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From: leroysoetoro@barackobama.com

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/12/27/politico-durham-focusing- attention-john-brennan/

A week ago the NY Times reported that the ongoing Durham investigation was looking at former CIA Director John Brennan’s possible role in pushing the Steele dossier. Today Politico published a piece which reads like push
back against the Durham investigation from the CIA:

Intelligence community veterans say the Durham probe could force Haspel to choose between protecting her agency from Trump’s wrath and bowing to
Barr’s wishes; they point to FBI chief Chris Wray, who has found himself
at odds with the president in recent weeks over a watchdog report about
the bureau’s conduct in the Russia probe.

And they say the Barr-Durham probe represents overreach by an attorney
general who seems to have already made up his mind and is bent on imposing
his own skeptical view of the Russia investigation on the intelligence community…

“It is unprecedented and inappropriate to do this via Justice department prosecutors who will tend to apply the standards of a courtroom to the
more nuanced, and often more challenging world of intelligence analysis,”
said John McLaughlin, who served as both deputy director and acting
director of the CIA from 2000-2004…

“I find this troubling and I suspect many inside the intelligence
community do as well,” [CIA veteran John] Sipher said, specifically
pointing to the CIA’s Brennan records review. The inquiry “was initiated
and sold in a partisan manner and this news only highlights that concern,”
he said.

So who are these folks expressing concern about the Durham investigation?
John McLaughlin is a former CIA Deputy Director who said last month “Thank
God for the deep state” when talking about the push to impeach President
Trump [Notice that John Brennan is sitting next to him]:

And John Sipher (great name for a CIA agent) has a Twitter account with a
blue check mark. You’ll be shocked to learn that he is also a partisan
rooting for impeachment:


John Sipher
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@john_sipher
If Republican politicians are too cowardly to admit the obvious, maybe we should rethink the primary process. It just encourages extremists. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/us/politics/trump-impeachment- republicans.html …?

Forty percent of Republican members of Congress have either retired or
lost at the ballot box since President Trump took office.
Fear and Loyalty: How Donald Trump Took Over the Republican Party
The president demands complete fealty, and as the impeachment hearings
showed, he has largely attained it. To cross him is to risk losing a
future in the Republican Party.

nytimes.com
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John Sipher
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@john_sipher
A lot of the outraged fake-victim Trump supporters are calling me
seditious today. Must be a new word for them.

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Sipher has specifically defended Brennan on the dossier:


John Sipher
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@john_sipher
You ought to find some new high level sources. You old ones lied. https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1110987950605680642 …

Senator Rand Paul
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@RandPaul
BREAKING: A high-level source tells me it was Brennan who insisted that
the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in the Intelligence Report... Brennan should be asked to testify under oath in Congress ASAP.

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Here’s another one related to the dossier (found by the Federalist’s Sean Davis):


Sean Davis
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@seanmdav
There's garden-variety dumb, there's paint chip-eating stupid, and then
there's this. https://twitter.com/john_sipher/status/924022940034895874 …

John Sipher
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@john_sipher
Replying to @shaneharris
There is no way that the dossier would be used as part of an official analytical report.

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You can scroll through his feed on your own but it’s 70% about
impeachment.

If there’s nothing to see here, what are Sipher and McLaughlin so worried about? Durham has a good reputation as a straight-shooter. Why not let him
run his investigation and follow it wherever it leads? Maybe he won’t find anything but if he does, shouldn’t we know about it? After all, the
Horowitz investigation found that Nunes’ memo was basically correct about
the FISA application while the Schiff counter-memo was wrong. The FISA
court has already demanded changes from the FBI in the wake of the
Horowitz report to improve the process. Horowitz also found that an FBI
agent had intentionally lied to the FISA court about Carter Page’s
involvement with the CIA. So where is the downside? All of this seems significant and worth knowing even if it’s not what Sipher and McLaughlin
want to hear.



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