WILL OBAMA FIRE BRENNAN? responseactionnetwork.msgfocus/c/1sWeKj2MiFl9qeGfXCo6D1CIA Director John Brennan appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week. He admitted that the agency had spied on Committee staffers . . . who prepared an investigation of the controversial post 9/11 CIA interrogation and detention program, and apologized for it. Several members of Congress have since called on President Obama to fired Brennan. But that raises another, very troubling, question: President Obama could surprise the country by axing his former counterterrorism adviser, explaining that under Brennans management, employees broke laws and undermined the separation of powers core to our democracy. Obama may well make a good-faith effort to act in the national interest. But its impossible to believe that he wont be aware of the following: No U.S. official knows more than Brennan about Obamas many drone killings. Some of the killings were solidly grounded in international law. And others may have violated the Fifth Amendment, international law, or the laws of war. In the past, Brennan has been willing to lie about those drone strikes to hide ugly realities. For example, he stated in the summer of 2011 that there had been zero collateral deaths from covert U.S. drone strikes in the previous year, an absurd claim that has been decisively debunked. What if he grew more forthright, either in public statements or by anonymously leaking information? In other words, Brennan may know too much for Obama - or anyone else - to fire him.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:21:32 +0000
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