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JonLP24

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Sun May 19, 2019, 05:49 PM May 2019

Former CIA chief Brennan to brief Dems on Iran

Source: PBS

WASHINGTON — House Democrats will hear from former CIA Director John Brennan about the situation in Iran, inviting him to speak next week amid heightened concerns over the Trump administration’s sudden moves in the region.

Brennan, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, is scheduled to talk to House Democrats at a private weekly caucus meeting Tuesday, according to a Democratic aide and another person familiar with the private meeting. Both were granted anonymity to discuss the meeting.

The invitation to Brennan and Wendy Sherman, a former State Department official and top negotiator of the Iran nuclear deal, offers counterprogramming to the Trump administration’s closed-door briefing for lawmakers also planned for Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Democratic lawmakers are likely to attend both sessions.

The Trump administration recently sent an aircraft carrier and other military resources to the Persian Gulf region, and withdrew nonessential personnel from Iraq, raising alarm among Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill over the possibility of a confrontation with Iran.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/former-cia-chief-brennan-to-brief-dems-on-iran

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Brennan has openly said the things about trump we all wish would get public airing. mpcamb May 2019 #1

mpcamb

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1. Brennan has openly said the things about trump we all wish would get public airing.
Tue May 21, 2019, 07:50 AM
May 2019

"When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you."

tariffs on steel and aluminum imports
"You show an amazing albeit unsurprising ignorance of how technology, automation, and the attendant evolution of economics and societies have transformed the world," he said in response to a Trump tweet on March 7. "Your simple minded policies — imposition of tariffs — have the potential to seriously damage our future prosperity."


To Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions.


“... Trump charts his every move according to a calculus of how it will personally help or hurt him,” he added. “His strategy is to undercut real, potential and perceived opponents; his focus is to win at all costs, irrespective of truth, ethics, decency and – many would argue – the law.”

I like him. He should be on the ticket in 2020.

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