Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:10 pm
Donald Trump claimed that intelligence briefers disapproved of President Obama’s foreign policy and that he knew this because “I’m pretty good with body language,” and “I could tell they were not happy.”
Besides the complete impropriety of revealing anything about an intelligence briefing, Trump has now received push-back from no less a person than CIA Director John Brennan. Appearing on CBS’ Face the Nation, Brennan said,
“I know the briefers that have been briefing the candidates. They are the quintessential professional intelligence officers. They do their work very well.
“We don’t comment on policy. We don’t give policy recommendations, so I am fully confident that they comported themselves with the utmost professionalism and demonstrated their real breadth and depth of intelligence capabilities.”
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Obviously, Brennan did not comment on body language other than to refer to the professionalism of the intelligence officers giving the briefing, but it is clear that Trump is either lying or simply saw what he wished to see.
If you’re wondering whom to believe, remember, Donald Trump is also the only one who saw Muslims cheering on 9/11 during the attack on the Twin Towers.
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
