Brennan...”
Damn, Jaz... Ya got me excited with the first half of title for a minute...
But not alone, all by himself.
WTF was that about?!!! He must be a dirty Democrat cause if he's a Republican, I will be SHOCKED!!!!
McRaven is and always has been a boot licking lefty political animal. He is scum.
Sorry for the let down. :^)
Some posts I read on a thread from some that knew him say he’s a flaming lib.
I was SURPRISED! He is a Navy SEAL! 1st Navy SEAL that is a Democrat that I know of!! LOL
S’all right, my friend...
A visit to the gallows for that POS is better anyway.
:^)
Paronto does sell some nice sunglasses. He’s on TV all the time.
His name is mCRAVEN.
And I must say that he does live up to his name.
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IIRC, the Lincoln assassination conspirators set our record for most hangings at once with four. It deserves to be broken. I’d hope we can stop short of the the Roman finale to Spartacus’s revolt.
The liberal talking point responding to revocation of TS clearance is “Trump is attacking my first amendment rights”. How so? No one is saying you can’t attack Trump. Only that you cannot use your status as a former government official to politically/economicly profit while still maintaining a connection to government. Truth be told the longstanding tradition of retaining security clearance should be discontinued anyway. Just another ruling class perk.
I agree and the first amendment right issue in this fiasco is nonsense.
Trump ought to take him up on his offer and take away McRaven’s clearance, too!!
A whole lot of others should be added.
bkmk
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