John Brennan (AP file picture)
John Brennan, the previous CIA director who as soon as performed a key function in America’s post-9/11 safety technique, is again within the information this time, not for stopping a risk, however for allegedly fuelling a political one.A newly declassified report from the home intelligence committee claims Brennan and different senior officers from the Obama administration misled the general public and distorted intelligence to help the narrative that Russia interfered within the 2016 election to assist Donald Trump.
Who’s John Brennan?
- Born on September 22, 1955, in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brennan was the son of Irish immigrants.
- Brennan served because the director of the central intelligence company (CIA) from 2013 to 2017 underneath president Barack Obama.
- Brennan beforehand testified in 2017 that the Steele file, a now-discredited report, was not used within the official intelligence evaluation of Russian interference. Nevertheless, the brand new declassified materials suggests Brennan insisted on together with the file within the intelligence report, though his high Russia analysts suggested in opposition to it.
- It was Brennan who briefed president Obama in 2016 about Hillary
Clinton ’s alleged plan to hyperlink Trump to Russia with a purpose to distract from her personal e mail scandal. - After Donald Trump took workplace, John Brennan rapidly emerged as one in all his loudest critics. He frequently appeared on cable information, warning about what he known as Trump’s “harmful affinity for authoritarianism.” Brennan even accused the president of “treasonous behaviour” and claimed he was “wholly within the pocket of Putin.
