he is said to dwell in the castle of Kronborg, his beard grown down to the floor, and to sleep there until some date when Denmark is in mortal danger, at which time he will rise up and deliver the nation
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "cloak and dagger" as "dealing in or suggestive of melodramatic intrigue and action usually involving secret agents and espionage." Nothing says "cloak and dagger" more than the CIA and nothing says ‘cloaks and Keffiyehs' more than John Brennan.
The son of Irish immigrants from Roscommon, Ireland, Brennan grew up in North Bergen, New Jersey. He graduated from Saint Joseph of the Palisades High School in West New York, New Jersey.
While attending Fordham University, he saw an ad that the CIA was recruiting and his career began. He holds a B.A. in political science from Fordham and studied abroad learning Arabic and taking Middle Eastern studies courses at the American University in Cairo. He also has a Master of Arts in government with a concentration in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Texas at Austin and speaks Arabic fluently.
During his time with the CIA he has been an analyst, a spy, and even the daily intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton. In 1996 he was the CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has been the chief of staff to former Director of the CIA George Tenet. In March 2001 Brennan became deputy executive director of the CIA. He was named director of the newly created Terrorist Threat Integration Center from 2003 to 2004 for President Bush. His last position in the Intelligence Community was as director of the National Counterterrorism Center 2004-2005.
In 2008 Obama appointed him to be his chief counterterrorism advisor, a position that did not require Senate confirmation. Officially his title is Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President. I raised the alarm about John Brennan during Obama's first term back in 2010.
Almost three years ago, I wrote about Brennan in my article "If Our National Security Operation Doesn't Shock Us Awake, Will Anything?", it was rather humorous that Brennan had the title "Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism", because according to his speech at the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), he stated that "our enemy is not terrorism" and, therefore, there could be no Counterterrorism;
"The President's strategy is absolutely clear about the threat we face. Our enemy is not ‘terrorism' because terrorism is but a tactic. Our enemy is not ‘terror' because terror is a state of mind and as Americans we refuse to live in fear. Nor do we describe our enemy as ‘jihadists' or ‘Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenant of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children."
In February 2010 during a speech at New York University, he stated,
"...And as part of that experience, to learn about the goodness and beauty of Islam....I came to see Islam not as it is often misrepresented, but for what it is... a faith of peace and tolerance and great diversity...."
Two minutes later in the same speech he referred to Jerusalem, Israel's capital, by its Arabic name,
"And in all my travels, the city I have come to love most is Al Quds..."
Over the past three years I have referred to Brennan as a "closet Muslim" both in my articles and on my radio show, but I never went so far as to say he was a Muslim because I had no proof and as my readers know, unlike many so-called writers today, I only report facts and I back them up.
Well now someone has come out and said just that.
Tom Trento of the United West interviewed former FBI Counter-Terrorism expert John Guandolo on his radio show last week and Guandolo stated that Brennan converted to Islam while he was the CIA station Chief in Saudi Arabia.
"Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on the behalf of the United States in Saudi Arabia. That fact alone is not what is most disturbing," Guandolo continued. "His conversion to Islam was the culmination of a counterintelligence operation against him to recruit him. The fact that foreign intelligence service operatives recruited Mr. Brennan when he was in a very sensitive and senior U.S. government position in a foreign country means that he either a traitor ... [or] he has the inability to discern and understand how to walk in those kinds of environments, which makes him completely unfit to the be the director of Central Intelligence."
Tom Trento himself seemed shocked by the statement,
"Are you kidding me? The head of the CIA is a Muslim? For real? ... Are you sure?"
Guandolo is sure and backed it up as well,
"Yes I am, the facts of the matter are confirmed by U.S. government officials who were also in Saudi Arabia at the time that John Brennan was serving there and have direct knowledge. These are men who work in very trusted positions, they were direct witnesses to his growing relationship with the individuals who worked for the Saudi government and others and they witnessed his conversion to Islam."
"My contention is that [Brennan] is wholly unfit for government service in any national security capacity, and that would specifically make him unfit to be the director of Central Intelligence," Guandolo told Trento.
