Electric Farm Vehicles

US Farmer and His Tools

The following was extracted from the referenced blogpost cited here:     

[April 28, 2022/by Royal A. Brown III]

I am reposting it here to ensure it gets broad coverage 

and to be republished repeatedly by others.

For those of you that think electric vehicles are the answer- this is a true story from a farmer in the Midwest.

A close friend farms over 10,000 acres of corn in the Mid-West. The property is spread out over 3 counties. 

$750,000 Harvester

His operation is a "partnership farm" with tractor manufacturer John Deere. 

They use the larger farm operations as demonstration projects for promotion and development of new equipment. 

He recently received a phone call from his John Deere representative, and they want the farm to go to electric tractors and combines in 2023. He currently has five diesel combines that cost $900,000 each that are traded in every three years. 

Also, over 10 really BIG tractors.

John Deere wants him to go all electric soon!

He said: 

"Ok, I have some questions. 

1) How do I charge these combines when they are three counties away from the shop in the middle of a cornfield, in the middle of nowhere?" 

2) "How do I run them 24 hours a day for 10 or 12 days straight when the harvest is ready, and the weather is coming in?" 

3) "How do I get a 50,000+ lb. combine that takes up the width of an entire road back to the shop 20 miles away when the battery goes dead?"

There was dead silence on the other end of the phone.

When the corn is ready to harvest, it has to have the proper sugar and moisture content. 

  1) If it is too wet, it has to be put in giant dryers that burn natural or propane gas, and lots of it. 

 

Corn to be harvested

2) Harvest time is critical because if it degrades in sugar content or quality, it can drop the value of his crop by half a million dollars or more. It is analyzed at the time of sale.  

 

 3) It is standard procedure to run these machines 10 to 12 days straight, 24 hours a day at peak harvest time. When they need fuel, a tanker truck delivers it, and the machines keep going.

John Deere's only answer is "We're working on it." 

They are being pushed by the lefty Dems in the government to force these electric machines on the American farmer. These people are out of control. They are messing with the production of food crops that feed people and livestock... all in the name of their "green dream."

Look for the cost of your box of cornflakes to triple in the next 24 months...”

Ed Note:

Amish Farmers: Family Tradition

We've met a number of farmers in Indiana, including Amish, who've dedicated their lives to growing food for America.  

For the most part, it's a mission rather than a profitable enterprise.  They've worked hard all their lives, and they're finding it to be a pretty thankless job.

Currently, many of these farmers are being forced out of business by greedy local governments who find multiple ways to fine them and create new laws to restrict their production.  This, of course, makes no sense until you "follow the money".

We Need a Bigger Tax Base

Local governments are determined to maximize their income by creating new housing developments with thousands of homes paying real estate taxes, plus, homeowners who will pay taxes on income and property.

Topping off these restrictive practices, local governments are now doing away with farming incentives, which include tax-exempt land for farming.

Seasonal Farm Workers

One of the practices imposed by the federal governments is to eliminate seasonal "farm workers", i.e., the folks who work in both the planting and harvesting season to support the farmers.  They make a decent income, and shift into other jobs for the rest of the year.

This year, one of our Amish friends reported that his seasonal workers, on whom he's depended for decades, were unavailable.  They told him [and showed him a federal check] stating the federal government was now paying them $3,000 per month to NOT WORK!  

Unharvested Corn

Thus, lots of the crops were not planted, and many grown crops were left unharvested.

Farm Boy Sells Dad's Farm - Gets Rich

Another factor is the farmers' children find farming burdensome and uninspiring, and leave home for "the big city", waiting for their parents to retire or die - allowing them to sell the property and buy new cars and have lots of cash to spend on casinos or a high life style.

And now, we have huge corporations buying up thousands of acres of farmland.

Gates: Largest Farmland Owner

Bill Gates alone now owns 242,000 acres worth $690 million.  

Foreign countries, 

e.g., China and Saudi Arabia, are also buying up US farmland, driving up the price of an acre from $400 to $8,000 an acre.

Give this some thought and keep track of such news, particularly as we find ourselves in a contrived "food shortage" situation.

