While cooling his heals outside of government for a brief time after running the Torture program, Brennan hitched his wagon to his ideological kinsman, Barack Hussein Obama, as candidate for President in 2008 over [[John McCain]], whom many viewed as a patriot. Brennan started his own consulting firm, began contributing money to Obama and became an advisor. | While cooling his heals outside of government for a brief time after running the Torture program, Brennan hitched his wagon to his ideological kinsman, Barack Hussein Obama, as candidate for President in 2008 over [[John McCain]], whom many viewed as a patriot. Brennan started his own consulting firm, began contributing money to Obama and became an advisor. |