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Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan
John Owen Brennan (born September 22, 1955) is an American politician, who is currently serving as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama; officially his title was Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President. His responsibilities included overseeing plans to protect the country from terrorism and respond to natural disasters, and he met with the President daily. Previously, he advised Obama on foreign policy and Intelligence issues during the 2008 presidential campaign and transition. Brennan withdrew his name from consideration for Director of the CIA in the first Obama administration over concerns about his support for the use of torture by the CIA under President George W. Bush. Instead, Brennan was appointed Deputy National Security Advisor, a position which did not require Senate confirmation.
Brennan's 25 years with the CIA included work as a Near East and South Asia analyst, as station chief in Saudi Arabia, and as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. After leaving government service in 2005, Brennan became CEO of The Analysis Corporation, a security consulting business, and served as chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, an association of intelligence professionals.
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Quad City Times
January 27, 2018
A low point came last Veterans Day when, after meeting genially with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump derided Clapper, Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey as "political ... Brennan spent 25 years at the CIA before becoming President Obama's counterterrorism chief and CIA director.
ThinkProgress
January 24, 2018
Despite the senators' efforts, that CIA review remains hidden from both Congress and the public, leaving questions about whether the CIA lied to Congress and the White House. The three email threads recently released to ThinkProgress add new details to the story of how former Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO)ÃÂ ...
Wccftech
January 22, 2018
In one of these hacks, he also managed to access several sensitive documents about military and intelligence ops in Iran and Afghanistan from Brennan's private inbox. In one incident, Gamble took control of Brennan's wife's iPad by initiating a password reset, writing I own you on it. He also impersonatedÃÂ ...
CBS News
January 22, 2018
It was Pompeo's predecessor, former CIA Director John Brennan, who told Congress last year that he alerted the FBI to contacts between Russian officials and the Trump campaign, a central focus of the ongoing investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. O'Donnell asked Pompeo, "Have you seenÃÂ ...
Bradenton Herald
January 22, 2018
Former CIA director John Brennan, a frequent critic of Donald Trump, weighed in Monday on a variety of national security topics at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. Brennan expressed concern about Trump's susceptibility to flattery by foreign leaders and penchant for name-calling in the “twittersphere” asÃÂ ...
Leicester Mercury
January 19, 2018
Several sensitive documents were reportedly obtained from Mr Brennan's private inbox, including a 47-page application for top secret security clearance. A Comcast cable TV and broadband account belonging to James Clapper, director of national intelligence under President Barack Obama, was alsoÃÂ ...
Pendleton Times-Post
January 19, 2018
ANDERSON — Former director of the CIA John Brennan is scheduled to speak at an open forum at Anderson University from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today, Thursday, Jan. 18. He is set to talk at York Performance Hall following a meeting with Anderson University students majoring in national security studies.
Greensburg Daily News
January 12, 2018
Brennan was director of CIA from 2013 to 2017 and assistant to the president for Homeland Security. During his first stint at CIA (1980-2005), he was the daily intelligence briefer to President Bill Clinton, chief of station in the Middle East, deputy executive director, and the first director of the NationalÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
January 11, 2018
... to immigrants being from "shithole countries." "Lady Liberty, our founding fathers, and generations of right-thinking Americans are all weeping tonight over the atrocious comments attributed to Donald Trump, who continues to demonstrate daily that he is a deeply flawed person," Brennan tweeted.
The Herald Bulletin
January 9, 2018
Brennan was director of CIA from 2013 to 2017 and assistant to the president for Homeland Security. During his first stint at CIA (1980-2005), he was the daily intelligence briefer to President Bill Clinton, chief of station in the Middle East, deputy executive director, and the first director of the NationalÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 2, 2018
"With wholesale condemnation of Iran and nuclear deal over past year, Trump Admin squandered opportunity to bolster reformists in Tehran and prospects for peaceful political reform in Iran," Brennan tweeted. "Bluster is neither a strategy nor a mechanism for exercise of U.S. power and influence."ÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
December 23, 2017
Brennan tweeted that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and top FBI lawyer James Baker "epitomize integrity, competence, and respect for rule of law." "Not surprised @realDonaldTrump fears them, along with the rest of FBI," continued Brennan, who served as CIA chief under former President Obama.