Covid 19 - Revealed

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Have you ever wondered how the global CV19 pandemic came to be?

 If we were guessing, this is how we would game it. 

Create a Global Pandemic Exercise simulation on 18 Oct 2019 

and call it Event 201 at the 

Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Security at Johns Hopkins University 

to be sponsored by [Drum Roll]: 

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.   

And then, implement the simulation in real time:

1) November 2019:     Release rumors of a Chinese SARS epidemic; 

2) December 2019:      Claim the Chinese FLU was actually a Covid strain; 

3) January 2020:          Claim "virus" had escaped from the CCP Wu Han biological warfare center 

4) January 2020:          Claim "Covid virus" spread via "bat" meat sold in local Chinese markets

5) January 17 2020:      Joint Call to action by all organizations

6) January 17 2020       Gates Foundation to call for Public-Private cooperation for Pandemic Response

7) February 2020:         Infect the thousands of Chinese leather workers with the Chinese FLU 

                                      who commute from Wu Han China to northern Italy [where they would 

                                      claim they had the Covid Strain

8) Have NBC Universal News and Bloomberg coordinate the publication of the Covid19 rumors as

                                       truth, throughout the global media with support by the game players 

1) Avril Haines  PsyOp planning

2) George Fu Gao  Gaming the Chinese biological warfare role.

3) Rear Admiral Stephen C. Redd  Gaming the US response and "prevention" process

 

4)  Hasti Taghi  NBC Universal representative Coordinating global news releases 

5)  Matthew Harrington  Coordinating Global Public Relations for Covid compliance

6)  Eduardo Martinez  Coordinates Global shipping for all players

7)  M Knuchell

Here's the background on these Exercise power players:

1) Avril Danica Haines: 

Deputy Director in 0bama's CIA; 

she has a history of prisoner torture, 

so she knows how CIA would manage this 

- if she had any linkage to CIA.

[But wait, she's now Biden's 

      Director of National Intelligence!] 

While CIA Deputy Director, her officers hacked the 

Senate Intelligence Committee's computers to destroy 

evidence of CIA torture operations; she dismissed the IG findings

and awarded her officers commendation medals for their crimes.

She  directed her "Killer Drones" to target both civilians and Military.

As DNI [Director of National Intelligence, she's in a key 

position to have the US Intelligence Community manage 

the propagandnecessary to continue to manipulate the 

global population adherance to regional directives, 

lockdowns, vaccinations, and to enforce local, interstate, 

and international travel restrictions.

Interestingly, her nomination as DNI was opposed by the Left, 

and only ten GOP senators opposed her nomination:

CODEPINK

Progressive Democrats of America

World Beyond War

Roots Action

But wait, theres more!

Avr

il has done her best, unsuccessfully, to purge her employment history at Palantir, a "data-sifting" company created with funding by InQTel, [the CIA venture capital operation noteworthy for funding Google as a start-up and providing Google Earth with US Satellite Intelligence resources - thus the designation "Keyhole" the classified codeword for that TS/C technology)].  Palantir sifts through both classified and Open Source data bases to reveal everything and anything about targeted persons.

This would not be a problem, normally, except that now Avril, as DNI, can task the entire Intelligence Community to coordinate with Palantir using Palantir's existing resources, coupled with the now exposed and infamous Hammer Intelligence tool used to spy on Americans.

2)  George Fu Gao

Chinese Communist Party [CCP]

Chief, Center, Disease Control&Prevention, 

     and was a guest professor at Wu Han University.    

     George got his PhD at Oxford University, and then 

     went to Harvard to do some more research on molecular 

     virology, immunology, and phylogeny of zoonotic 

     pathogens - the molecular basis on how enveloped

     viruses like avian flu, HIV, and SARS coronavirus

     penetrate host cells.

     [Interestingly, the vaccine in vogue includes HIV

     virus traces, which theoretically would nullify the

     human body's immune system, leaving those

     vaccinated vulnerable to a host of deadly infections]

3) Rear Admiral Redd: 

US Public Health Service 

Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness & Response 

at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Previously, he was the Director of the 

CDC's Influenza Coordination Unit, 

where he served as the incident commander for the 

2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic influenza response.

