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'''John Brennan''' (b. born 1955) served as [[Barack Obama]]'s [[CIA]] Director, managed the "kill list," and is deeply implicated in the [[Obamagate]] scandal. John Brennan is both a [[statism|statist]] who recognizes no higher moral authority than government, and an opportunist who betrayed the [[War on Terror]] for personal career ambition.
While serving two presidents in the immediate 16 years after the [[9/11]], Brennan helped breed more [[jihad]]is and countless victims of terror than when he started to fulfill his personal career ambition to become [[CIA]] Director.
==Education==
In his 1980 graduate thesis at the University of Texas at Austin, John Brennan denied the existence of “absolute [[human rights]]” and argued in favor of [[censorship]] on the part of the [[Egyptian]] [[dictator]]ship.
:“Since the press can play such an influential role in determining the perceptions of the masses, I am in favor of some degree of government censorship,” Brennan wrote. “Inflamatory [sic] articles can provoke mass opposition and possible violence, especially in developing political systems.”<ref>http://gotnews.com/breaking-barackobamas-cia-director-john-brennan-allies-targeting-trump-supporters-surveillance/ </ref>
==Saudi Arabia==
===Obama White House===
[[File:P050310PS-0374POD.jpg|250px|thumb|John Brennan with President Obama. Brennan was an advocate for the U.S. Government's torture program.]]
Brennan served as the "Terrorism Czar," sometimes called "Homeland Security Czar," but with the formal title as Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.<refname=GB>[http://www.glennbeck.blogs.foxnews.com/2009content/06articles/09article/rise-of-the-czars198/ Rise 29391/ List of the Obama's Czars], FOXNewsGlennBeck.com, June 9thAugust 21, 2009.</ref><ref name=GB>[http://www.glennbeck.blogs.foxnews.com/content2009/articles06/article09/198rise-of-the-czars/29391/ List Rise of Obama's the Czars], GlennBeckFOXNews.com, August 21June 9th, 2009.</ref> Appointed in January 2009, Brennan reported to National Security Adviser James L. Jones. Under [[Barack Hussein Obama|President Obama's]] plan, the homeland security adviser’s office would be eliminated, and the National Security Council would take over those duties.<ref name=GB/> The public was told Brennan would be responsible for guarding against natural disasters and terrorism. As Homeland Security Advisor, he was set about killing terrorists abroad while keeping the lid on [[Obama administration]] activities at home.
On September 21, 2010 an internal email entitled “Obama Leak Investigations” at the “global intelligence” company Stratfor claimed Obama’s White House adviser John Brennan was targeting [[journalist]]s.
===James Risen===
In April of 2010 Obama Attn. Gen. [[Eric Holder]] renewed a subpoena of ''[[New York Times]]'' reporter James Risen in a leak investigation. Risen and a colleague reported on warrantless wiretaps. The coverage won Risen and colleague a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for “carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate.” The Justice Dept. opened an investigation into the wiretap stories. John Brennan played a key role in the illegal wiretap program, overseeing the production of what personnel in the program called the “scary memos” intended to justify the domestic spying exposed by Risen. Brennan later admitted that he relied on information from CIA’s torture program rather than domestic spying, which was used as a cover. In a frontpage May 13, 2004 story the torture program was exposed with Risen as the lead reporter. The subpeaona of Risen is viewed as retribution and an intimidation tactic against whistleblowers.<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen/ </ref>
===CIA torture program===
===Osama bin Laden===
[[File:Jihad recruiting poster.jpg|right|300px|thumb|In 2001, estimates of Muslim males, ages 12 to 28, susceptible to recruiting for jihad were 12,000 globally; as Brennan left office in 2017 the Obama administration was boasting of having killed 50,000 ISIS jihadis out of force estimated no larger than 15,000 two and half years earlier. And the US was still fighting jihadis.]]
Killing bin Laden was never an objective or priority of the Bush administration. Knowing full well Islam is a doctrine of vengence - not love or forgiveness - the [[War on Terror]] was stipulated from the beginning to be about prevention, not retribution. Killing bin Laden was a [[Hydra]]'s head, the death of one would only spawn the rise of many to take bin Laden's place in [[Allah]]'s relentless struggle against his enemies. US intelligence agencies certainly knew this. Shortly after bin Laden's execution, the Islamic State was declared, and the call went out from the [[Caliph]] to Muslim warriors globally to enter the jihad. Thousands of foreign fighters arose from every continent. When Obama and Brennan departed from office [[Europe]] had been invaded and the West was losing the global jihad.<ref>http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/10/we-are-losing-the-war-on-terror/ </ref>
The Bush administration was content to leave bin Laden under house arrest, a coward in hiding, incapable of leading or directing further attacks, while others died fighting Americans'[[Western]] [[materialism]]'.