Washington Examiner
December 21, 2017
Joining Twitter by issuing his first tweets on Thursday, former CIA Director John Brennan signaled he has a clear intent. After initially tweeting in memorial of the Lockerbie bombing (in which a CIA officer died), Brennan unleashed on President Trump.
The Independent
December 31, 1999
A teenager who bragged about gaining access to the accounts of senior US intelligence officials was annoyed at the "corrupt and cold-blooded" American government, a court has heard. Kane Gamble, 18, targeted high profile figures such as then CIA chief John Brennan and deputy director of the FBI MarkÃÂ ...
Greensburg Daily News
December 31, 1999
ANDERSON - Artificial intelligence, relationships between the intelligence community and Congress, and cryptocurrencies were on the minds of Anderson University students Thursday as they met with former Central Intelligence Agency Director John O. Brennan. “Be prepared to be addicted. Once it getsÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Updated | A British teenager managed to obtain access to sensitive U.S. plans about intelligence operations in different Middle East countries by acting as former CIA Director John Brennan, a court heard on Friday. Kane Gamble, 18, researched Brennan and used the information he gathered to speak to anÃÂ ...
PanAm Post
December 7, 2017
This includes Obama's CIA director John O. Brennan, FBI director James Comey, and their deputies, who have emerged as highly partisan operatives, who fall outrageously short of the standards of impartiality and objectivity expected of individuals heading up the most sensitive investigations within the FBIÃÂ ...
Yale News
December 7, 2017
John Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told a standing-room-only crowd of students in Linsly-Chittenden Hall to use their talents and the benefits of their Yale education to serve. “Think of what you can do to give back to this country,” Brennan said. “As Yale students, you have anÃÂ ...
Yale Daily News (blog)
December 7, 2017
Former CIA Director John Brennan shared his insights on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, cybersecurity, counterterrorism and Middle Eastern conflict with a packed room at Linsly-Chittenden Hall on Wednesday evening. The event, co-sponsored by The Politic and the PoynterÃÂ ...
Xinhua
December 1, 2017
Turkey issues arrest warrant for former CIA official over failed coup ... In April, Turkey targeted, among others, former CIA director John Brennan, Senator Chuck Schumer from New York and Henri Barkey, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in ...
Yale News
December 1, 2017
Former CIA director John Brennan will take part in a conversation on Wednesday, Dec. 6, with Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at the Law School. His visit is co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and The Politic. “A Conversation with John Brennan” will take place ...
Vanity Fair
November 30, 2017
It's “All but a Done Deal”: Insiders Expect C.I.A. Director Mike Pompeo to Take Over the State Department ... Notably, Pompeo came under fire for comments he made about Russian interference in the 2016 election and found himself publicly at odds with his predecessor John Brennan. (Pompeo did publicly ...
Slate Magazine
November 30, 2017
The New York Times reports today that Tillerson's likely replacement at State will be Mike Pompeo, currently director of the CIA, and Pompeo may be ... He has recently dissed James Clapper and John Brennan—longtime intelligence professionals who held senior positions during the Obama ...
Business Insider
November 13, 2017
Former CIA Director John Brennan shot back at President Trump on Sunday for “trying to delegitimize” the country's intelligence officials and their unanimous conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Brennan said Trump's inability to say unequivocally Russia interfered in the the USÂ ...
UT The Daily Texan
November 13, 2017
Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan briefs reporters at the White House in Washington, in this Oct. 29, 2010 file photo. The White House says the president will announce Brennan's nomination as his next director of the Central Intelligence Agency ...
Washington Examiner
November 12, 2017
“By not confronting the issue directly and not acknowledging to Putin that we know you are responsible for this, I think he's giving Putin a pass,” Brennan said on CNN's "State of the Union." “It demonstrates to Mr. Putin that Donald Trump can be played by foreign leaders who are going to appeal to his ego ...
