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The former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has added his name to growing calls for the president to be ousted on grounds that he is unfit for the job, arguing that the US constitution’s 25th amendment addressing involuntary removal from office was “written with Donald Trump in mind”.

Brennan, who served as head of the spy agency during Barack Obama’s presidency, told MS Now on Saturday that Trump’s recent volatile remarks about destroying Iranian civilization and the danger he posed to so many lives merited his removal from the Oval Office.

“This person is clearly unhinged,” he said. “I think the 25th amendment was written with Donald Trump in mind.”

Brennan added that Trump was too much of a liability to be allowed to continue to be commander in chief. He had immense firepower at his disposal, including the US nuclear arsenal.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

John Brennan served as Obama's CIA Director for four years. During that time - I've been told - foreign governments infiltrated our media and party establishment and legislature, corrupted our democratic process, and handed a known agent of a foreign government the position of Chief Executive.

This known agent was a co-conspirator of another well-known blackmailer and professional pedophile, serving as an agent of a foreign intelligence service within the United States for over four decades.

The CIA response to this infiltration was to... do nothing.

Meanwhile, agents within the CIA have manufactured consent for wars against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea for as long as our current president has been a known fence for the Russian mob. They have collaborated with the known blackmailer/pedophile for just as long. And - upon taking office - they faithfully continued to fulfill their duty as agents of a corrupt and despotic president, including through illegal arrests, extraditions, torture, arms sales, drug trafficking, and sabotage.

Why the fuck does the CIA still exist again?

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To serve and protect pedophiles

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 14 points 5 days ago

Heyhey, the CIA also protects american businesses abroad, most of which are owned by pedophiles obviously.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're pointing fingers at the wrong agency. CIA handles foreign shit. FBI handles domestic shit.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

CIA handles foreign shit. FBI handles domestic shit.

The DHS makes this distinction moot. We've been crossing the streams publicly since it was officially instantiated via Bush through the creation of the OHS and then the HSA Act of 2002. The two agencies have been operating hand-in-glove behind the scenes since the CIA's precursor - the OSS - was incorporated during WW2. Even then, much of the modern CIA is merely an extension of the functions of the FBI on an international scale. They employ all the same strategies, employ the same leadership structure, and serve the same socio-economic purpose.

John Brennan and Robert Mueller / James Comey even filled the same political role under Obama. They promoted reactionary political views from within the liberal government, distributed misinformation to undermine peaceful coexistence with historic geopolitical adversaries, and continued the Bush Era practice of illegal arrests, extraditions, torture, and assassination while draping themselves in liberal language to justify it.

Brennan and Comey both publicly advanced accusations against the Obama administration that gave Donald Trump a path to the presidency.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The CIA exists to operate the honeypots.