Wake Me Up When Durham Actually Indicts Somebody

So, the guy who voted for a communist for President of the United States of America in 1980 is being closely scrutinized by United States Attorney John Durham.  Not for that. No.

Brennan literally cast a vote for Gus Hall, the Kremlin’s man in Washington, to become the next president.  That was the year Ronald Reagan challenged incumbent President Jimmy Carter.

When Brennan was asked a standard question (Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to the overthrow of the United States?) for a security clearance when applying for a job with the CIA, Brennan recalled at an annual conference for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation that he “froze”.  “This was back in 1980 and I thought back to a previous election where I voted for the Communist Party candidate,” said Brennan.

In pre-Obama America that little tidbit would have been a sure-fire disqualifier.

So, here we are today and U.S. Attorney John Durham’s criminal investigation into the origins of the FBI’s ”Russia investigation” is “taking a close look” at former Obama CIA Director John Brennan.

The New York Times reported, “He wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former FBI Director James B. Comey, about his and the CIA’s views of a notorious dossier of assertions about Russia and Trump associates.”

Durham is also reportedly taking a close look at whether Brennan made contradictory statements between his private and public remarks about the anti-Trump Steele dossier and about “any debate among the intelligence agencies over their conclusions on Russia’s interference” in the 2016 presidential election.

Brennan was CIA Director during President Trump's transition into the White House and left office the same day he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017.

Once out of Langley, Comrade Brennan tore into the President, accusing him of “treason” (among other crimes) in countless television appearances and bitter tweets. It got so vicious the President ordered the revocation of his security clearance.

This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent. https://t.co/TNzOxhP9ux

— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) August 15, 2018

In addition, the Administration pulled clearances for former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former FBI attorney Lisa Page, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whose security clearance was deactivated after he was fired and Bruce Ohr, who is still in the Justice Department.

Part of the President’s statement reads:

“Mr. Brennan has a history that calls into question his objectivity and credibility. In 2014, for example, he denied to Congress that CIA officials under his supervision had improperly accessed the computer files of congressional staffers. He told the Council of Foreign Relations that the CIA would never do such a thing. The CIA’s Inspector General, however, contradicted Mr. Brennan directly, concluding unequivocally that agency officials had indeed improperly accessed congressional staffers’ files.” 

“More recently, Mr. Brennan told Congress that the Intelligence Community did not make use of the so-called Steele Dossier in an assessment regarding the 2016 election, an assertion contradicted by at least two other senior officials in the Intelligence Community and all of the facts. Additionally, Mr. Brennan has recently leveraged his status as a former high-ranking official with access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations – wild outbursts on the internet and television – about this Administration. Mr. Brennan’s lying and recent conduct, characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary, is wholly inconsistent with access to the Nation’s most closely held secrets and facilitates the very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos.”

You’ll pardon me for being highly skeptical about Durham’s criminal investigation into the unprecedented FBI probe of a presidential campaign, the egregious abuse of law enforcement responsible for an attempted silent coup and three years of media and political hysteria.

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