{"id":1431730,"date":"2022-04-11T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431730"},"modified":"2022-04-11T19:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T23:15:12","slug":"disgraced-former-cia-chief-john-brennan-joins-secretive-firm-staffing-biden-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disgraced-former-cia-chief-john-brennan-joins-secretive-firm-staffing-biden-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced Former CIA Chief John Brennan Joins &#039;Secretive&#039; Firm Staffing Biden White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisgraced-former-cia-chief-john-brennan-joins-secretive-firm-staffing-biden-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431730&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">John O. Brennan, the former CIA director whose security clearance was revoked by President Donald Trump, has joined the WestExec Advisors, a \u201csecretive consulting firm\u201d whose alumni hold posts throughout President Joe Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/11\/23\/westexec-advisors-biden-cabinet-440072\">described<\/a> as \u201cBiden\u2019s Cabinet in waiting\u201d by\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em> after the 2020 presidential election, employed Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, and many others. <em>Politico\u00a0<\/em>noted:\u00a0\u201cWestExec is loaded with other former top Democratic national security and foreign policy officials who raised money for the Biden campaign, have joined his transition team, or have served as unofficial advisers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a press statement Monday,\u00a0WestExec <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/john-o-brennan-former-director-101500570.html?soc_src=social-sh&#038;soc_trk=tw&#038;tsrc=twtr\">announced<\/a>: \u201cJohn O. Brennan has joined the firm\u2019s distinguished and growing team as Principal. As Principal at WestExec, he will advise on strategy and geopolitical risk, and help clients capitalize on key business opportunities and navigate the world\u2019s most pressing challenges.\u201d He is described as an \u201cexceptional public servant.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brennan, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2018\/jul\/19\/ron-desantis\/was-john-brennan-once-member-communist-party\/\">voted<\/a> for a communist presidential candidate in 1976, is one of the originators of the \u201cRussia collusion\u201d hoax, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/05\/23\/brennan-russia-house-intelligence-late-july-liberal-media\/\">launching<\/a> an investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016. CIA documents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/06\/declassified-cia-documents-reveal-brennan-briefed-obama-on-clintons-plan-to-tie-trump-to-russia\/\">released<\/a> by the Trump administration in 2020 suggested Brennan had briefed then-President Barack Obama about an apparent plot by Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign to tie Trump to Russian hacking. (The plot was allegedly suggested by Jake Sullivan, now Biden\u2019s National Security Advisor.)<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Trump presidency, Brennan expressed outrage at the new administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnBrennan\/status\/1018885971104985093\">calling<\/a> Trump\u2019s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018 \u201cnothing short of treasonous\u201d after Trump publicly doubted the U.S. intelligence committee\u2019s conclusion that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election. He also demanded that Trump be impeached. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/08\/15\/trump-revokes-john-brennans-security-clearance\/\">revoked<\/a> his security clearance \u2014 citing, among other things, the CIA\u2019s past spying on Democratic staffers.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, Brennan joined a group of 50 former intelligence officials who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/10\/19\/clapper-brennan-hunter-biden-emails-russian-disinformation-whether-genuine-or-not\/\">wrote<\/a> an open letter declaring that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely Russian disinformation, though they admitted they had no evidence to prove that it was.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop, which tied then-candidate Biden to his son\u2019s overseas business dealings, has since been acknowledged as real by the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Washington\u00a0<\/em><i>Post<\/i>, and CNN. Brennan has never apologized for misleading the American electorate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John O. 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