What do you have to do to be disgraced in modern America?
Former CIA director John Brennan is being called to serve in the Department of Homeland Security’s new “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” that will offer their advice and counsel to Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis Ken Wainstein and Counterterrorism Coordinator Nicholas Rasmussen.
You may remember that John Brennan is one of the scores of former U.S. intelligence officials to sign a letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop was the product of Russian disinformation. “Our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case,” they wrote in the infamous letter.
The letter was later credibly revealed to be a campaign operation spearheaded by the team around Joe Biden. Nobody on the list has been subsequently stripped of security clearances for this abuse, itself an act of election disinformation. Shouldn’t the Biden administration at the very least be embarrassed about this? Of course. But it won’t be.
Brennan is also famous for misusing CIA assets to spy on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that has oversight over the agency.
This has always been a mystery to me. I would think that a person who broke the cardinal rule of American intelligence and used the CIA for domestic spying, particularly on elected officials overseeing him, would have undergone a short criminal trial, been found guilty, and then spent the remainder of his days in a maximum-security prison in some mountain before being summarily executed, with his name put down on the baleful roll of other Ninth Circle traitors.
Instead, John Brennan, a man who voted for the Communist Party ticket in 1980, went on to have a notable career screaming about Donald Trump on MSNBC, before being called back to government service.
What do you have to do to be disgraced in modern America?