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2020-12-10 Home Front: Politix
Why Does Corporate Media Amplify John Brennan's Neverending Lies?
[Federalist] Former Obama administration Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan lies. He doesn’t just lie in the sense of speaking hyperbolically, spinning events, or painting in shades of gray out of purported fealty to national security considerations. Brennan tells outright falsehoods, in venues from television studios to Congress, on matters of utmost importance.

One must ask: Why does corporate media continue to give someone who has proved to be a uniquely deceptive character, whose most noteworthy activity since leaving government has been spewing invective against the president on Twitter, valuable airtime?

Brennan Lies About Russiagate

In his latest public display of dishonesty, Brennan took to "Fox News Sunday" to repeat untruths regarding the Obama administration’s actions regarding then-president-elect Donald Trump and Russia. According to Brennan, "There was no spying on Donald Trump’s campaign." There was. Of the Steele dossier, Brennan said it "was not used in any way to undergird the judgments that came out of the intelligence community assessment about the Russian actions in the 2016 election." It was.

Brennan’s whoppers, however, are not limited to Russiagate. Brennan might have perjured himself when, in May 2017, as in his latest Fox hit, he delinked the Steele dossier from the intelligence community assessment in congressional testimony.

In March 2014, Brennan lied to Congress when he denied allegations from then-Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein that CIA officials had hacked the computers of Senate Intelligence Committee staffers while they were assembling their report on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program. In June 2011, then-chief counterterrorism adviser Brennan lied when he denied that there had "been a single collateral death" as a consequence of the CIA’s drone program.

As critics, particularly on the left, have chronicled, Brennan’s record of deceit is long. He also appears to have embellished details about the Osama bin Laden raid, shown himself to be hypocritical in leaking while denouncing the practice, and at best laughably politically correct in stating that the CIA does not "steal secrets. We uncover. We discover. We reveal. We obtain. We solicit — all of that." If the CIA does not "steal secrets," we might be in even more trouble as a nation than even the most pessimistic of us could have imagined.

What Brennan has said about Trump, that he is "lying routinely to the American people without compunction, intentionally fueling divisions in our country and actively working to degrade the imperfect but critical institutions that serve us," would seem to be in many ways the ultimate projection when one considers Brennan’s dishonesty, vitriol, and continued support of Russiagate.

All of this is to say, Brennan has shown himself to be utterly lacking in credibility before even digging into the disastrous Obama administration record, Russiagate aside, and his support of its most dubious elements.

The Media Doesn’t Care About the Truth

So why should the former CIA director be presented as an authority figure worthy of opining on important matters? What value does his commentary provide viewers? Is it not irresponsible to give a platform to a guest who shows such little regard for the truth and effectively for the American people whose trust he so damaged while in government? Are we to believe members of corporate media are ignorant of this record, or do they just not care?

Candor is apparently not a prerequisite for garnering media coverage and, in fact, might deter it. Employees of media outlets might believe that interviews with policymakers and ex-officials ought to be about reinforcing the biases of their viewers, rather than informing them by illuminating the truth.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-10 02:12|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 IMO, the heading confuses cause & effect.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-10 05:37||   2020-12-10 05:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Hiya, g(r)omgoru.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-10 05:42||   2020-12-10 05:42|| Front Page Top

#3 ^😊
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-10 06:00||   2020-12-10 06:00|| Front Page Top

#4 with no repercussion for the lies? Expect more
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-12-10 07:04||   2020-12-10 07:04|| Front Page Top

#5 He is the 'shadow president' seeking to regain his power. It would appear he and the Deep State may have been successful. Bush, Obama, Biden, the onerous Harris, all hand selected pawns, sock puppets. The voting machine mystery, no real mystery actually. Simply a tool weaponized for domestic use.

Just my opinion.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-10 07:12||   2020-12-10 07:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Brennan on Fox: Brennan went on to acknowledge that there were mistakes in the FBI's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the early stages of the Russia investigation, but he insisted "that doesn't mean that there was criminal intent, and there was no spying on Donald Trump's campaign."
Posted by b 2020-12-10 07:51||   2020-12-10 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 "that doesn't mean that there was criminal intent, and there was no spying on Donald Trump's campaign."

His lips are glued on really good!
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-12-10 07:58||   2020-12-10 07:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref #6: ...mistakes in the FBI's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

"Mistakes" yes, a very flimsy cover for action.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-10 08:05||   2020-12-10 08:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Brennan is a China agent. He is loyal only to China and not to America.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-12-10 11:47||   2020-12-10 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Pay no attention to China!

Look, over there: RUSSKIES! The Red Orange Menace!

Repeat after me: Russia! Russia! Russia!!
Posted by Jeremiah Bucket2944 2020-12-10 12:01||   2020-12-10 12:01|| Front Page Top

#11 A stint in general population of the Graybar Hotel might cure the lying problem.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-12-10 14:56||   2020-12-10 14:56|| Front Page Top

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