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After the Democrat administration was voted out of office, Brennan used his national security clearance for personal gain as an [[NBC News]] consultant<ref>https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/brennan-clapper-security-clearance/</ref> and threatened the President of the United States<ref>[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/25/tucker_carlson_creeping_authoritarianism_is_already_here_and_john_brennan_is_the_face_of_it.html]</ref> and Congress<ref>https://wrko.iheart.com/content/2018-05-21-john-brennan-threatens-mcconnell-and-ryan/</ref> on several occasions.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/18/nolte-threats-against-trump-made-by-john-brennan-and-samantha-power-must-be-investigated/amp/]</ref>
 
After the Democrat administration was voted out of office, Brennan used his national security clearance for personal gain as an [[NBC News]] consultant<ref>https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/brennan-clapper-security-clearance/</ref> and threatened the President of the United States<ref>[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/25/tucker_carlson_creeping_authoritarianism_is_already_here_and_john_brennan_is_the_face_of_it.html]</ref> and Congress<ref>https://wrko.iheart.com/content/2018-05-21-john-brennan-threatens-mcconnell-and-ryan/</ref> on several occasions.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/18/nolte-threats-against-trump-made-by-john-brennan-and-samantha-power-must-be-investigated/amp/]</ref>
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A man who tried to rig an election, remove a democratically elected president, killed some 4,700 people in drone strikes<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/473541/</ref> - 600 of which were innocents - hacked into the U.S. State Department and his Senate overseers, and as the [[Snowden]] revelations reveal, is capable of wiretapping and [[blackmail]]ing the President, Supreme Court Justices, Members of Congress and journalists,<ref><small>[[Daniel Ellsberg]], in responding to a question about why should people care, said: "Do they really believe that real [[democracy]] is viable, when one branch of government, the Executive, knows or can know every detail of every private communication (or credit card transaction, or movement) of: every journalist; every source to every journalist; every member of Congress and their staffs; every judge, at every level up to the Supreme Court? Do they think that every one of these people "has nothing to hide," nothing that could be used to blackmail them or manipulate them, or neutralize their dissent to Executive policies, or influence voting behavior? Is investigative journalism, or aggressive Congressional investigation of the Executive, or court restraints on Executive practices, really possible with that amount of transparency to the Executive of their private and professional lives and associations? And without any of those checks, the kind of democracy you have is that of the German Democratic Republic in [[East Germany]], with its [[Stasi]] (which had a minuscule fraction of the surveillance capability the NSA has now, but enough to turn a fraction of the population of East Germany into secret Stasi informants)."</small>
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A man who tried to rig an election, remove a democratically elected president, killed some 4,700 people in drone strikes<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/473541/</ref>—600 of which were innocents, hacked into the U.S. State Department and his Senate overseers and, as the [[Snowden]] revelations reveal, is capable of wiretapping and [[blackmail]]ing the President, Supreme Court Justices, Members of Congress and journalists,<ref><small>[[Daniel Ellsberg]], in responding to a question about why should people care, said: "Do they really believe that real [[democracy]] is viable, when one branch of government, the Executive, knows or can know every detail of every private communication (or credit card transaction, or movement) of: every journalist; every source to every journalist; every member of Congress and their staffs; every judge, at every level up to the Supreme Court? Do they think that every one of these people "has nothing to hide," nothing that could be used to blackmail them or manipulate them, or neutralize their dissent to Executive policies, or influence voting behavior? Is investigative journalism, or aggressive Congressional investigation of the Executive, or court restraints on Executive practices, really possible with that amount of transparency to the Executive of their private and professional lives and associations? And without any of those checks, the kind of democracy you have is that of the German Democratic Republic in [[East Germany]], with its [[Stasi]] (which had a minuscule fraction of the surveillance capability the NSA has now, but enough to turn a fraction of the population of East Germany into secret Stasi informants)."</small>
 
https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/highlights-from-daniel-ellsbergas-reddit-ama-on-edward-snowden-and-nsa-surveillance/</ref> is capable of anything.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/03/19/former-cia-chief-brennan-running-scared/</ref>
 
https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/highlights-from-daniel-ellsbergas-reddit-ama-on-edward-snowden-and-nsa-surveillance/</ref> is capable of anything.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/03/19/former-cia-chief-brennan-running-scared/</ref>
  
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