Brennan Inept or At Fault?

When the Obama Administration was intensifying its efforts, in conjunction with the Sauds, to replace Russia-allied Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Mr. Brennan has been in periodic contact by phone with Prince Bandar”,who until 9/11 had been personally financing at least two of the 15 Saudis who were among the 19 hijackers/pilots; and, moreover, Bandar and his brothers were the main funders of Al Qaeda throughout the period leading up to 9/11. And, furthermore, Bandar had worked with the U.S. Government before Al Qaeda even existed, so as to help Osama bin Laden to set up Al Qaeda, originally against the Soviet Union. (And, now, Al Qaeda is America’s key organization leading Syria’s jihadists to overthrow and replace Syria’s Government.)
https://www.strategic-culture.org/pview/2018/03/28/john-brennan-entered-cia-1980-though-voted-communist-1976.html
The CIA hid vulnerabilities that could be used by hackers from other countries or governmentsWikiLeaks claims that its source handed over the documents in order to provoke a debate about the power of intelligence agencies and how their information should be exposed. Perhaps central to that is the accusation that the CIA was "hoarding" exploits that it had found – rather than handing them over to the companies that could fix them, and so make users safe, as they had promised to do.Such bugs were found in the biggest consumer electronics in the world, including phones and computers made Apple, Google and Microsoft. But those companies didn't get the chance to fix those exploits because the agency kept them secret in order to keep using them, the documents suggest."Serious vulnerabilities not disclosed to the manufacturers places huge swathes of the population and critical infrastructure at risk to foreign intelligence or cyber criminals who independently discover or hear rumors of the vulnerability," a WikiLeaks statement read. "If the CIA can discover such vulnerabilities so can others."
WikiLeaks noted that those unfixed exploits affected everyone using the equipment, including "the U.S. Cabinet, Congress, top CEOs, system administrators, security officers and engineers".https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/wikileaks-cia-what-are-they-explained-vault-7-year-zero-julian-assange-secrets-a7616826.html
CIA’S NEW “DIGITAL INNOVATION” DIVISION CAN’T SEEM TO KEEP ITS OWN SECRETS Mattathias SchwartzTuesday 7 March 2017 18:22Last summer, the new directorate’s deputy director told Bloomberg that a “well-meaning but incompetent insider” is at fault for cyber breaches. That the WikiLeaks documents would come from within the new DDI is especially embarrassing for Brennan, who served as Obama’s White House counter-terrorism advisor during years when the administration pursued multiple investigations into journalists and their sources. Even as Brennan was publicly blaming Edward Snowden for the 2015 Paris attacks, he appears to have had some trouble mopping up the leaks in his own house. According to WikiLeaks, the CIA’s “hacking arsenal” was “circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner.” While it is possible that the unauthorized circulation occurred after Brennan’s departure, in January 2017, the documents themselves date from 2013 to 2016, years when Brennan was pushing through his internal overhaul.
In November, Reuters published a long report on Brennan’s re-organization plan, which concluded the plan would involve “weakening the role of the Directorate of Operations.” The CIA has long had internal friction between Operations and Analysis. The Intercept reported in November last year that Trump’s national security team is considering reversing Brennan’s reforms. The most controversial part of Brennan’s re-organization is the creation of ten new “mission centers,” based around individual issues and regions, that brought analysts and career case officers together on a single staff. Some in Operations saw Brennan as representative of perceived defects in the analyst culture—data-driven, risk-adverse, with an increasing bias for signals intelligence over on-the-ground human sources.
A former CIA employee from the directorate of operations, who asked not be named because of the classified nature of their work, said many inside the agency were critical of Brennan’s reforms. “The joke we’d tell about Brennan was that big ops carry big risk, little ops carry little risk, and no ops carry no risk,” they said.
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/08/c...
What if the CIA wanted to USE the vulnerabilities they discovered and claim they were intrusions by foreign agents? I mean, if someone wanted to plot a thriller. Like if a former CIA chief was attempting to mobilize a propaganda campaign to organize a coup against a duly elected president.
As Hillary would say “Horrorific!”
Was Brennan's past a prelude to his future

C Curious Barack Obama Connections. (I admit that I voted for Obama. Twice. He talked a good talk and I was deceived.)
a. Jesuit-trained Muslim-friendly John O. Brennan (1954-) as his counterterrorism czar,
Remember, this was the guy who hacked the Intelligence Committee's computers under Diane Feinstein.
b. along with Egyptian-born Dalia Mogahed (1974-) as the first veiled Muslim woman to serve in the White House, and
c. Detroit-connected Rashad Hussain (1978-) as his rep. to the Muslim world and special envoy to the free-speech-hating 57-member Org. of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Muslim U.N., Mogahed admits to support of Fethullah Gulen and his plan to restore the Ottoman Empire complete with caliphate. No surprise,
d. Obama appointed the first-ever African-Am. atty. gen. Eric Himpton Holder Jr. (1951-), whose firm was one of the leading attorney firms in getting civilian trials on U.S. soil for Islamic terrorist detainees in Guantanamo Bay prison
e. U.S. solicitor gen. Elena Kagan (1960-)for the U.S. Supreme Court. In May 2009 as solicitor gen. she filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court againstthe claims of the victims of 9/11, arguing that the Saudi govt. and royal family should be immune from lawsuits by U.S. citizens and/or in U.S. courts because they have "sovereign immunity"
f. James M. Cole for U.S. deputy atty. gen., a partner of the Bryan Cave LLP law firm that represented Saudi Prince Naif Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, one of the defendants in the lawsuit by the 9/11 victims against Saudi Arabia.
g. On June 5, 2009 Janet Napolitano appointed Muslim Arab-American Kareem Shora to the Homeland Security advisory Council (HSAC),
h. January 20, 2009-March 2013 - John Brennan was Assistant to President Barack Obama for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
Brennan was followed Oct. 2010 by Mohamed Elibiary, a fan of Ayatollah Khomeini, Hamas, Sayyid Qutb, and CAIR, who was given access by the Obama admin. to intel info., then allegedly leaked some of it to the press for political gain.

U.S. agricultural negotiator regardless of the objections of Kirsten Gillibrand
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's Response to Islam Siddiqui, Monday, February 22, 2010
In October, I wrote about President Obama’s nomination of Islam Siddiqui, a former lobbyist for the pesticide industry, to an important government post. An outpouring of grassroots protest has helped delay (and hopefully derail) his Senate confirmation.

Regardless of Obama's supposed Environmental credentials, Islam A. Siddiqui became the chief U.S. agricultural negotiator.
Published on August 03, 2018 12:18
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