The Senate has confirmed John Brennan to head the CIA, and that was a mistake. Brennan spent most of his career at the CIA. He worked for the Bush administration, reporting for Bush’s daily briefing, and he was the main guy behind the drone targeting for the Obama administration.
He said he was not involved the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, and that he had privately told people he opposed the torture. If you oppose a policy like that, you resign from government. You go public. You call the Washington Post. You contact CNN.
Obama should not have appointed him; the Senate should not have confirmed him. Now he heads the very agency that committed waterboarding and sent prisoners abroad to be tortured at so-called “black sites.”
A 6000-page Senate Report on the activities at Guantanamo has been compiled, but it’s classified. I’d like to see it, and the American people deserve to see it. I’d like names named, and people punished. I wonder if Brennan is mentioned in that report. Of course, if he is and the report is released, his name will be “redacted.” That’s the way we do things now.
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