[His dad was a USN Vice Admiral and 

Director of the 

National Counterterrorism Center 

where he prepared the first government 

"war plan" on Terror]

He will likely direct the US response to any new 

"outbreak of Covid". 

 

4) Hasti Taghi: 

 VP NBC Universal 

Very outspoken in condemning "conspiracy theorists" questioning the motives and methods of agencies involved in developing and disseminating vaccines.

[One of CIA's psyop elements specializes in attacking "conspiracy theorists"]

Taghi  is not a scientist, nor is she knowledgeable of public health, other than what she has learned as a Houston socialite, and perhaps what she has learned from watching NBC news broadcasts. 

At Event 201, Taghi noted that the anti-vaccine movement was very strong due to social media, and therefore, they need to disseminate “the right information….to ensure the public has trust in the vaccines that we’re creating”.  This strong resistance was a “beta” test for dealing with resistance to vaccines.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Thirteen studies show social distancing increases deaths: 

 https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/13-studies-reveal-how-social-distancing-ie-social-isolation-can-increase-mortalit? 

There’s a lack of solid data on how contagious it is, how many cases there are and how many deaths are directly caused by COVID-19. 

Important quote: 

“We’re getting very crude numbers of cases and deaths, very little information about testing rates, contagious analysis, severity rates, who’s being hospitalised, who is in intensive care, who is dying, what are the definitions to decide if someone died of the coronavirus or just died with the coronavirus. There is so much important data that is very hard to get, to guide the decisions about how serious a threat is this.” 

Dr. Kettner (30 year career in public medicine):

"Death rates in China, Italy, and South Korea (and other countries) 

are in the range of only 0.002% to 0.025% of the population." 

A US study in which CDC's Dr. Fauci, states: 

 “This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.” 

Dr. Fauci https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387

References/links:

https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/10/17/live-simulation-exercise-to-prepare-public-and-private-leaders-for-pandemic-response/

Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative Destroyed

Hope Hicks testified, in full, before the House Committee,
answering all questions regarding Trump's contact with Russia.
The Democrats now focus solely on questions she declined
which addressed other White House issues.

Since the News Media buried this report, 

hoping the voting public would not notice, 

we are re-publishing it, as written, 

to give it global coverage and offset the 

Fake News the Democrats' are reporting.  

True journalism is rare today, so we want to 

give it our full support and widest distribution!

While the press portrayed Hope Hicks’s silence as all-inclusive, 

in reality she testified at length and in detail about all aspects of 

Trump’s presidential campaign. 

How Hope Hicks’s Testimony Destroyed The Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative.
The Federalist, 24June2019
By: Margot Cleveland 

Following the Thursday [13June2019] release of the transcript from Hope Hicks’s testimony before the Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee, the media quickly concentrated on the questions Trump’s former communications director refused to answer.

But while the press portrayed Hicks’s silence as all-inclusive, in reality Hicks testified at length and in detail about all aspects of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. And that testimony established yet again that the Russia collusion narrative was a hoax. 

One theme of Democrats’ questioning of Hicks concerned the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russians. Several times Hicks confirmed the lack of contacts between top Trump campaign members and Russia.

 “I’m telling you,” Hicks testified, “I wasn’t aware in the campaign of any contacts with Russian officials.”

Later, when asked again what, if any, communications and contacts there were between the Trump campaign and Russian or Russian officials, Hicks noted that during the campaign she wasn’t aware of any but later learned of insignificant contacts, such as Jeff Sessions meeting the Russian ambassador at a foreign policy speech.

Hicks further testified that a Russian official’s post-election comment that Russia was “in constant communication or constant contact with members of Trump’s inner circle throughout the campaign,” “was not true.”

“I’m not aware of anybody that regularly interacted with Mr. Trump that was a decisionmaker that advised him on a frequent basis that had, ‘regular contacts’ with any Russian officials,” Hicks stressed.

