The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: John Brennan Has Himself to Blame for FBI Investigation

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk, business. Recently, Pam Bondi and the Trump Department of Justice has said they were running an investigation into James Comey and John Brennan's career as the respective FBI director in the CIA had. Take John Brennan. Two or three of the most significant scandals of the last 50 years, he was at the center. You could make the argument that the Russian collusion hoax almost swung the election to Hillary Clinton. We wouldn't be in this big trouble about the Ukraine war in Russia. Had John Brennan and people like him not floated the spurious narrative that Donald Trump was working hand-in-glove with Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin, Russia, Russia, Russia. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.

Starting point is 00:01:26 Recently, Pam Bondi and the Trump Department of Justice, has said they are running an investigation into James Comey and John Brennan's career as the respective FBI director and the CIA head during the Obama administration and in the case of Comey, the first year of the Trump administration. They are very angry about this, but let's just review why there might be some culpability. Take John Brennan. he was a big proponent of waterboarding and enhanced interrogation under George W. Bush's administration and the things that went on in Guantanamo. I'm not going to comment on the right, whether they were right or wrong,

Starting point is 00:02:11 but he flipped to condition himself to go into the Obama administration, and then he attacked the very president that he had served, George Bush. Then he began sounding off about Islam, religion of peace, jihadism is not a violent act, to condition himself further to be appointed by Obama, which he was, eventually as CIA director. But then he started lying. I mean, he always probably lied, but I mean, flagrant really so. He said before Congress and the media, there wasn't one civilian killed by Obama's targeted assassination program via predators on the Afghan or Pakistan border.

Starting point is 00:02:49 Actually, there were 50 or 75 innocent people we killed. He was caught in that lie. Three years later, he went before the Congress, and there was information that he had been tapping his CIA, the staffers for the Senate, to get into their computer. He not only lied about it, he did so emphatic. Oh, we would never do that. That's horrible. Then he was forced to say, yes, I lied. In both cases, there were no perjury charges, nothing.

Starting point is 00:03:16 The piece that resentsance for John Brennan was in October 2020 on the eve of the second. and critical presidential debate, Joe Biden was in trouble. People were furious about this laptop. There was pornography on it. There was drug use. There was references to Joe Biden as Mr. Big Guy, 10% that he'd been giving money.

Starting point is 00:03:38 He was crooked. People wanted to hear. He had no excuse. So what happened? Anthony Blinken, his future Secretary of State, campaign aide called Michael Morrell, interim FBI director at one point, said, round them up.

Starting point is 00:03:52 So 51, quote-unquote, intelligence authorities swore that the laptop had all the hallmarks of Russian information. Notice the words, all the hallmarks, scape clause, of Russian information, not disinformation. But that's what they meant. So what happened in the debate? Trump went right after Biden and said that laptop is real. It shows that you're a crook. It shows you your son is a miscreant. and Joe Biden's, how dare you?

Starting point is 00:04:23 51 intelligence authorities swear that it's a product of Russian espionage. Only you and Rudy Giuliani believe that, and it was effective. Later, a poll showed, the technometrica poll showed that people had known that it had been authenticated. And by the way, that laptop was sitting in the hands of the FBI and adjudicated to be authentic and not released to the public at a time when James Comey's Excuse me, Christopher Ray's FBI was partnering with Twitter and Facebook to suppress any news story that was accurately reporting that the laptop was authentic. John Brennan finally accused Donald Trump of being a Russian traitor. He said that after Donald Trump spoke in Helsinki about Russian-American relationships. He said that he is treasonous.

Starting point is 00:05:19 When he said that, I think we all thought, well, wait a minute. Donald Trump killed the Wagner group in Syria. He upped the sanctions on the oligarchs. He approved offensive weapons to Ukraine that Obama had counseled. Russia didn't go into Ukraine under the Trump administration. It had invaded Ossetia under Bush. It went under Ukraine under both Biden and Obama, but not under Trump. He told the Germans, don't cut a deal with Putin on the Nordstrom 2 pipeline.

Starting point is 00:05:51 He got out of an asymmetrical missile deal. He was the hardest president that we've had against Russia. So what was John Brennan doing? Here's what he was doing. And two or three of the most significant scandals of the last 50 years, he was at the center. You could make the argument that the Russian collusion hoax almost swung the election, the election to Hillary Clinton. You could argue that. You could argue that the Mueller investigation, based on that stupid dossier, cost Donald Trump 22 months of his first two years in office,

Starting point is 00:06:29 $40 million to find nothing. You could make the argument that if the FBI had just released its investigation of the laptop, told the people it was authentic, John Brennan would not, and his cohort's been able to lie to the American people that it was cooked up in Russia and that Donald Trump was complicit in that. That disclosure, that failure to disclose, the true nature of that laptop, thanks to John Brennan and 51 intelligence authorities,

Starting point is 00:07:00 and the debate by Joe Biden and the false charges may have affected the election. As I said, one polling company found that it did. And finally, we wouldn't be in the, this big trouble about the Ukraine war and Russia, had John Brennan and people like him not floated the spurious narrative that Donald Trump was working hand-in-glove with Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Russia, Russia. That colored and poisoned the whole relationship we had with Russia.

Starting point is 00:07:32 It affected the Russian-Ukrainian war, and it was all a lie. So here we are with John Brennan mad that he lost his security clearance. for being a well-paid MSNBC analyst. He should be better worried, not that he lost his security clearance, that he might be indicted and go to jail. He's got a lot of culpability, both in not telling the truth and spinning lies and being at the heart of a number of scandals

Starting point is 00:08:01 that affected the history of the United States. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to the... the Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.

The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: John Brennan Has Himself to Blame for FBI Investigation

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