Time for CIA's Brennan to Go

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Time-for-CIA-s-Brennan-to-by-Melvin-Goodman-CIA-Crimes_Intelligence_John-Brennan_Obama-140314-718.html



Time for CIA's Brennan to Go
By Melvin Goodman
OpEdNews Op Eds 3/14/2014 at 12:36:48

CIA Director John Brennan has become an embarrassment to President Barack Obama and should resign immediately. Brennan has clearly worn out his welcome with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and recent history tells us that when a CIA director is found in the crosshairs of the committee it is time to go.

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Brennan's resignation would allow the Obama administration to release a sanitized version of the SSCI's report on CIA detention and rendition policy and thus avoid a prolonged battle with the Congress over this issue. The fact that Brennan has crossed swords with the chairman of the committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, who was an advocate for Brennan and the CIA at his confirmation hearing last year is more than enough reason for Brennan to go.

Feinstein has been an advocate for the intelligence community during her stewardship, defending the massive surveillance of the National Security Agency, the use of the drone and targeted assassinations by the Central Intelligence Agency, and the implementation of the Patriot Act by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There has never been a chairman of the SSCI more supportive of the intelligence community than Feinstein -- until now.

Brennan never should have been appointed CIA director in the first place. During the presidential campaign in 2007-2008, Barack Obama spoke out against the militarization and politicization of the intelligence community, and indicated that an Obama administration would demand more transparency in the community and an end to intelligence abuses.

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1. Long past time. nt