John Brennan

John Brennan
Born	John Owen Brennan 1955-09-22 North Bergen, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	Fordham University, University of Texas, Austin
Spouse	Kathy Pokluda
Member of	Kissinger Associates
Party	Independent
Director of the CIA In office March 8, 2013 - January 20, 2017 Deputy David S. Cohen, Avril Haines Preceded by Michael Morell Succeeded by Meroë Park  United States Homeland Security Advisor In office January 20, 2009 - March 8, 2013 Preceded by Kenneth L. Wainstein Succeeded by Lisa Monaco  Acting “Director of the National Counterterrorism Center” In office August 27, 2004 - August 1, 2005

Career

Barack Obama nominated Brennan as his next director of the CIA on January 7, 2013.

Morris Davis, a former Chief Prosecutor for the Guantanamo Military Commissions compared Brennan to Omar Khadr, who was convicted of "committing murder in violation of the law of war". He suggested that Brennan's role in targeting individuals for CIA missile strikes was no more authorized than the throwing of the grenade Khadr was accused of.

On February 27, 2013, the Senate Intelligence Committee postponed a vote, expected to be taken the next day on the confirmation of Brennan until the following week. On March 5, the Intelligence Committee approved the nomination 12-3. The Senate was set to vote on Brennan's nomination on March 6, 2013. However, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul began a talking Senate filibuster of the vote, citing President Barack Obama and his administration's use of combat drones, stating “No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual. It goes against everything that we fundamentally believe in our country." Paul's filibuster continued for 13 hours, after which Brennan was confirmed by a vote of 63-34.

Banning of torture

John Brennan told NBC News that his agency will not engage in "enhanced interrogation" practices, including waterboarding — even if ordered to by a future president. "I will not agree to carry out some of these tactics and techniques I've heard bandied about because this institution needs to endure," he stated.

Michael Hastings

Global Research wrote in 2017 that "The WikiLeaks/Vault 7 dump strengthens the case against John Brennan, the CIA director that Stratfor stated was on a witch hunt against journalists when Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings was suspiciously killed after his late model car was almost certainly remote controlled to speed up to near 100 MPH prior to it exploding in June 2013."

 

A Quote by John Brennan

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Woke	“I’m increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days with what I see other white males say”	March 2021	New York Post

 

An appointment by John Brennan

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End
Meroë Park	CIA/Executive Director	May 2013	2017

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Date
CIA/Torture	“[T]he CIA inspector general’s office recently admitted to ‘mistakenly’ destroying their only copy of the classified report. Although CIA Director John Brennan possesses another copy of the torture report, he refuses to send a replacement to the internal watchdog’s office.”	17 May 2016

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2017	1 June 2017	4 June 2017	US Virginia Chantilly	The 65th Bilderberg Meeting

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