John Brennan, Hillary’s Helper
He facilitated her Russian smear of Trump.
by George Neumayr
October 9, 2020, 12:00 AM
It came out this week that John Brennan, the most partisan CIA director ever, briefed Barack Obama on Hillary Clinton’s plans to smear Trump as a Putin-besotted collaborator. Brennan’s 2016 briefing notes to Obama refer to “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 28 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.â€
Did Obama tell his CIA director to steer clear of this partisan mischief? Clearly not. Brennan had already joined in it. Auditioning for a role in the Hillary administration — Brennan had told his colleagues he wanted to remain as CIA director under her — Brennan was pushing the Trump smear as hard as anyone.
CIA interference in elections was once one of the gravest sins in the liberal catechism. How times had changed. Brennan spent much of 2016 meddling in the election, first forming early in that year an “interagency taskforce†at Langley to hype Trump–Russia ties.
Brennan became what he once claimed to oppose: a CIA director up to his eyeballs in domestic politics. In the radical 1970s, he had received an education steeped in anti-American literature about such CIA directors. According to his own admission, the mischief of the CIA and other agencies engendered in him a distrust of America — an “unhappiness with the system†that led him to vote in 1976 for Gus Hall, the presidential candidate for the Soviet-controlled American Communist Party. At one of the most important moments of the Cold War, Brennan was rooting for the Reds.
It must have amused Vladimir Putin to see a Gus Hall supporter become a CIA director, who then used that position to peddle Russian disinformation across the government, leading to a crippling investigation of an American president.
In John Brennan lies the story of America’s decline, marked by a generation of radicals who rose to the top of agencies and institutions that they had once tried to destroy. Just a month or so after briefing Obama on Hillary’s plans, Brennan was marketing her smear to compliant senators, such as Nevada’s Harry Reid.
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