{"id":354466,"date":"2018-03-30T02:19:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T01:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=354466"},"modified":"2018-03-30T02:19:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T01:19:35","slug":"john-brennan-voted-communist-1976-entered-cia-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/john-brennan-voted-communist-1976-entered-cia-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"John Brennan Voted Communist in 1976, Then Entered CIA in 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Barack Obama\u2019s CIA chief, John Brennan<\/span><\/a>, told the Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus, on 15 September 2016, in Washington DC<\/span><\/a>, that when he had applied in 1980 to join the CIA, he admitted to them that in the 1976 Presidential election, when Jimmy Carter was running against Gerald Ford, Brennan had voted instead for the candidate of the U.S. Communist Party, Gus Hall, and that he was then greatly relieved to find that this information didn\u2019t cause rejection of his CIA-application. This had happened 11 years before the 1991 end of the Cold War (which ended actually only<\/i> on the Russian side, but not also on the U.S.-NATO side, where it continues without stop<\/span><\/a>, and has accelerated since 2014<\/span><\/a>, now finally being joined by both sides).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Caucus made no mention of Brennan\u2019s having spoken there<\/span><\/a>, nor did the CIA include in its public archives any indication that he had spoken there, though, for example, they did include the complete transcript of \u201cDirector Brennan Delivers Keynote at Miles College\u201d<\/span><\/a> on 13 September 2016, in Birmingham Alabama, at which event he said nothing at all that was newsworthy. (The Miles College event was mentioned by CBS, in this brief video<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore \u2014 though there is online a webpage devoted to, and covering each day of, the 2017 Annual Legislative Conference, on 20-24 September of last year<\/span><\/a> \u2014 the webpage for the 2016 Conference, on September 14th-18th, mentions events only on September 14th and September 17th<\/span><\/a>, as if Brennan hadn\u2019t even appeared there at all. The entire day\u2019s events on September 15th are missing. So: both the Caucus, and the CIA, blacked-out his 15 September 2016 presentation, and the transcript of it isn\u2019t publicly available (nor is any video or audio of it available publicly). <\/span><\/p>\n

However, a little coverage of Brennan\u2019s remarkable statement did appear in the press, first, as a sparse and poorly written news-report on CNN<\/span><\/a> that didn\u2019t even mention where Brennan had made the remark (nor in which year he had voted that way), and, then, finally a week later, in a professionally competent news-report, at Buzzfeed, titled \u201cCongress Doesn’t Really Care That The CIA Chief Once Voted Communist\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and reporting, on September 22nd, that, \u201cBrennan copped to the vote in little-noticed remarks last week [September 15th] at the Congressional Black Caucus\u2019s annual conference. The spy chief spoke of his stomach-turning fear while undergoing the vetting process to be employed at the CIA in 1980 \u2014 strapped to a polygraph during the height of the Cold War,\u201d and \u201cBrennan said he came clean about the his 1976 ballot during the polygraph, expecting it to disqualify him from a clearance. But to the director\u2019s surprise, he was offered admission to the agency, and, nearly 40 years later, landed in the top office.\u201d Furthermore, when Buzzfeed\u2019s reporter, Ali Watkins, asked some U.S. Senators what they thought about Obama\u2019s having selected to run the CIA a man who only a few years prior to joining the CIA had voted for the communist candidate, Gus Hall, none seemed to care. Whereas the war against communism had ended, the war against Russia still has not, and so Senators from both Parties didn\u2019t want to talk about the matter \u2014 didn\u2019t want to draw the public\u2019s attention to the clear fact now, that the ideological excuse for the Cold War had been merely a fake, a rationalization, all along, on the American-NATO side; that the Cold War was never really about communism at all, but about conquest<\/span><\/a>, on the American side \u2014 that Soviet, and then Russian, leaders had been conned<\/span><\/a> into thinking that abandonment of communism and ending the Warsaw Pact mirror to America\u2019s NATO military alliance, would bring peace with The West. Increasingly since 1991<\/span><\/a>, it has been made clear that Russian leaders had been swindled. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013, when the Obama Administration was intensifying its efforts, in conjunction with the Sauds, to replace Russia-allied Syria\u2019s President Bashar al-Assad, the Wall Street Journal<\/i> reported that “Mr. Brennan has been in periodic contact by phone with Prince Bandar\u201d<\/span><\/a>, who until 9\/11 had been personally financing at least two of the 15 Saudis who were among the 19 hijackers\/pilots<\/span><\/a>; and, moreover, Bandar and his brothers were the main funders of Al Qaeda throughout the period leading up to 9\/11<\/span><\/a>. And, furthermore, Bandar had worked with the U.S. Government before Al Qaeda even existed, so as to help Osama bin Laden to set up Al Qaeda<\/span><\/a>, originally against the Soviet Union. (And, now, Al Qaeda is America\u2019s key organization leading Syria\u2019s jihadists to overthrow and replace Syria\u2019s Government<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

On 29 November 2015, Andrew Emett of Activist Post bannered \u201cObama Accepted $1.3M In Gifts Last Year From A Country Who Beheads More People Than ISIS\u201d<\/span><\/a> and he reported and documented that, \u201cAlthough the State Department listed several gifts to CIA Director John Brennan and multiple anonymous agency employees, the donors\u2019 names have been redacted because \u2018such information could adversely affect United States intelligence sources or methods.\u2019 Besides receiving a $10,000 Omega men\u2019s watch, Brennan was also given a $7,500 decorative rug.\u201d And, \u201cthe Saudi king gave President Obama and his family roughly $1.35 million in gifts last year.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Then, on 28 September 2016, Eli Yokley at Morning Consult headlined “Congress Overrides Obama\u2019s Veto of 9\/11 Bill\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported that: <\/span><\/p>\n

“Congress on Wednesday forcibly voted to override President Obama\u2019s veto of legislation that would allow 9\/11 victims\u2019 families to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, despite Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan\u2019s warning of \u201cgrave\u201d risks to American national security if it becomes law. Despite his late plea, the Senate voted 97-1 to override Obama\u2019s veto. … In the House, the override attempt passed in similar fashion, 348 to 77.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Those Senators and Representatives of the Sauds needed to display public support for the victims of 9\/11, but Obama wasn\u2019t running again, so didn\u2019t need to worry. Anyway, the entire 9\/11 case remains in legal limbo now under Trump<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas the Sauds\u2019 main strategic objective, in fulfillment of an agreement the royal Saud family had reached with the fundamentalist-Sunni Wahhab family in 1744, is to defeat Iran and Shia Muslims everywhere<\/span><\/a>, and the Sauds\u2019 secondary objective is ultimately to take over from Russia as being the main source of oil supplying the EU<\/span><\/a>, which is the world\u2019s largest energy-market; the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s main objective is simply to conquer Russia<\/span><\/a>. (Conquering China would then be next, and would complete their plan.)<\/span><\/p>\n

So, on many levels now, it is clear that for the American aristocracy (the people who control America\u2019s Deep State), defeating communism, which had served as its ideological excuse for the Cold War, was just a cover-story. The reality, on America\u2019s side, was always about conquest, which is why the CIA, even at the start, took in and protected so many Nazis. <\/span><\/p>\n

FDR would turn over in his grave, if he knew what came after him<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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