- Comm-symp who headed CIA now implicated in trashing the changing of the guard
- Speculation as to why Trump accepted National Security Advisor Flynn’s resignation
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Interesting piece in the American Spectator: essentially the story speculates that John Brennan, the thankfully ‘gone’ CIA Director was the principal “leaker” which ultimately claimed the role of General Flynn as President Trump’s principal national security advisor.
Brennan has always been a dodgy fellow…a ‘quality’ which no doubt went a long way in gaining Barack Obama’s confidence and impulse to name him to the arguably most sensitive position in the US government.
It’s long been alleged that Brennan is a convert to Islam from when he served with the CIA in the Middle East. Certainly he has shown some affinity for many aspects of Islam, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and has been one of the Obama administration’s leading figures loathe to even consider the concept of “Islamist terrorism”.
But that a reflects a fundamental characteristic of John Brennan. With him it’s a history of, “I used to be but I’m not now”. A striking, and chilling, example cited in the AS piece goes back to his “college days” when he was an admitted supporter of the Communist party during the Cold War. When applying for a CIA job, however, Brennan claimed to no longer be, and was never a member of the Communist party ( we’d suggest that ultimately he found a high niche in the next best thing, a far left Obama Democratic party regime!).
And, now an inside/outside operative working to undermine and ultimately overthrow a duly elected administration?
Will the former CIA director be hoist by his own petard?
Flynn in communicating with the Russians prior to taking office did nothing wrong in doing so or in what he discussed with them. That is, according to what we are told, a conclusion of the FBI and repeated by leakers as reported by NPR. Trump is stylistically on record.
Trump: I didn’t order Flynn to talk sanctions with the Russians — but I would have if he hadn’t
Since we have to choose which of 80,000 different newsy bits this afternoon was the newsiest, let’s choose two in which Trump discussed the story of the week, Mike Flynn’s resignation. His first point below was something he could have said days ago. No, he claims, he never ordered Flynn to talk sanctions with the Russian ambassador — but he would have if Flynn hadn’t taken it upon himself to do so, never mind all the heavy breathing lately by critics about the Logan Act. If Trump had come out and said that on Monday, making the case that there was nothing improper about an incoming national security advisor noting to a diplomat that U.S. foreign policy would be duly reviewed in three weeks, Flynn might still have his job, especially since there’s apparently no quid-pro-quo smoking gun in the transcript of what he said to the ambassador. So … why didn’t Trump say all of this sooner while refusing Flynn’s resignation? The answer, in case you missed it yesterday, probably lies in this post. Trump, Bannon, Priebus, and Kushner allegedly all had doubts about Flynn and his way of operating for various reasons dating back weeks, at least. (Kushner reportedly was anti-Flynn since before he was named NSA.) Trump says in the first clip below that he let Flynn go because he deceived Mike Pence,
There is more speculation in the article but we suspect that it probably amounts to no more than the above.
DLH with R Mall
