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We offer another guest post by a respected writer with the
expertise for critical comment.
Charles Faddis is a retired CIA operations and case officer, and
the author of “Beyond Repair: The Decline And Fall Of The CIA“.
the author of “Beyond Repair: The Decline And Fall Of The CIA“.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. BRENNAN
By Charles Faddis
Published in andmagazine.com [July 24, 2018]
Obama and his CIA Director John Brennan
Dear Mr. Brennan,
I understand that you are a political opponent of the current President of the United States.
I understand that you are an American citizen, and you have the right to freedom of speech.
I encourage you to utilize that right. I encourage you to speak your mind.
I encourage you, as I do all Americans, to be heard.
I implore you, however, to cease and desist from continuing to attempt to portray yourself in the public media as some sort of impartial critic concerned only with the fate of the republic.
I beg you to stop attempting to portray yourself as some sort of wise, all-knowing intelligence professional with deep knowledge of national security issues and no political inclinations whatsoever.
None of this is true!
You were never a spy.
You were never a case officer.
You never ran operations or recruited sources or worked the streets abroad.
You have no idea whatsoever of the true nature of the business of human intelligence.
You have never been in harm’s way.
You have never heard a shot fired in anger.
You were, for a short while, an intelligence analyst.
In that capacity, it was your job to produce finished intelligence based on basic intelligence provided to you by others.
The work of intelligence analysts is important; however in truth you never truly mastered this trade either. In your capacity as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, while still a junior officer, you were designated to brief the President of the United States who was, at that time, Bill Clinton.
As the presidential briefer, it was your job to read to the President, each morning, finished intelligence, written by others, based on intelligence collected by yet other individuals.
Period.
While serving as presidential briefer, you established a personal relationship with then President Bill Clinton.
End of story.
Everything that has transpired in your professional career since has been based on your personal relationship with the former President, his wife, Hillary, and their key associates.
Your connection to President Obama was, in fact, based on you having established yourself by the time he came to office as a reliable, highly political Democratic Party functionary.
All of your commentary in the public sphere is on behalf of your political patrons.
It is no more impartial analysis than would be the comments of a paid press spokesman or attorney. You are speaking each and every time directly on behalf of political forces hostile to this President.
You are, in fact, currently on the payroll of both NBC and MSNBC, two of the networks most vocally opposed to President Trump and his agenda.
There is no impartiality in your comments.
Your assessments are not based on some sober judgment of what is best for this nation.
They are based exclusively on what you believe to be in the best interests of the politicians with whom you have long since allied yourself.
It should be noted that not only are you, most decidedly, not apolitical, but that you have been associated during your career with some of the greatest foreign policy disasters in recent American history.
As CIA Director for Barack Obama you:
1) Presided over the Iran nuclear deal, which allowed Iran to escape from decades of containment and set the Middle East on fire.
2) Watched while Russia annexed Crimea and then reestablished itself as a hostile force in the Middle East.
3) Dithered and tinkered with organizational wiring diagrams at CIA Headquarters while China annexed and fortified the entire South China Sea.
The extent to which you are tied directly to the Clintons, Barack Obama and the Democrat Party is clearly evident in the emotional nature of your recent commentary.
Ever since President Trump was elected, there has been a concerted effort to delegitimize him and destabilize him. This has been an unprecedented attempt to undermine the stability of the Republic in order to achieve partisan political advantage.
You and your patrons have been complicit in this effort and at its very heart.
Now as the Mueller investigation collapses of its own weight and the extent of this conspiracy is beginning to become clear you are in evident panic.
You should be.
You are free to do as you wish politically.
Stop representing to the American people that there is anything else at play.
You abandoned any hope of being a true intelligence professional decades ago and became a political hack.
Say so!
Meanwhile, Senator Rand Paul’s assessment of you stands:
“John Brennan started out his adulthood by voting for the Communist Party presidential candidate. He’s now ending his career by showing himself to be the most biased, bigoted, over-the-top, hyperbolic sort of unhinged director the CIA ever had.”
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Ed Note:
Having served with the CIA as a Case Officer, a guerrilla advisor, and as Regional Intelligence Advisor in Asia (1970-74), and having received, among other forms of recognition, the DCI Exceptional Intelligence Analyst Award, we feel qualified to add a few comments on Mr Brennan, based on both personal knowledge as well as feedback from colleagues in the CIA, DIA, FBI, DEA, and other IC agencies.
1) Mr Brennan first came to our attention when we observed him as the analyst at CIA's Terrorist Desk, which, at that time, was the lowest and least respected position in the analytical chain. He was then, as now, regarded as a simpleton, but, in that position, no one felt he could do harm. His co-workers had nothing positive to say about him. We all assumed he was a protected entity as his incompetence demanded he be fired, much the same as Bob Gates was viewed during his early years at CIA.
2) Dysfunctional and incompetent as an analyst, Brennan was inexplicably bumped up as an assistant briefer at the White House, again, presumably a position in which he could do no harm.
3) Alarm bells began going off when the professional Intelligence Community noticed he was was providing the Print Media opinion pieces on Intelligence - while a member of the Intelligence Community! This was a first, and an appalling breach of security as well as ethics for any officer still active in the IC.
4) Still, he toadied up to Bill Clinton, who recognized Brennan as a "useful idiot", and potential tool for the future.
5) When W arrived on the scene as the new POTUS, he recognized Brennan as a very useful tool, particularly in endorsing the bogus 9/11 scenario, pointing fingers at the IC for its failure. Not mentioned was the fact that the precise details of the attack had surfaced in a police raid in the Philippines as well as by several other elements of the IC -- and all reports were stifled. But, Brennan was quite willing to toady up to Bush in recounting the official version of the "attack" on the Twin Towers, in spite of the challenges to the story by highly experienced engineers who viewed the destruction of the Twin Towers as a carefully constructed "implosion".
6) And, like Bob Gates, he was well rewarded, and, without operational experience or CIA backing, Brennan was appointed as the Chief of Station in Saudi Arabia, coordinating with the Saudi Intelligence on US Intelligence, and ignoring the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East.
7) Although young toadies feel Brennan had some credibility, experienced professionals felt that Brennan had been emplaced from Day One by the Deep State to ascend to the highest level of the CIA in order to bolster as "Intelligence Community Fact" whatever nonsense was proposed by other IC leaders.
We understand both their names are on several of the 50,000+ sealed indictments which will be served up in September.
We trust they will be comfortable in their Gitmo cells.
