What interests me is why Brennan was so confident at the beginning of this affair that he was willing to go on record making comments like:
>We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.
I mean why would he do this unless there was no risk in his mind that he would ever get caught?
His initial stonewalling and gaslighting were enough to actually induce Feinstein, a career supporter of the Intelligence Community, to get up and make an aggrieved speech excoriating the CIA.
Months later, and no doubt after many backroom talks, Brennan apologizes and kowtows, and then the DoJ conveniently decides that neither the committee staffers nor the CIA can be investigated further. As a member of the public, I am left nonplussed. I can't help but wonder if this whole fiasco was, at it's core, a clash of personalities. Pretty insulting to anyone who actually cares about the principles being breached by the CIA's behaviour.
Again and again we get this pattern of venality, where the officials in charge of protecting everyone's rights only react when their own petty trappings of power and prestige are threatened. Merkel's phone, Feinstein's committee - there is a disgusting trend here.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 21.4 ms ] thread>We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.
I mean why would he do this unless there was no risk in his mind that he would ever get caught?
His initial stonewalling and gaslighting were enough to actually induce Feinstein, a career supporter of the Intelligence Community, to get up and make an aggrieved speech excoriating the CIA.
Months later, and no doubt after many backroom talks, Brennan apologizes and kowtows, and then the DoJ conveniently decides that neither the committee staffers nor the CIA can be investigated further. As a member of the public, I am left nonplussed. I can't help but wonder if this whole fiasco was, at it's core, a clash of personalities. Pretty insulting to anyone who actually cares about the principles being breached by the CIA's behaviour.
Again and again we get this pattern of venality, where the officials in charge of protecting everyone's rights only react when their own petty trappings of power and prestige are threatened. Merkel's phone, Feinstein's committee - there is a disgusting trend here.
More details: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/31/lying/