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CIA's Brennan warns Trump, says he doesn't 'fully understand' Russia threat
Fox News.com ^ | January 15, 2017

Posted on 01/15/2017 12:41:41 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan had some sharp criticism and warnings Sunday for Donald Trump, saying the incoming president doesn’t have a “full understanding” of Russia’s power and threat to the world.

“I don’t think he has a full understanding of Russian capabilities and the actions they are taking on the world,” Brennan told “Fox News Sunday.”

He also suggested that Trump lacks “full appreciation” of Russia’s aggression or about why President Obama imposed sanctions on the Kremlin for meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

“Mr. Trump has to understand that absolving Russia is a road that he needs to be very, very careful about moving down,” Brennan said.

Brennan was appointed by President Obama in 2013 to run the country’s premier spy agency.

Trump has repeatedly suggested better U.S. ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And he has been particularly suspect of the entire U.S. intelligence community since it concluded Russia and Putin tried to influence the elections, in an apparent effort to help Trump defeat Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Brennan said Trump likening the U.S. intelligence community to Nazi German for presumably leaking the content of an opposition-research dossier on him is “outrageous.”

"There is no interest in undermining the president elect,” he said. “Our responsibility is to understand dangers on the world stage so (Trump and his Republican administration) have the intel we have so they can make best decision.”

However, he said Trump “needs to be disciplined” and that he’ll face numerous challenges” in his presidency that begins Friday -- with terrorism, cybersecurity, North Korea and Middle East instability among those at the top.

“So many issues on Day One,” Brennan said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brennan; cia; islam; jihadi; mole; muslim; putin; russia
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When is Brennan to be replaced.
1 posted on 01/15/2017 12:41:41 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

That is because there is no threat brennan only you and your sharia ilk.


2 posted on 01/15/2017 12:43:56 PM PST by ColdOne (( I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Trump should get a Russian Wolfhound for first pet in WH.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

This from a man who allowed an unsecured server to be used by the SOS


3 posted on 01/15/2017 12:44:51 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

And Brenan clearly doesn’t “fully understand” Trump.


4 posted on 01/15/2017 12:45:10 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

hopefully he’s on the “to do” list for day one


5 posted on 01/15/2017 12:45:43 PM PST by thinden
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Americans all know that the White Mosque and
Jihad Brennan set up President-Elect Trump
by PUBLISHING the fabricated yellow journalism,
created by Jeb Bush, pushed by McCain,
that the CIA KNEW was a lie and would weaken America.


6 posted on 01/15/2017 12:45:59 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Crypto-Muslim, Saudi-supporter, Obama inner-circle and leftist intelligence bureaucracy insider

Sorry Brennan, I fear you much more.


7 posted on 01/15/2017 12:46:01 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“— with terrorism, cybersecurity, North Korea and Middle East instability among those at the top.”

What exactly has Brennan done about any of these things? China hacked the Office of Personnel Management and got away with stealing 24 MILLION Social Security numbers and other info on past and present federal employees. North Korea has been hacking for years, and is developing a nuclear weapon, Russia has been hacking for years, and nothing has been done about it, and of course, there is the massive instability in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Egypt, all under 0bama and Brennan’s watch.


8 posted on 01/15/2017 12:46:05 PM PST by euram
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Has there been a more political CIA Director than Brennan?

What a political hack!


9 posted on 01/15/2017 12:46:45 PM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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CIA's Brennan warns Trump, says he doesn't 'fully understand' Russia threat

Hey, Brennan, tell us why you voted for Communist Gus Hall for President, you turncoat.

10 posted on 01/15/2017 12:46:48 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Sheikh Brennan is gone in 4 day 20 hours and 14 minutes.


11 posted on 01/15/2017 12:46:51 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Brennan can, and should, say everything he has to say during his exit interview.

12 posted on 01/15/2017 12:46:55 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

A threat to Saudi Arabia’s economy maybe. Of course, under Obama and Muslim sycophants like Brennan, the U.S. Government was simply an adjunct of Saudi-Islamic empire.


13 posted on 01/15/2017 12:47:27 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast ("Now it's up to the American people to deliver justice")
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I think Trump does understand that at 12:01 PM on Friday Brennan is gone.


14 posted on 01/15/2017 12:48:41 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
They always want to tell us what a threat Russia is to "the world" but they never want to explain exactly how Russia is a threat to the world. If Americans fully understood this threat, they would be sick to their stomachs.
15 posted on 01/15/2017 12:49:00 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Brennan is a muzzie he cant be trusted


16 posted on 01/15/2017 12:49:03 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The cold war is over. Just what is this threat by Russia? Are they going to invade us? Are they going to start some other major war? No, they cannot. They do not have the infrastructure, the wealth or the population to undertake such actions. Russia is not a threat to us, and we need to recognize it, and move to a better relationship.

Now China and the Middle East - those are potential threats and what we need to prepare for and be wary of.


17 posted on 01/15/2017 12:49:24 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Brennan! You are a certified DOPE! The CIA has suffered immeasurably under you watch and other Odumbo leadership! Trump will teach you, so try pay attention.


18 posted on 01/15/2017 12:49:49 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Get this incompetent goatherd wannabe the hell out of our government by no later than Jan 21st!


19 posted on 01/15/2017 12:50:02 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

No, that’s zip, zero, nada, Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch appointed officials to any of the gubmit agencies understands anything requiring a real university education.

Really.

Think about it. The Muslim only appoints those less intelligent than he, and one has to really reach to the left side of the Bell Curve to find individuals fitting that description.


20 posted on 01/15/2017 12:50:07 PM PST by Da Coyote
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