John Brennan Tweet Confirms Donald Trump's Concerns About Politicized Intelligence

by JOEL B. POLLAK
Breitbart
Mar. 19, 2018

Former CIA Director John Brennan reacted to the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — and President Donald Trump's celebration of it — by tweeting a strident attack against Trump:

When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you. https://t.co/uKppoDbduj
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) March 17, 2018

The president's critics seem to like Brennan's tweet. In fact, it confirmed what Trump has been saying all along: that the senior leadership of the intelligence and federal law enforcement services had become highly politicized.

That impression was only reinforced further by a tweet from former UN Ambassador Samantha Power — whose full role in "unmasking" Americans who appeared in foreign intelligence wiretaps has yet to be exposed:

Not a good idea to piss off John Brennan. https://t.co/VLg94OLL2R
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) March 17, 2018

Power's warning echoes that of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), who warned Trump last January — in the midst of heavy leaks to the media by the FBI and intelligence services: "You take on the intelligence community -- they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

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