{"id":1931828,"date":"2023-05-16T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-a-healthy-democracy-john-brennan-would-already-be-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T11:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:48:21","slug":"in-a-healthy-democracy-john-brennan-would-already-be-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-a-healthy-democracy-john-brennan-would-already-be-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Brennan should be in jail in a healthy democracy."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fin-a-healthy-democracy-john-brennan-would-already-be-in-prison%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=1931828&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--><h2>The Durham Report Confirms FBI Failure to Corroborate Steele Dossier<\/h2>\n<p>The just-released Durham report confirms what many have suspected for years: the FBI failed to corroborate the Steele dossier, Hillary Clinton\u2019s oppo-doc against Donald Trump. Not only that, but the FBI regularly ignored existing, sometimes dispositive, evidence to keep the investigation alive. Some officials were credulous, others devious. But no one \u201cstole\u201d our democracy \u2014 other than perhaps intelligence officials and the journalists who helped feed the collective hysteria over Russia.<\/p>\n<h3>John Brennan: A Hamas-Loving Authoritarian and Partisan Propagandist<\/h3>\n<p>John Brennan, the former CIA Director, almost surely knew the Steele dossier was a con from the start. Yet he spent four years on television sounding like a deranged subreddit commenter. Even after privately admitting he knew there was no collusion, Brennan kept lying and using his credentials to mislead the public.<\/p>\n<p>From Durham\u2019s report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CIA Director John Brennan and Deputy Director David Cohen were interviewed by the Office and were asked about their knowledge of any actual evidence of members of the Trump campaign conspiring or colluding with Russian officials. When Brennan was provided with an overview of the origins of the Attorney General\u2019s Review after Special Counsel Mueller finding a lack of evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian authorities, Brennan offered that \u201cthey found no conspiracy.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Durham points out, even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report, and after Brennan admitted no one found a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, the former head of the CIA went on with MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough, another all-star election \u201cdenier,\u201d and claimed that he \u201csuspected there was more\u201d to collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin than Mueller had let on.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention this was the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency?<\/p>\n<h3>Brennan\u2019s Abuse of Power and Access<\/h3>\n<p>Brennan must have been relying on that same gut instinct that led him to sign a letter asserting that the New York Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop scoop, a journalistic effort with more corroboration than virtually anything connected to Trump\u2019s alleged \u201ccollusion,\u201d had \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House Judiciary Committee recently uncovered an Oct. 19, 2020, email from CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who was working with the Biden campaign to concoct \u201ca talking point\u201d to \u201cpush back on Trump\u201d during the final presidential debates, asking Brennan to sign on to the \u201cdisinformation\u201d letter. \u201cOk, Michael, add my name to the list. Good initiative. Thanks for asking me to sign on,\u201d was Brennan\u2019s reply.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all it takes for the former CIA director, a man who was given immense unchecked power \u2014 a man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-a-healthy-democracy-john-brennan-would-already-be-in-prison\/\" title=\"Brennan should be in jail in a healthy democracy.\">oversaw secret kill lists<\/a> and was the driving force behind drone strikes on civilians (including an American citizen) \u2014 to sign a letter he knew would obstruct the workings of \u201cdemocracy\u201d and the free press.<\/p>\n<p>This is a man who still has access to classified documents. You might remember all the hand-wringing over broken norms when Trump allegedly barred intelligence agencies from sharing classified information with Brennan. The New York Times even gave him a column to argue that Trump\u2019s claims of \u201cno collusion\u201d were \u201cwhy the president revoked my security clearance,\u201d which, again, he almost certainly knew was a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Brennan should have been denied access to any classified material and driven into exile after he was caught overseeing an operation of illegal spying on staffers in the Senate. CIA officials broke into Senate computer files and viewed emails and drafts of a report on torture. All of it was illegal. Brennan covered up the agency\u2019s actions (also illegal), blamed the Senate, and pushed to fire at least one staffer who was tasked with investigating his agency.<\/p>\n<p>All this happened when the tan-suited Obama was in charge, so most people probably missed it.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until the CIA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-treasury-department-targets-florida-gov-desantis-over-migrant-flights\/\" title=\"Biden Treasury Department Targets Florida Gov. DeSantis Over Migrant Flights\">inspector general confirmed<\/a> this wrongdoing that Brennan began negotiating with the lily-livered senators about owning up to the spying. Even then, Brennan was lying. When asked about the CIA hacking into Senate computers at an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations, Brennan responded by saying, \u201cNothing could be further from the truth.\u201d Nothing? \u201cI mean, we wouldn\u2019t do that,\u201d he went on. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s just beyond the \u2014 you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do.\u201d Brennan went on to say: \u201cLet me assure you the CIA was in no way spying on [the committee] or the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration backed Brennan fully, and the Senate moved on. No one put him under oath and grilled him about the specifics. As with the FBI interference in the 2016 election, not one person was held accountable for domestic spying, much less fired.<\/p>\n<p>Not that my voices matters very much, but this is probably the first time in 20 years of writing \u2014 and I\u2019ve written thousands of columns and millions of published words \u2014 that I\u2019ve wondered why a public official isn\u2019t in prison. Brennan has abused his position, power, and access with impunity for years. He deserves a bright orange jumpsuit. Yet we also all know he\u2019ll never be held accountable either. So, at the very least, let\u2019s hope he can be disgraced.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abandoned-all-pretense-of-being-conservative-jonah-goldberg-joins-cnn-as-a-commentator-social-media-erupts\/\" title=\"\u2018Abandoned All Pretense Of Being Conservative\u2019: Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN As A Commentator, Social Media Erupts\">nationally syndicated columnist<\/a>, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books\u2014the most recent, Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent. Follow him on Twitter, @davidharsanyi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Durham report revealed that the FBI disregarded evidence and failed to verify the Steele dossier, which was Hillary Clinton&#8217;s opposition document against Donald Trump. The investigation was sustained by some gullible and deceitful officials. However, no one &#8220;stole&#8221; democracy except for intelligence officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1931829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8358,5521,8700,5471],"class_list":["post-1931828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-brennan","tag-democracy","tag-healthy","tag-jail"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}