John Brennan, in my view, almost certainly masterminded the Steele Dossier. Getting things done behind the scenes without leaving too many obvious fingerprints is the MO of the CIA, and I’ve never seen any reason at all to doubt his intelligence or competence. Merely his loyalty, and I think he has shown that his loyalty is neither to the Constitution nor our way of life. Once you view the CIA as a KGB organ, the fact that he voted Communist in 1976, admitted it, and STILL rose to direct the Agency makes perfect sense.
And this “whistleblower”: all the accounts I read fail to mention how this individual came by the details of a private conversation our President had with a foreign leader. He (or she) does not seem to have been in the room, leaving me with the obvious conclusion that our spy agency is not only operating domestically, and not only are they eavesdropping on our President (and presumably other senior leaders), but they are actively MINING that data for politically damaging material.
Nothing farther from the spirit of representative democracy could be imagined. This agency probably needs to be abolished and rebuilt from the ground up. The FBI has become the means, but the CIA dictates, so it seems to me, the ends.
If this stuff doesn’t make you a bit dizzy, then I don’t think you are understanding what I am saying, or the wealth of evidence in support of my views which is already in the public and undisputed domain.