Hicks, who had previously worked for the Trump organization, also testified that she was not aware of any financial ties between Russia and the Trump Organization during the campaign. Nor did Hicks have any knowledge of any “foreign government providing cash or any other thing of value to Mr. Trump during the campaign,” or of any conversations during the campaign about Trump traveling to Russia (other than for the Miss Universe Pageant), or meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Hicks further told the committee that she only “became aware that the Russian government was attempting to interfere in the 2016 elections” when the story hit the press.

Nothing on the DNC Hack Or Trump Tower 

Democrats on the Committee nonetheless pushed the Russia collusion narrative by attempting to portray an email Hicks received from the editor-in-chief of the Russian internet newspaper Vzglyad as evidence of a Russian conspiracy.

Joe Neguse

Democratic Representative Joe Neguse flipped to the much-referenced Robert Mueller report to read the special counsel’s finding that “one day earlier the publication’s founder and former Russian parliamentarian Konstantin Rykov had registered two Russian websites, Trump2016.ru and DonaldTrump2016.ru.”

But Neguse’s attempt to implicate the Trump campaign in Russia’s online efforts to interfere in the election failed badly.

Hicks noted: “I don’t recall receiving the interview request”; I received hundreds of interview requests, sometimes daily.”

Because Trump had no intention of participating in the interview, Hicks explained, she was not concerned about the identity of the outlet, and hadn’t even realized until after the fact that the email had come from a Russian.

Concerning the WikiLeaks hacks, Hicks made clear that the only discussion the campaign had was “...speculation about if there would be more emails or information released, but that was prompted by things in the media” and it wasn’t with certainty that more leaks would happen, but “with speculation and skepticism.”

“No” Hicks stressed, Trump did not talk about WikiLeaks or the hack, nor did anybody else in the campaign, other than what was discussed in the public domain. Hicks also testified that during the campaign she had heard nothing about Roger Stone and his supposed relationship with WikiLeaks or its founder Julian Assange, or about WikiLeaks’ “divulgence of information about the emails of Hillary Clinton and Mr. Podesta” beyond media coverage.

In short, Hicks stated that during the campaign, Trump never indicated that he knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks was responsible for the Democratic National Committee hacks or that he had knowledge that additional information would be released.

Hicks also confirmed that before the election she had not been told that anyone at the Trump campaign had been offered information about Hillary Clinton.

The Trump Tower meeting was another focus of committee questions:
Hicks told the committee that she did not know about the Trump Tower meeting or Donald Trump Jr.’s emails about that meeting until after Trump was elected president. She had also never heard “... any discussion from any Trump Organization employee or Mr. Trump about an ongoing effort to pursue a potential Trump Tower Moscow at that time...” another thread woven into the Russia collusion hoax.

Hick’s responses during last week’s hearing also provided fresh insight into Trump’s behind-the-scenes response to news of Russian interference. Hicks noted that the campaign only “... became aware that the Russian government was attempting to interfere in the 2016 elections...” when the story hit the press. The president’s former confidant added that any conversations she was privy to during the campaign concerning Russia interference in the election mirrored what Trump said publicly.

The Trump Collusion Narrative Is a Red Herring 

Then, when asked what specifically Trump said during the campaign about public reports that his team was coordinating with Russia, Hicks relayed that Trump called it “nonsense.”

Trump believed that the Russia collusion conspiracy “...was something that the Clinton campaign had made up to deflect from the information that they viewed as harmful to their candidate, to their campaign...” Hicks explained.  She also testified that she agreed with his assessment and that the “... unsubstantiated claims that [the Trump campaign] were coordinating with Russia was an attempt to distract and deflect.”

Trump's former communications director added that the Trump campaign obviously knew there was no collusion, but admitted that had she been working instead for the Clinton campaign, she “probably would have taken a similar strategy.”

Hicks further noted that, whether the Russia collusion hoax was being peddled by the “Clinton campaign or speculated about in the media,” her discussions with candidate Trump focused on how to respond to the false claims.

