{"id":370523,"date":"2018-07-23T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/john-brennan-melting-down-and-covering-up\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:33:31","slug":"john-brennan-melting-down-and-covering-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/john-brennan-melting-down-and-covering-up\/","title":{"rendered":"John Brennan, Melting Down and Covering Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It isn\u2019t a pretty face, but one scarred from a dark past, repackaged now by the frenzy of \u201cresistance.\u201d Accusing Donald Trump recklessly, implying he knows more than he lets on, promising redemption: John Brennan is the face of American politics in 2018.<\/p>\n

But before all that, Brennan lived in a hole about as far down into the deep state as one can dwell while still having eyes that work in the sunlight. He was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was Obama\u2019s counterterrorism advisor, helping the president decide who to kill every week, including American citizens. He spent 25 years at the CIA, and helped shape the violent policies of the post-9\/11 Bush era. He was a fan of torture and extrajudicial killing to the point that a 2012 profile of him was entitled, \u201cThe Seven Deadly Sins of John Brennan.\u201d Another writer called Brennan \u201cthe most lethal bureaucrat of all time, or at least since Henry Kissinger.\u201d Today, however, a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0puff piece sweeps all that away as a \u201ctroubling inheritance.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Twitter this week, Brennan cartoonishly declaimed, \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors. It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump\u2019s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Because it is 2018, Brennan was never asked to explain exactly how a press conference exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors the Constitution sets for impeachment, nor was he asked to lay a few cards on the table showing what Putin has on Trump. No, Brennan is a man of his times, all bluster and noise, knowing…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It isn\u2019t a pretty face, but one scarred from a dark past, repackaged now by the frenzy of \u201cresistance.\u201d Accusing Donald Trump recklessly, implying he knows more than he lets on, promising redemption: John Brennan is the face of American politics in 2018. But before all that, Brennan lived in a hole about as far […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}