Trump Forces IC Elite to Squeal

Like the pigs they are.

by baldilocks

Nor­mally, I try to offer some­thing that few other blog­gers are talk­ing about, but not this time.

I remain fas­ci­nated by the very exis­tence of John Bren­nan, for­mer direc­tor of the CIA, and his sense of enti­tle­ment to this country’s national secu­rity secrets. Even more riv­et­ing that his pre­de­ces­sors and peers obvi­ously share this attitude.

You all do remem­ber what I used to do for a liv­ing, right? Well, when I stopped doing it — in 1994 — my secu­rity clear­ance and access to infor­ma­tion was revoked. Naturally.

And the same has been so for count­less oth­ers who were granted access to clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion due to their jobs, but left their job posi­tions for what­ever reason.

But we were just worker bees. The recent scream­ing fit thrown by Bren­nan after Pres­i­dent Trump revoked his access exposed that there are two sets of rules in the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity: one for the lords and another for us serfs.

I sup­pose that I shouldn’t be shocked by it — espe­cially after Hillary Clin­ton skated away from legal con­se­quences for doing some­thing that would have put me in jail — but I am.

The great thing about it all, how­ever, is that Pres­i­dent Trump’s

actions exposed this elite layer in the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity to the world. When he announced his intent to yank Brennan’s clear­ance, Bren­nan and friends responded like Pavlov’s Dogs.

The list of for­mer senior intelligence

[cap­tion id=“attachment_108531” align=“alignright” width=“150”] The infa­mous James Clapper.[/caption]

offi­cials who signed the let­ter includes James Clap­per, a for­mer Direc­tor of National Intel­li­gence, and seven CIA Direc­tors includ­ing Robert Gates, William Web­ster, George Tenet, Porter Goss, Michael Hay­den, Leon Panetta and David Petraeus.

There is more than one per­son on this list who I wouldn’t trust to walk my dog.

“As for­mer senior intel­li­gence offi­cials, we feel com­pelled to respond in the wake of the ill-​considered and unprece­dented remarks and actions by the White House regard­ing the removal of John Brennan’s secu­rity clear­ances,” they wrote.

“We know John to be an enor­mously tal­ented, capa­ble, and patri­otic indi­vid­ual who devoted his adult life to the ser­vice of this nation,” the let­ter continued.

“Insin­u­a­tions and alle­ga­tions of wrong­do­ing on the part of Bren­nan while in office are base­less,” it added.

Some of the offi­cials who signed the let­ter noted that they may not side with Brennan’s com­ments or choose to go pub­lic with any com­ments, but “We all agree that the president’s action regard­ing John Bren­nan and the threats of sim­i­lar action against other for­mer offi­cials has noth­ing to do with who should and should not hold secu­rity clear­ances – and every­thing to do with an attempt to sti­fle free speech.”

Empha­sis mine. As if Bren­nan will need a secu­rity clear­ance to throw his next tantrum.

I don’t think that these IC elite pup­pets get that they and their ilk have been outed to the world, but I get it. And the great thing about it is that they did it to them­selves by falling in line behind a POS like Bren­nan. I guess I expected them to be more cir­cum­spect about their priv­i­lege, being spooks and all.

Bren­nan must have some­thing on all of them …

Juli­ette Akinyi Ochieng has been blog­ging since 2003 as baldilocks. Her older blog is here. She pub­lished her first novel, Tale of the Tigers: Love is Not a Game in 2012.

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