John Brennan
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Contents
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". [1]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." [2][3] 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.[4]
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 |
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| Meroë Park | CIA/Executive Director | May 2013 | 2017 |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Date |
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| 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 |
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| Bilderberg/2017 | 1 June 2017 | 4 June 2017 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 65th Bilderberg Meeting |
