Concur!!
John Brennan Urges ‘Remarkable’ FBI Dir. Wray to ‘Stay Strong’ Amid Trump’s ‘Abuse of Authority’
Appearing Thursday on MSNBC, former CIA Director John Brennan praised FBI Director Christopher Wray as a “remarkable” public servant and urged him to “stay strong” in the wake of revelations that he was among various Obama-era officials who may have received “unmasked” intelligence on former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
A partial transcript is as follows:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Asha Rangappa, former fed now affiliated with Yale Law School, tweeted this last night, “I love that the foreign intelligence targets the NSA was monitoring can reverse engineer the channels they were using on the dates they were in contact with Flynn that was just released by the DNI. And if they are still using those channels, stop.” And she puts it, “so that’s fun.” Any reaction from you, Director Brennan?
JOHN BRENNAN: No, I just think what Mr. Grenell and others are doing now raises some serious questions about the ongoing capabilities, focus, intelligence of the law enforcement community. If they are being manipulated at the very top for political purposes, who knows as far are defenses against these determined efforts on the part of our enemies. And as we have talked about, the upcoming November election how the Russians and others are going to seek to try to once again interfere and influence the outcome, I’m just very concerned that some of those at the very top are not going to fulfill the duties that are entrusted to them by the American people. I am just hoping that individuals like Chris Wray, who is a remarkable public servant, will continue to stay strong in this type of abominable, again, abuse of authority.
Video Here:
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/15/john-brennan-urges-remarkable-chris-wray-to-stay-strong-amid-trumps-abuse-of-authority/
The Nuclear Option: Sen. Patty Murray Turns Pandemic Hearing into Partisan Circus
Winston Churchill, the greatest half-American to ever live, is famously quoted as having said: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” The quote is exactly half-right. The best argument against democracy is actually a five-minute conversation with the average lawmaker. Never clearer has this been than watching the U.S. Senate this week confront the deadly pandemic ravaging the world today. Senators might have taken up the fight sooner except that from Jan. 16 to Feb. 5 of this year — as the virus was marching across the globe and headed for America — the Senate was entirely consumed with a hotly partisan, political effort to undo the 2016 election and remove President Trump from office on fantastical charges that even they knew were fraudulent and would never actually remove him from office. Since then, more than 80,000 Americans have died from the virus. Worldwide, more than a quarter-million have perished.
o it was really great to see the Senate’s health committee finally arrive on the scene and hold its first hearing with the nation’s top frontline health officials — officials who for months have been huddling every single day with Mr. Trump. It would not take long before the hearing devolved into the same silly nonsense that dominated the impeachment trial that the Senate was obsessed with when the pandemic first reached America’s shores. Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the committee, is from Washington, the state that was ground zero for the virus in the United States. She first got elected to the Senate on a platform of wearing tennis shoes. I wish I were making that up, but I am not. This is the woman sent to fight a pandemic? Like the man said: “Best argument against democracy.” Mrs. Murray and her tennis shoes wasted no time turning the hearing into a partisan circus.
“Families across the country are counting on us for the truth about the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic [from a wet market in Wuhan], especially since it is clear they will not get it from President Trump,” she said. That was literally the first sentence out of the woman’s mouth after opening pleasantries. Never have such unserious and unfit people been tasked with confronting something so deadly serious. From there, Mrs. Murray and her tennis shoes rambled on and on, never straying more than a sentence or two from attacking her great orange political nemesis in the White House. “The fact of the matter is President Trump has been more focused on fighting against the truth than fighting this virus and Americans have sadly paid the price,” said the woman and her tennis shoes, who ground the U.S. Senate to a complete halt for three weeks earlier this year as the virus stalked elderly people in nursing homes back in the state she was supposed to be representing in the U.S. Senate. Anyone hoping for seriousness from across the aisle in the committee would be sorely disappointed. In response, Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, and the committee chairman, heaped praise on himself, his committee, Mrs. Murray and her dung-covered tennis shoes. “We have some very strong views, but we’re able to work together and to express those views and respect each other and our witnesses,” he oozed. “And a big part of that goes to Sen. Murray and her staff. So, thank you for that.” Yes, thank you, Mrs. Murray. Chairman Alexander is so classy he takes time during this global pandemic to pause and congratulate himself. And his committee. And Mrs. Murray. But he failed to compliment Mrs. Murray’s dung-laden tennis shoes by name. These people’s motto has always been: “Vote Republican. We are not as bad as Democrats.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/15/the-nuclear-option-sen-patty-murray-turns-pandemic-hearing-into-partisan-circus/
Indeed and he's really not shy about it either, he must still believe he's untouchable, even after being exposed.
James Clapper’s CNN Connection Goes Dark After He Is Asked About Leaks
James Clapper’s video and audio connection with CNN died during a Thursday segment on CNN after he was asked about leaks of classified information to news media. James Clapper, who was Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence (DNI), now works for CNN as an “analyst.” He previously denied leaking information related to the dossier composed by British former intelligence officer Christopher Steele in 2016. The collection of documents was procured by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, circulated between Obama administration senior officials, and used as a predicate by intelligence agencies to obtain warrants to surveil associates of then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump via the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. While speaking with CNN colleague John Berman, Clapper’s audio connection went dead while his video feed faded to black.
Transcript below.
BERMAN: Asking for names [to be unmasked], nothing wrong with that. Unmasking in itself, nothing wrong with that. Leaking classified information — and by definition these phone calls were classified — that’s a problem, correct?
CLAPPER: Absolutely, it is.
BERMAN: And if anyone did leak the contents of these conversations with or without the name, that would be a problem, yes?
CLAPPER: [connection ends]
BERMAN: We’ve lost the shot. I wonder if we can at least get him on the phone to finish this. Let’s try to get Director Clapper back. All right, we’re gonna work on getting that shot back.
Earlier in the interview, Clapper claimed to not remember why he requested “unmasking” — revealing the identities — of American citizens whose communications were surveilled and captured by federal intelligence agencies. Berman did not ask Clapper if the former DNI had leaked information regarding the Steele dossier to Tapper. Despite Clapper’s earlier denial of discussing the Steele dossier with Clapper, he admitted to doing so in 2017 while speaking with congressional investigators.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/05/15/james-clapper-cnn-connection-asked-leaks/
Indeed.. All will be displaying this until reality hits.
>So, if this is accurate, seems like they anticipated a pandemic for some reason. Hmmm.
It was the insurance policy, the country would shut down, vote by mail would be by no other choice, allowing them the time for fake and phone ballots properly placed in areas they needed the most for a win of Presidency, House and Senate. Only option left is a call to arms…where are they? Prisons..
The insurance policy lapsed..lack of payment. I don't think the are out of ammo though..Prisoners could be their call to arms to be used at political venues..
Concur..The dems do have their people and at this point I wouldn't put it past them to have hand selected exactly who gets out..