Vox
November 10, 2017
On October 19, CIA Director Mike Pompeo took the stage at a .... with a spokesperson for former CIA Director John Brennan relaying he was ...
Washington Examiner
November 2, 2017
To fully understand it, one must look no further than John Brennan – the ... went on to become President Barack Obama's director of the CIA.
Business Insider
November 1, 2017
Former CIA Director Director John Brennan was blunt about his lack of confidence in President Donald Trump in an interview with The Atlantic.
The Atlantic
November 1, 2017
“There's never been a previous president, at least in my lifetime and experience, who had the impulsivity that Mr. Trump exhibits,” said Brennan, ...
NewBostonPost (blog)
October 27, 2017
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed Wednesday that former CIA Director John Brennan “touted” the now-infamous Trump ...
CBS News
October 18, 2017
Former CIA Director John Brennan says he's worried about President Trump's handling of North Korea, and he feels the possibility of military ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 6, 2017
At the time of the offences information obtained from John Brennan, the then director of the CIA, was posted online by a person using the alias ...
Business Insider
October 3, 2017
On his way to Fordham University one day in the 1970s, a college student named John Brennan spotted an advertisement in The New York ...
HuffPost
September 30, 2017
Former CIA Director John Brennan released a statement on Saturday through his former deputy chief of staff, Nick Shapiro, defending National ...
Business Insider
September 27, 2017
John Brennan's stint as director of the CIA ended when President Donald Trump took office in January 2017. Since then, Brennan has had a ...
Business Insider
September 26, 2017
When Pompeo was first nominated, he sat down with Brennan for about an hour and a half to discuss the new opportunity. On an episode of ...
The Alcalde
September 25, 2017
In the nearly four decades since he left the Forty Acres, John Brennan, MA '80, has been a clandestine intelligence analyst, architect of U.S. ...
Markets Insider
September 25, 2017
Brennan was the director of the CIA until early 2017, but he says keeping those secrets was hardly the most important part of his job. Brennan ...
Markets Insider
September 21, 2017
Brennan was the director of the CIA until January 2017; he worked with Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.
The Intercept
September 20, 2017
At Fordham, a Former CIA Torture Proponent Kept His. ... On September 4, former CIA Director John Brennan began a two-year stint as a ...
Patch.com
September 19, 2017
AUSTIN, TX – Former Central Intelligence Director John O. Brennan has ... "As CIA Director, he served the nation with distinction at the very ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
CIA Director Mike Pompeo found out last week when a “secret” message he sent to a top Iranian general was publicized by the Tehran regime. ... President Barack Obama did use CIA Director John Brennan to send a stiff warning to his Russian counterpart about interference in the 2016 presidentialÃÂ ...
The Emory Wheel
December 31, 1999
Former CIA Director John Brennan discussed the role of ethics in the CIA and criticized President Donald J. Trump's administration for its ...
MSNBC
August 25, 2017
About a year ago, as U.S. intelligence officials recognized the scope of the Russian attack on the American election, then-CIA Director JohnÃÂ ...
Boing Boing
August 24, 2017
Former CIA Director John Brennan sent an internal memo to CIA employees last December in which he said some of the members of CongressÃÂ ...
CNN
August 24, 2017
Washington (CNN) Then-CIA Director John Brennan wrote to employees that he believed not all members of Congress understood theÃÂ ...
Business Insider
August 23, 2017
In an op-ed published by Politico Monday, Brennan Gilmore described how in the wake of the video's release, a number of elaborate andÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
August 21, 2017
“They are suggesting that you arranged the attack, Brennan,” she said. ... They wrote that I was a CIA operative, funded by (choose your ownÃÂ ...
WENY-TV
August 18, 2017
File- CIA Director John Brennan, speaking at a Center for Strategic and ... claimed they were brutally tortured while held in CIA prisons and theÃÂ ...
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