Brennan is an incredible hack. He's been caught lying repeatedly. He routinely politicized intelligence. He sought to silence dissenting intel voices. Whatever you think about Trump's decision, it's a mistake to lionize a political hack.
When Brennan was CIA Director, his agency presented unnecessary NDAs to Benghazi survivors -- at a memorial service for their fallen comrades. An ugly attempt to silence them.
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The CIA, at Brennan's direction, kept hidden the documents captured during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. Not coincidentally, those documents badly undermined the Obama administration position on al Qaeda, Iran, jihadism, etc. weeklystandard.com/stephen-f-haye…
In 2012, six months before the election, Brennan gave a speech claiming that Obama's policy would lead to the "demise" of al Qaeda within a decade. It was an absurd argument at the time -- more absurd today.
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Don't like Trump's decision to revoke Brennan's security clearance? Fine. I don't either. It was vindictive and petty. But don't pretend Brennan was a disinterested, apolitical IC leader. He wasn't. He was a hack then -- and he's a hack now.