But Obama was always motivated by domestic politics, and Democrats' hatred of Bush could be mollified with a single issue - standing the War on Terror on its head and turning it into something it was never intended to be -- paybackbe—payback. Payback and retribution would repudiate America'a Christian ethic and make America no different than the enemies we fought. In keeping Brennan on as a Bush holdover, Obama wanted Brennan to enhance Obama's 2016 re-election prospects. Public approval gained from killing bin Laden was calculated to offset criticism of the kill list, and obscure the legal and moral objections from international and humanitarian organizations. Both would be rewarded in the end. This time Brennan wasn't denied appointment as CIA Director when Obama was reelected.
===The kill list===
[[File:John-brennan.jpg|right|450px|thumb|John Brennan, the mastermind behind the CIA torture program, the execution of [[bin Laden]] to aid [[Barack Hussein Obama]]'s re-election chances, the hacking into the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee's computers to thwart investigators, the man who decides who lives and who dies on Obama's kill list, instrumental in puting the plot in motion to destroy [[President Trump]]'s presidency over a percieved insult, and Trump's questioning why [[NATO]] has strayed from it's stated mission of collective defense by engaging in aggressive war in Libya, and Trump's refusal to go along with the globalist agenda for a new Cold War with Russia.<ref>http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/03/20/conspiracy-president-trump/ </ref>]]As Counterterrorism adviser, Brennan was the driving force behind the creation of the Disposition Matrix database to codify the targeted killing policies developed by Barack Obama. According to the ''[[New York Times]]'', Brennan has been the "principal coordinator" of U.S. kill lists. Former Obama administration counterterrorism official Daniel Benjamin stated that Brennan "probably had more power and influence than anyone in a comparable position in the last 20 years."<ref name=nyt20130205a>{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|date=5 February 2013|accessdate=|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/world/middleeast/with-brennan-pick-a-light-on-drone-strikes-hazards.html|title=Drone Strikes’ Dangers to Get Rare Moment in Public Eye|first1=Robert|last1=Worth|first2=Mark|last2=Mazzetti|first3=Scott|last3=Shane}}</ref> The criteria and decisions determining who may be targeted for killing were developed in large part by John Brennan, who "wields enormous power in shaping decisions on 'kill' lists and the allocation of armed drones".<ref>Washington Post</ref> Barack Obama, a [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winner, joked about his approvals of names submitted off Brennan's list: "I'm really good at killing people."<ref>https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n05/thomas-nagel/really-good-at-killing </ref>
U.S. citizens may be listed as targets for killing in the database.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 </ref> Suspects are not formally charged of any crime or offered a trial in their own defense.<ref name=ws1026>{{cite news|title=Institutionalized state assassinations and the November 6 election |first=Bill |last=Van Auken |authorlink= |url=http://wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/pers-o26.shtml |newspaper=World Socialist Web Site |date=26 October 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6Bp3lKT98?url=http://wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/pers-o26.shtml |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}</ref>
The World Socialist Web Site wrote that "the Obama administration has arrogated to itself the most extreme power that can be asserted by any [[dictator]]ship—that of ordering citizens put to death without presenting charges against them, much less proving them in a court of law". They later criticized the relative silence in the media and the political establishment following the revelation.<ref>{{cite news|title=American democracy and the "disposition matrix" |first=Joseph |last=Kishore |url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/pers-o31.shtml |newspaper=World Socialist Web Site |date=31 October 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6BzfXBntR?url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/pers-o31.shtml |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}</ref>
Obama's kill list has been criticized internationally as "targeted executions" and "extrajudicial murders."<ref name=rt1024>{{cite news|title=Kill-list 2.0: Obama’s ‘disposition matrix’ maps out extrajudicial murders for years to come |url=http://rt.com/usa/news/disposition-matrix-kill-obama-146/ |newspaper=Russia Today |date=24 October 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6BhOhc89I?url=http://rt.com/usa/news/disposition-matrix-kill-obama-146/ |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}</ref> "[I]n essence, this means that based on intelligence evidence, the administration assumes the right to judge and execute anyone without bothering about such minor things as proper court hearings, or the right of the accused person for proper legal defense...the fact that such operations clearly violate the principles propagated by the U.S. itself, like the right of everyone for legal defense, does not seem to bother the administration."