CIA Director John Brennan tells the BBC that Trump's ideas are terrible

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CIA Director John Brennan tells the BBC that Trump's ideas are terrible

by Zack Beauchamp at Vox

http://www.vox.com/world/2016/12/1/13793608/cia-brennan-trump-bbc-interview

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On Wednesday morning, the BBC published excerpts from an interview with CIA Director John Brennan, the first time a serving head of America’s best-known spy agency has sat down with the British media, according to the BBC. Brennan’s comments are, unmistakably, a shot at Donald Trump. He calls Trump’s proposal to scrap the Iran deal “disastrous,” warns that “the overwhelming majority of CIA officers” oppose Trump’s call to bring back torture of suspected terrorists, and says the famously Putin-sympathetic Trump should “beware Russian promises.”

Brennan is stepping down from the CIA leadership on January 20, so he’ll never have to deal with President Trump directly. That means he’s free to do something as brazen as trash the incoming president on one of the world’s most-watched TV channels.

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Take his attack on Trump’s approach to the Iran deal, which Brennan calls “the height of folly.” He warns that doing so would allow Iran to simply restart its nuclear program.

This, as my colleague Zeeshan Aleem explains, is the consensus among even anti-deal experts and policymakers. That’s because of the way the deal is structured: Iran has already gotten the sanctions relief it was promised, but has yet to fully comply with the terms of the deal that dismantle its nuclear program. If Trump were to scrap the deal on day one, Iran would have everything it wanted without having to give up too much. It would have billions of new dollars as well, and a free hand to build a nuke without pesky international inspectors.


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[JI7]

1. can he do something about the fbi

[lanlady]

2. No, he can't

[suegeo]

3. Here's a link to the BBC article

About Brennan
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38149088

[applegrove]

4. Thanks for the Link.