Hicks also shared details of her conversation with Trump following his late-July 2016 off-the-cuff remark:
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

Hicks explained that she informed Trump that “... some in the media had taken the expression quite literally, and that they were concerned he was encouraging foreign governments to, you know, locate those emails, and that that was obviously something that the media felt was extremely inappropriate and demanded a response from Mr. Trump and the campaign as to what exactly he meant by that.”

Hicks stated that, “... both from Trump’s remark and her discussion with him after,” she understood the comment as a joke. When pushed about what Trump had said, Hicks conveyed that he noted
“it was intended as a light-hearted comment.”

Trump Was Concerned About Paul Manafort 

In practice, however, Trump took concerns about Russia’s meddling seriously, Hicks explained.

Paul Manafort

For instance, according to Hicks, after the media began questioning Trump’s campaign chair, Paul Manafort. Trump, not realizing
Manafort’s close relationship with Richard Gates, asked Gates to keep an eye on Manafort.

Trump questioned some of Manafort’s “past work with other foreign governments, foreign campaigns...,” and stressed that “none of that would be appropriate to be ongoing during his service with the Trump campaign...” Hicks elaborated. He also asked Gates to let him know “if anything led him to believe that was ongoing.”

Mike Flynn

When, following Trump’s election, then-President Barack Obama raised questions about Michael Flynn to Trump, Hicks explained that warning tainted Trump’s view of Flynn going forward.

Trump “... was a bit bewildered that, you know, of all the things that the two of them could have been discussing,” it was Flynn that came up.

(This detail also raises the question of Obama’s motivation and his efforts to sour the president-elect’s relationship with Flynn.) 

Hicks’ testimony also negated several other Democratic and media talking points on Russia interference and collusion. While Democrats attempted to portray Trump as unperturbed by Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, Hicks countered, “I think he was concerned, but I think he was simultaneously concerned that folks with a political agenda were going to weaponize that assessment to try to undermine the legitimacy of this election.”

Misrepresenting the Truth for Political Gain 

Ted Lieu [CA-D]

Hicks similarly exposed how the media misrepresented information to further the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, when Representative Ted Lieu attempted to do the same during the hearing.

“In 2008, Donald Trump, Jr., was quoted as saying ‘In terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia’” Lieu quoted to Hicks.

Hicks acknowledged that she had spoken with Trump Jr., about this statement, but only to ensure “the media wasn’t misrepresenting the remark or presenting it in any misleading way.”

Hicks obliterated many of the Russia-collusion talking points pushed by Democrats and the media for the last three years.

“And how was the media mischaracterizing Donald Trump, Jr.’s remarks?” Lieu quizzed.

The media “made it seem like there was Russian money coming into the Trump Organization in a way that was inappropriate or somehow sinister when Trump Jr., was merely describing the kinds of clientele that were purchasing luxury apartments, both in New York City, Chicago, and in South Florida.  They’re a luxury, globally recognized real estate company,” Hicks explained, so “it would be odd if [the Trump Organization] weren’t selling to people just because they’re affiliated with Russia.”

By the end of her nearly eight hours of testimony last week, Hicks had obliterated many of the Russia-collusion talking points pushed by Democrats and the media for the last three years, even more expertly than Mueller did in his special counsel report.

As one Democrat noted during the hearing, Hicks was “... with [Trump] every day,” during both the primary and general election.
She would have known had the campaign colluded with Russia.
Yet her testimony made clear there was no Russia strategy, significant contact, collaboration, or collusion, which is why when Hicks was asked whether she thought the President “might be angry about [her] testifying before Congress today...”
her ready reply punctuated her significant—but unreported—testimony:
“I think the President knows that I would tell the truth, and the truth is there was no collusion. And I’m happy to say that as many times as is necessary today.”


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Margot Cleveland is a senior contributor to The Federalist. 

Cleveland served nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk 
to a federal appellate judge and is a former full-time faculty 
member and current adjunct instructor at the college of business
at the University of Notre Dame. 

The views expressed here are 
those of Cleveland in her private capacity.

Brennan -- No Credentials

John, now here's what I want you to say next about Trump. 

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“.

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.  

Notably, both Brennan and Clapper became documented perjurers while serving in their appointive positions. 

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.