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CIA Director: “I Voted For The Communist Party Candidate”
2016-09-22
[WeaselZippers] At his first polygraph test to enter the CIA, the future director had a secret.

John Brennan on Thursday recalled being asked a standard question for a top security clearance at his early CIA lie detector test: Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the US?

"I froze," Brennan said during a panel discussion about diversity in the intelligence community at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual conference. "This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate,"

Brennan was responding to a question about barriers to recruiting diverse candidates for the intelligence fields, including whether past records of activism could hurt someone applying for a clearance later in life.

The CIA director said the agency's mission is to protect the values of the Constitution -- which include free speech.
Shocking, right?
Posted by:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

#14  Links fixed. Enjoy!
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-09-22 22:14  

#13  Nothing at either link.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2016-09-22 19:03  

#12  Who modified this report?
Posted by: Thor Lumumba3940   2016-09-22 15:47  

#11  New leaks show Panetta offered the military to rescue Benghazi but didn't get the sign off.
Posted by: Thor Lumumba3940   2016-09-22 15:37  

#10  Shocking, right? No!
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-09-22 11:54  

#9  Are we possibly on the cusp of learning that this ever expanding list of domestic terror suspects, interviewed then dropped by the FBI....were soon after (or even previously) recruited as agents ?Posted by: Besoeker It appears that this did happen with Nakoula Basseley Nakoula the Innocence of Muslims guy. You are on to something.
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-09-22 10:39  

#8  Jarett, Brennan, Kerry. A frightening leadership cabal.

You've just identified the nexus of our shadow government. Please add Phil Reines, Mike Morrell, and Leon Panetta.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-09-22 09:34  

#7  May 21, 2010, US John Brennan calls Jerusalem by it's Muslim name (Al-Quds)...
Obama, Jarett, Brennan, Kerry. A frightening leadership cabal.
Posted by: Shick de Medici6262   2016-09-22 09:25  

#6  Ref #5. Are we possibly on the cusp of learning that this ever expanding list of domestic terror suspects, interviewed then dropped by the FBI....were soon after (or even previously) recruited as agents ?

If the model and alarming rate of GITMO releasee recidivism is not convincing enough, I will once again mention author Ian Johnson's 'A Mosque In Munich.'

The losses will be acceptable and soon forgotten. The 'Drone Zapp' monster however, and illusion of progress must continually be fed.

Posted by: Besoeker   2016-09-22 07:59  

#5  Mr. Brennan is using this story to cover something, and I'd like to know what it is. There's no way this story came out by accident.
Posted by: Steve White   2016-09-22 07:38  

#4  Well, he's switched to Islam now.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-09-22 05:16  

#3  I have long been convinced that Brennan and his crew are the puppet masters.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-09-22 04:15  

#2  We have a communist running the CIA? WTF?
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-09-22 01:53  

#1  He left out the fact that he'd do so again.

Nobody with a (D) by their name cares--they're on the other side as well.
Posted by: Crusader   2016-09-22 00:06  

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