Let me be very direct regarding the stripping of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. It was long overdue and no one has any “right” to a clearance. None of the folks spending a lifetime of honest work in the intelligence world retains a clearance after leaving and neither should the director, which knows far less than career operatives. In fact, Brennan never should have had a clearance and the only contact he should have had with our intelligence community is if he was a subject of collection for anti-American activities. This is not debatable. The only question to settle now is who is next.
Brennan is and always has been a hostile anti-American activist. The fact that Brennan is a proud, self-admitted communist that supported Soviet activities during the height of the Cold War should have landed him in jail. Instead, because of the remarkable corruption and penetration of communists to the most senior echelons of our society, he was appointed to be the head of the CIA. This coup should have been an alarm sounding defeat for liberty and our Republic, yet not a word of dissent or outrage was publicly raised. The CIA’s entire existence could be summed up by a mission to battle the communist ideology, but instead, communist “s” (Yes, Leon Panetta also had close Soviet/Russian ties and many links to the Marxist ideology…like being named Leon after Trotsky.) were put in charge and the ranks purged and stocked with radical left-wing ideologues. Not only was Brennan put in charge of the agency allegedly created to defeat his exact ideology, but the political elites, media, and rank and file CIA officers applauded his appointment leaving no doubt about how thoroughly penetrated our society had become by Communists in a true McCarthyist sense. Now, they vociferously chastise President Trump for what has proved to be phony Russian collusion. How rich? The organization that was run by Soviet loving communists and was instrumental in the creation of the fake Russian Dossier through actual collusion with Russians is pointing fingers at President Trump.
Let’s not also forget that Brennan is a perjurer and one of the most disastrous directors in memory. In particular, he repeatedly lied about his knowledge and involvement in the CIA’s computer hacking and spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee. This was one of the most egregious violations of our separations of powers in recent memory, but he was allowed to walk away with his clearance and job by then President Obama. The man also managed to preside over numerous massive intelligence failures to include misreading and actually supporting the emergence of ISIS, losing all of our CIA agents in China, failing to prevent the claimed Russian meddling in our elections, losing Crimea, allowing North Korea to go nuclear, and just about 100 other noteworthy disasters. As mentioned before, he also lied about his knowledge and involvement in the creation of the fake Russian Dossier. If not bad enough, he also tried to destroy the careers of the members of the CIA’s Global Response Staff or GRS for not covering up the Libya disaster and had their clearances stripped. In fact, one of the heroes of “13 Hours” in Benghazi was Chris Paronto who recently gave an outstanding interview to Fox blasting Brennan and his circle of elitist thugs. I urge everyone to view it here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/17/special-ops-shoot-down-brennan-and-his-defenders-put-your-politics-before-us.html
Brennan without question deserved to have his clearance stripped. He also deserves to be in jail, but what about the others? Who is next? I would argue it should be all of them. No one, irrespective of party, should be retaining a clearance after they have left the billet requiring their need to know. This is the definition of the “Swamp.” Keeping a clearance as a senior appointee is a perk or benefit for elites not afforded to the actual people doing the hard work, developing the expertise, and briefing them so that they can make a decision. These elites ingratiate themselves to this highly sensitive intelligence for one purpose and one purpose only and that is to retain power. This information is monetized in many ways that has nothing to do with national security and in fact directly undermines national security. Often, I would argue it is then funneled back to their political friends to solidify their power. Further, this intelligence is often used for insider trading. Did you ever wonder why many of these former directors end up at hedge funds knowing nothing about investment or portfolio management? Let’s put it this way, wouldn’t it be nice to know the exact date of a planned attack in the Middle East so you could buy oil futures. I think so and apparently Wall Street and many others do to. This is criminal and needs to stop.
President Trump is right to revoke Brennan’s clearance, but he would be wrong to stop there. The Swamp does need to be drained and one of the easiest things he can do right now is to revoke every clearance being held by someone not actually serving in a need to know billet. The benefits of cutting the flow of money and intelligence to these enemies of the Republic can’t be understated. If President Trump is wise, he will push for this and to make it law so that the second a new administration comes in this isn’t all overturned.
By Guiles Hendrik
August 17, 2018
