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Given his seats on Intelligence, Judiciary, and Homeland Security, Ratcliffe has seen a lot more of them than most Congress members. In the Sunday interview, he named some of those allegedly engaged in illegalities: former FBI Director James Comey, senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr, and opposition research guru Glenn Simpson. Also mentioned but unnamed were the Obama officials who Ratcliffe said committed a "felony" by leaking highly classified phone transcripts to use against Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump's short-lived national security adviser.
But Now Running Scared
No one has more to fear from all this than ex-CIA Director Brennan. He eagerly awaited the final report from Mueller, whom Brennan has unctuously praised. Introducing Mueller to an audience at Georgetown University in June 2014, Brennan called him "a remarkable public servant as well as a great friend, a transformative leader, an outstanding partner to CIA, and a source of wise counsel to leaders across the intelligence community."
In his testimony to the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 24, Mueller avoided discussing some of the chicanery that bears Brennan's fingerprints, but he surely failed to "exonerate" him, so to speak. To suggest that the selection of Ratcliffe to become DNI was unwelcome news to Brennan is to state the obvious. Brennan got up early on Monday and at 7:11 AM sent this characteristic tweet about integrity and subservience, of all things:
John O. Brenna n à Å-- @JohnBrennan
Dan Coats served ably & with deep integrity. Ratcliffe showed abject subservience to Trump in Mueller hearings. The women & men in the Intelligence Community deserve a leader like Coats who puts nation first; not a servile Trump loyalist like Ratcliffe. https://www. nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/ politics/dan-coats-intelligence-chief-out.html
S en. Rand Paul (R-KY) has tweeted information from "a high-level source" that it was Brennan who "insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier" be given prominent attention in the Russia-gate story.
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