<ref name=vor1026>{{cite news|title=Barack Obama widens the practice of extrajudicial killings |first=Boris |last=Volkhonsky |url=http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_26/Barack-Obama-widens-the-practice-of-extrajudicial-killings/ |publisher=Voice of Russia |date=26 October 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6Bp3m7GtF?url=http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_26/Barack-Obama-widens-the-practice-of-extrajudicial-killings/ |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}</ref> Speaking at [[Harvard Law School]] on 25 October 2012, United Nations Special Rapporteur on [[human rights]] and counter terrorism, Ben Emmerson, stated that he would launch an investigation unit within the United Nations Human Rights Council.<ref name=rt1026>{{cite news|title=United Nations to begin investigating US drone strike targeted kills |url=http://rt.com/usa/news/us-drone-emmerson-un-256/ |newspaper=Russia Today |date=26 October 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6BhOjRYIp?url=http://rt.com/usa/news/us-drone-emmerson-un-256/ |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}</ref> Emmerson and Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, have described some Obama admimistraion targeted killings as [[war crime]]s.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/21/drone-strikes-international-law-un Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur], Owen Bowcott, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 21 June 2012 </ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20131030231702/http://rt.com/usa/us-drone-emmerson-un-256/ </ref>
[[Glenn Greenwald]] has written that "the central role played by the NCTC in determining who should be killed [is] rather odious... the NCTC operates a gigantic data-mining operation, in which all sorts of information about innocent Americans is systematically monitored, stored, and analyzed".<ref name=gw1024>{{cite news|title=Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent |first=Glenn |last=Greenwald |authorlink=Glenn Greenwald |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/obama-terrorism-kill-list |newspaper=The Guardian |date=24 October 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6BhOg4QS6?url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/obama-terrorism-kill-list |deadurl=no |location=London |df=dmy }}</ref> Greenwald concludes that the Kill list has established "simultaneously a surveillance state and a secretive, unaccountable judicial body that analyzes who you are and then decrees what should be done with you, how you should be "disposed" of, beyond the reach of any minimal accountability or transparency".<ref name=gw1024 /> Former [[counterterrorism]] specialist and [[military intelligence]] officer Philip Giraldi has criticized the disposition matrix's "everyday" killing of targets with what he calls "little or no evidence", leaving the White House "completely unaccountable".<ref>{{cite news|title=Kill Lists Will Continue |first=Philip |last=Giraldi |authorlink=|url=http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/11/07/kill-lists-will-continue/ |work=[[Antiwar.com]] |date=8 November 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6C2YMHo57?url=http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/11/07/kill-lists-will-continue/ |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>[http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/12/05/the-protocols-for-death/ The Protocols for Death], by Philip Giraldi, [[Antiwar.com]], 06 December 2012</ref>
===CIA Director===
Brennan speaks [[Arabic]] and has a prayer rug in his office. Some in the [[Intelligence Community]] have rumoured that he converted to [[Islam]] while stationed in [[Saudi Arabia]] in the 1990s. More likely Brennan is the quintessential [[Statism|statist]], having been sworn in as CIA director on a copy of the [[U.S. Constitution]] rather than a [[Bible]] or [[Koran]]. Brennan recognizes no higher [[moral ]] authority than [[government]].
Brennan planted stories with the ''New York Times'' [[Cairo]] bureau chief David Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick wrote a controversial article whitewashing the [[Benghazi attack]] and repeatedly pushed a pro-[[Muslim Brotherhood]] agenda, according to his wife.
Trump reacted to the smears tweeting,
:"I win an election easily, a great "movement" is verified, and crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with [[Fake news|FAKE NEWS]]. A sorry state! … Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to ‘leak’ into the public. One last shot at me. Are we living in [[Nazi Germany]]?”<ref>http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-intel-20170111-story.html </ref>
On January 17, McClatchy reported that an informal, interagency group had been working for months on the issue of Russian attempts to influence the the election. The group included representatives of the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the office of the director of national intelligence.<ref>"[http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article127231799.html#storylink=cpy FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump]", ''McClatchy,'' January 18, 2017.</ref>
