For weeks, former CIA Director John Brennan has hinted that he believed Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation would end with the indictment of President Trump or another member of the Trump family.
Now that Attorney General William Barr has received Mueller's report, and is not considering charges against the Trump family, Brennan is singing a different tune.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who for weeks promoted the idea that Trump is an "Unwitting asset" of Russian President Vladimir Putin, maintained that the cloud of suspicion had not been lifted-indeed, he said this even before the summary of the report had been released.
"I doubt that the Mueller report is going to explain the strange and disturbing deferential behavior of the president toward Vladimir Putin, his refusal to call out the Russians for their meddling in the election, to the extent I assert in my book, I think the Russians actually turned the election for Trump," Clapper told CNN. Clapper, readers may recall, once lied under oath to Congress about the National Security Agency's warrantless electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens.
The "Deep state" theory-the idea that a shadow government of military and intelligence officials secretly runs the government, or is working to subvert Trump's White House-currently beloved by many conservative activists is excessively conspiratorial.
Neither the military, nor the CIA, nor the FBI, nor any other branch of the federal government is immune to politics.
Blindly trusting the intelligence community has had disastrous results, and one of the few admirable things about Trump is that he's not been afraid to disregard the opinions of those who seem to always prefer the military option over the diplomatic one.
http://reason.com/blog/2019/03/26/mueller-report-john-brennan-collusion
Now that Attorney General William Barr has received Mueller's report, and is not considering charges against the Trump family, Brennan is singing a different tune.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who for weeks promoted the idea that Trump is an "Unwitting asset" of Russian President Vladimir Putin, maintained that the cloud of suspicion had not been lifted-indeed, he said this even before the summary of the report had been released.
"I doubt that the Mueller report is going to explain the strange and disturbing deferential behavior of the president toward Vladimir Putin, his refusal to call out the Russians for their meddling in the election, to the extent I assert in my book, I think the Russians actually turned the election for Trump," Clapper told CNN. Clapper, readers may recall, once lied under oath to Congress about the National Security Agency's warrantless electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens.
The "Deep state" theory-the idea that a shadow government of military and intelligence officials secretly runs the government, or is working to subvert Trump's White House-currently beloved by many conservative activists is excessively conspiratorial.
Neither the military, nor the CIA, nor the FBI, nor any other branch of the federal government is immune to politics.
Blindly trusting the intelligence community has had disastrous results, and one of the few admirable things about Trump is that he's not been afraid to disregard the opinions of those who seem to always prefer the military option over the diplomatic one.
http://reason.com/blog/2019/03/26/mueller-report-john-brennan-collusion
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