Donald Trump recounted the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the following manner: He [Baghdadi] died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming. The compound had been cleared by this time, with people either surrendering or being shot and killed. Eleven young children were moved out of the house…
Tag: John Brennan
Hey, John Brennan! The attacks happened in France, not the U.S.!
Leave it to CIA director John Brennan to use terrorist attacks in France to prove that the U.S. Constitution, with its fussy concerns about general warrants, cruel and unusual punishments, and ex post facto laws—which all seem so 18th century these days—needs to be tossed out the window. “In the past several years, because of…
John Brennan, liar? No, John Brennan, super liar.
Read, if you can, Conor Friedersdorf’s tale of endless hypocrisy and deceit from CIA head John Brennan and his assorted minions and ganifs at the agency. Yes, your tax dollars at work.
Ah, Brennan! Ah, humanity!
If you haven’t read Herman Melville’s more than classic short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street,” well, you should. Bartleby, as the title suggests, was a scrivener on Wall Street, someone who copied documents in long hand prior to the development of the typewriter. At the outset a compulsive worker, Bartleby gradually…
Dianne Feinstein, Pretty but Dumb, or Pretty Dumb?
Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, led off her committee’s hearing on John Brennan’s nomination to be head of the CIA by proudly announcing that the CIA’s “Death from the Skies” drone program, which is pretty much John’s baby, had been able to keep civilian casualties “in the single digits” for each year…
Death and Sex
Back in the day, when porno was illegal, clever liberals used to wonder why it was OK to make films of people being tortured and murdered, but not to make films of people making love. Well, when it comes to being the director of the CIA, we’re still back in the Fifties: torture and murder…
Brennan, John, utter incompetency of in his position as U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
“Thinking about that from a visual perspective, here is bin Laden, who has been calling for these attacks, living in this million dollar-plus compound, living in an area that is far removed from the front, hiding behind women who were put in front of him as a shield,” Brennan said. “I think it really just…