{"id":374418,"date":"2018-08-22T14:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-the-real-john-brennan-please-stand-up\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T14:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T13:30:13","slug":"will-the-real-john-brennan-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-the-real-john-brennan-please-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Real John Brennan Please Stand Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The battle between many former intelligence chiefs and the White House is becoming a gift that keeps on giving to the mass media, which is characteristically deeply immersed in Trump derangement syndrome in attacking the president for his having\u00a0stripped<\/a>\u00a0former CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance. One of the\u00a0most ludicrous claims<\/a>, cited in the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0on Sunday, was that the Trump move was intended to \u201cstifle free speech.\u201d While I am quite prepared to believe a lot of things about the serial maladroit moves and explanations coming out of the White House, how one equates removing Brennan\u2019s security clearance to compromising his ability to speak freely escapes me. Indeed, Brennan has been speaking out with his usual vitriol nearly everywhere in the media ever since he lost the clearance, rather suggesting that his loss has given him a platform which has actually served to enhance his ability to speak his mind. He should thank Donald Trump for that.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Brennan\u2019s retaining a Top Secret code word clearance had nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with enhancing his market value for those poor sods who actually pay him to mouth off as an \u201cexpert\u201d on television and in the newspapers. Are you listening\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0NBC<\/em>? Brennan\u2019s clearance did not mean that he had any real insight into current intelligence on anything, having lost that access when he left his job with the government. It only meant that he could sound authoritative and well informed by relying on his former status, enabling him to con you media folks out of your money on a recurrent basis.<\/p>\n


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The battle between many former intelligence chiefs and the White House is becoming a gift that keeps on giving to the mass media, which is characteristically deeply immersed in Trump derangement syndrome in attacking the president for his having\u00a0stripped\u00a0former CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance. One of the\u00a0most ludicrous claims, cited in the\u00a0Washington […]<\/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-374418","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\/374418","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=374418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}