It’s My CIA Now

There is a great anecdote from the early days of the Clinton presidency when, during a ceremony, there was a fly-by by some Air Force jets. One in the president’s group started booing and was shushed by another who said, “It’s our military now.” Now, President Obama was exhibiting equivalent partisanship in yesterday’s news conference when he expressed “full faith” in John Brennan, the Director of the CIA, who is now under fire for spying on Congress ... and then lying about it. In effect Obama is saying, "It's my CIA now."

As Paul Mirengoff in the Powerline blog put it:

It’s sad when a U.S. president is more outraged by CIA efforts to obtain information from hardcore terrorists than by CIA spying on the legislative branch of government. The post-9/11 CIA interrogators were trying to protect this country from deadly attacks. The Obama era CIA snoops were trying to protect the CIA from the Senate. 

To read the full context of this quote see: Powerline Blog.

I have never been a fan of John Brennan as I view him as a self-serving hack who puts his loyalty to the president ahead of his loyalty to his country … see: Acolytes and Heads Should Roll. I believe that, like many others of his ilk that have infected our government, John Brennan could be a very dangerous person in his position of power. Now, even two Democrat Senators are calling for his resignation… see: Politico Story. And I’m reasonably certain that another Democrat, Senator Feinstein, would not be saddened by such an event.