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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 20, 2018, 12:25:16 pm
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Brennan and the 2016 Spy Scandal
Kimberley A. Strassel July 19, 2018
The Trump-Russia sleuthers have been back in the news, again giving Americans cause to doubt their claims of nonpartisanship. Last week it was Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Peter Strzok testifying to Congress that he harbored no bias against a president he still describes as “horrible†and “disgusting.†This week it was former FBI Director Jim Comey tweet-lecturing Americans on their duty to vote Democratic in November.
But the man who deserves a belated bit of scrutiny is former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan. He’s accused President Trump of “venality, moral turpitude and political corruption,†and berated GOP investigations of the FBI. This week he claimed on Twitter that Mr. Trump’s press conference in Helsinki was “nothing short of treasonous.†This is rough stuff, even for an Obama partisan.
That’s what Mr. Brennan is—a partisan—and it is why his role in the 2016 scandal is in some ways more concerning than the FBI’s. Mr. Comey stands accused of flouting the rules, breaking the chain of command, abusing investigatory powers. Yet it seems far likelier that the FBI’s Trump investigation was a function of arrogance and overconfidence than some partisan plot. No such case can be made for Mr. Brennan. Before his nomination as CIA director, he served as a close Obama adviser. And the record shows he went on to use his position—as head of the most powerful spy agency in the world—to assist Hillary Clinton’s campaign (and keep his job).
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Brennan admits he voted for Gus Hall, Communist Party USA when Reagan ran.
This same Brennan struts aound like a Moral Peacock in his costume of "Intelligence Agent"
The biased media, on behalf of the Left, are all aligned to protect discovery of Obama's use of intelligence agencies against Americans.
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Think Clapper, caught lying to Congress. Think FBI harassing Tea Party legal entities. Think Comey, Lynch, McCabe,