Did the CIA Chief Just Dare Obama to Fire Him? -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast
Under a sudden avalanche of criticism, CIA director John Brennan said President Obama can ‘ask me to go.’ Will he?
The normally cool and calm director of the CIA, John Brennan, may have flinched Tuesday. After a scathing speech from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the committee that oversees his agency, Brennan largely defended the CIA from charges that it illegally spied on Senate staffers poring through documents related to the agency’s black site program.
But the CIA chief also left open the prospect that he may have been wrong. “If I did something wrong,” Brennan said. “I will go to the president and I will explain to him what I did and what the findings were. And he is the one who can ask me to stay or to go.”
In Washington, where politicians have mastered the art of the mea culpa, those words would not normally warrant much attention. But for John Brennan, a man entrusted with secrets on everything from Obama’s drone war to his cyber espionage campaign against Iran, Brennan’s talk amounts to a kind of dare.
Read more ....
Yesterday's Posts:
U.S. Senate Intelligence Chairman Accuses The CIA Of Spying On Congress
CIA Director John Brennan Denies Reports That The CIA Has Spied On The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee
Is A Double Standard At Play As US Congressional Anger Grows Over CIA Of Spying Of Their Computers?
My Comment: Yesterday's US Senate blowup over CIA spying was unprecedented. I suspect that if answers are not forthcoming .... US Senators are going to pressure President Obama to replace John Brennan asap.
The below video is a summary on why there is this dispute.
No comments:
Post a Comment