Priebus: Ex-CIA chief John Brennan is ‘bitter’ he wasn’t retained by President Trump – IOTW Report

Priebus: Ex-CIA chief John Brennan is ‘bitter’ he wasn’t retained by President Trump

WaTimes: Members of President Trump’s inner circle charged Sunday that former CIA director John O. Brennan is trying to undermine the relationship between the new administration and the intelligence community on his way out the door.

Escalating the war of words on Sunday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Mr. Brennan is beginning to sound like a “partisan political hack” with his repeated public criticisms of the new president after the former director reportedly called Mr. Trump’s postinaugural visit to the CIA’s Langley headquarters a “despicable display of self-aggrandizement.”

“Do you think what [the] outgoing CIA director said yesterday in a statement using the vocabulary, the language he used about our new president of the United States somehow ‘improves our relationship with the intelligence community’?” Ms. Conway said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It is irresponsible. It is reprehensible. And it is totally unnecessary.”

Mr. Trump made his first official visit to the CIA on Saturday in order to show his support for and clear the air with the intelligence community, following a series of damaging leaks during the presidential transition period. He said reports of a feud between his campaign and the intelligence services were the product of “dishonest” media reporting.

“I love you, I respect you, there’s nobody I respect more,” Mr. Trump told several hundred cheering workers who came in the Langley complex on a Saturday. “We’re going to start winning again, and you’re going to be leading the charge.”  read more

23 Comments on Priebus: Ex-CIA chief John Brennan is ‘bitter’ he wasn’t retained by President Trump

  1. Brennen needs to be informed that he will be under surveillance for the rest of his life (which I suspect most ex-cia directors are) and warned to stay out of politics (which with the exception of Bush seem to). Brennan sure has a hate on for Trump. I wonder if it’s because o the bullsh*t Russian Hacking story the agency fed the press that fell apart. Maybe he’s concerned the agency’s failures over the past years will come to light. Whatever it is he needs to get shut of it now and retire gracefully into obscurity.

  2. Funny, but from my youth I can’t recall the names of the CIA Directors. The first one I remember was George HW Bush.
    (course I heard about Dulles, but after the fact)

    Why is the head of a secret Agency whining about shit on TV?
    Do other countries allow their spooks to whine on TV about politics?
    (not that I give a fuck about other countries, just curious)

    Seems counter-intuitive, to me.
    (maybe there’s some subtle spy-shit going on that eludes me?)

    izlamo delenda est …

  3. I just heard an interview with Jeffrey Lord on one of our local radio station. He said he went back to 2009 to see what Obama did when he went to the CIA. First, it was 3 weeks after his inauguration and secondly he told a bunch of jokes standing in front of the same wall. Did we hear about that? Was there outrage? NAH!

  4. You don’t expect me to believe such a thing about the venerable Brennan do you? Next you’ll probably try to tell me that our top CIA agent has voted communist party in the past. Oh wait……..

  5. You don’t expect me to believe such a thing about the venerable Brennan do you? Next you’ll probably try to tell me that our top CIA agent is Muslim and has voted communist party in the past. Oh wait……..

  6. Not only did Brennan’s CIA do some dirty stupid shit in Libya,
    but they did it so ham-handedly and ineptly that this muslim-convert moron should fire himself in shame.

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