We have all heard the phrase “need to know”. It is used with regard to sensitive information, and refers to the obvious and self evident principle that the more people know something, the more likely it is to be leaked or revealed.
Now, the CIA Director has an extremely high “need to know”. If they are going to run the outfit, they really need to know everything.
But EX-CIA directors don’t need to know ANYTHING, any more than any other citizen does. They are gone, done, retired. John Brennan has no more need to be able to legally received classified information than I do.
And this would be true if he were sitting quietly at home writing his memoirs, but it is PARTICULARLY true when this asshole is using the credibility of the CIA–such that it is, apparently, among some–to attack the duly elected President of the United States as a traitor.
What is particularly egregious about this, is that the very rumors and innuendos he is referencing–the accusations amount to nothing more, which is why Mueller keeps digging–are KNOWN BY HIM TO BE FALSE.
He is using lies to launch baseless attacks, which seek to destabilize our democracy. This is the CIA operating in America. This is the CIA using the tools it has used for many years to destabilize other nations, being deployed here.
This, clinically, is treason. We are not technically at war, but that Brennan’s effort is to delegitimate the people as the ultimate source of power is unambiguous. That he seeks a “regime change” through disinformation is obvious.
And that CNN, MSNBC and others act as propaganda organs is made clear in their treatment of this issue. They act as if some important principle is in play, that our very democracy depends on Brennan keeping his security clearance.
At long last, America, have you no fucking brains?