Majority Say Brennan Violated Checks and Balances, and Must Go

[rhett o rick]

Posted by Dan Froomkin Oct. 1, 2014 on “The Intercept”
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/01/majority-say-brennan-violated-checks-balances-must-go/

According to a new poll, a sizeable majority of American voters believe CIA officials violated the constitutional system of checks and balances when they hacked into computers being used by Senate staffers investigating torture.

And by a two-to-one margin (54 percent to 25 percent, with 22 percent not sure) they believe that CIA Director John Brennan should resign on account of the misleading statements he made about the incident.

The poll found overwhelming public support for release of a long-completed report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The report is said to disclose abuse that was more brutal, systematic and widespread than generally recognized, and to expose a pattern of deceit in the Bush administration’s descriptions of the program to Congress and the public.

Calls for Brennan’s ouster emerged quickly after Feinstein’s floor speech in March, describing a blatant violation of the principle that Congress conducts oversight over the executive branch, not vice versa. Brennan quickly issued an angry denial whose qualifications were widely overlooked. A CIA Inspector General’s report, whose conclusions were made public in July, confirmed Feinstein’s allegations.

Some might believe that Brennan has a higher pay grade than the President. Just sayin'.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. We're on it, relax.

We have the names of all respondents who've aided the enemy by embarrassing Brennan, and Brennan himself will be present during their enhanced interrogation sessions to see the fear in their eyes.

[rhett o rick]

2. Hey! Which Manny is this?

[MannyGoldstein]

5. None of 'em.

[KoKo]

3. Recommend....hopefully something will be done.

Maybe if DiFi pushes hard enough. Although she's hardly trustworthy.

[rhett o rick]

4. I think it's been put in the "wait until people forget" pile. nm

[MFrohike]

6. Why just him?

It's pretty clear that the agency is out of control when its head proposes spying on Congress, its author of life and death, and his underlings say, "Sure boss!" It's time to take a long hard look at the Agency and determine what few parts of it might be worth preserving in a new agency. The old one has worn out its welcome.

[rhett o rick]

7. Hopefully you get a good replacement and he/she could decide who else needs to go. nm

[MFrohike]

8. I wasn't clear

I meant get rid of the entire agency. The past few years have showed us massive overreach by the intelligence community. When they spy on Congress, it's time to start over. Make a new agency with new people and a new institutional culture. The old one is clearly unfit for service.