Guandolo pointed out that it isn't just his conversion but rather three different points that make Brennan unfit for the position.
"The first is he has interwoven his life professionally and personally with individuals that we know are terrorists, he has overseen and approved and encouraged others to bring known leaders of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood into the government in positions to advise the U.S. government on counterterrorism strategy as well as the overall ‘war on terror.'"
"Second, Brennan has proven through his own comments publicly that he is clueless and grossly ignorant of Al-Qaida's strategy."
"Third and finally, which some would say is most disturbing, is Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam, I think the [larger] news is that that conversion is the culmination of the work of people in Saudi Arabia who worked for the Saudi Government - and that makes John Brennan just naïve, foolish, dangerously ignorant and totally unfit for this position.
"That in and of itself, again, shouldn't be shocking to people, Mr. Brennan, they have the clip where he specifically says during a public address ... he said during that speech that he has learned and gets his understanding and his ‘worldview' in large part from Islam. It shouldn't be a large leap to imagine he's converted to Islam."
Guandolo wouldn't name his sources, but given that they are still "U.S. government officials who work in very trusted positions" it is more than understandable that they remain anonymous.
Given Brennan's past statements and his association with known terrorists that I myself have been screaming about for years I don't find Guandolo's claim farfetched at all.
One thing is certain, given John Guandolo's history this claim should not be swept under the proverbial prayer rug.
Guandolo is a US Naval Academy Graduate and former US Marine combat Infantry Platoon Commander during both Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield, he is a former FBI Agent in the Washington Field Office and a Swat Team Leader. He was also one of the Bureau's Advanced Capability Medics. While working in the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, John became an expert on the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Law (a.k.a. Shari'ah) and teaching, and the Global Islamic Movement (GIM). The knowledge he accumulated on these related topics earned the FBI's "Subject Matter Expert (SME)" designation, a role that gave him the opportunity to design and implement the FBI's first counter-terrorism training course.
During a briefing to the Vice President's National Security Staff in 2007, Executive Assistant Director of the FBI hailed John's course as "groundbreaking" and that same year, US Senators John Kyl and Joseph Lieberman presented John with the DC-based Center for Security Policy's "Defender of the Homeland" award in appreciation of his innovative work. Mr. Guandolo continues to advise federal, state and local government and law enforcement on the Global Islamic Movement threat to national security.
When it comes to the top position of ‘cloak and daggers' I'd hate to think that the person heading it up is really wearing a "cloak and Keffiyeh."
Leave it to Barack Hussein Obama to pick the most controversial possible candidates for offices of Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense but when you pick an Islamist-loving piece of shit to head up the nation's spy agency, is beyond the pale.
But hey, it's in your face, America. I'm going to be talking about this on Saturday night at The Awakening (my Blog Talk Radio show)...some things need to finally be addressed about this President.
BREAKING: Islam ‘Helped to Shape’ CIA Nominee John Brennan’s World View
As a college student in the 1970s, John Brennan, President Obama's nominee for CIA director, traveled in Indonesia where - he recalled in a speech in New York in 2010 - "despite my long hair, my earring and my obvious American appearance, I was welcomed throughout that country, in a way that is a reflection of the tremendous warmth of Islamic cultures and societies."
Brennan's Feb. 13, 2010 address to a meeting at the Islamic Center at New York University, facilitated by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), provided an insight into his views on Islam, a faith which he said during the speech had "helped to shape my own world view."
Travels around the world over more than three decades had taught him about "the goodness and beauty of Islam," said Brennan, whose 25-year career at the CIA until 2005 included a stint as station chief in Riyadh.
"Like the president during his childhood years in Jakarta, I came to see Islam not how it is often misrepresented, but for what it is - how it is practiced every day, by well over a billion Muslims worldwide, a faith of peace and tolerance and great diversity."
In the speech, during which he drew applause after speaking in Arabic for more than a minute, Brennan used terms evidently designed to appeal to his audience, such as "Al-Quds" for Jerusalem, "Palestine" and "as the Qur'an reveals" - in keeping with the Muslim belief that the Qur'an was "revealed" directly by Allah to Mohammed through the angel Jibril (Gabriel).
He condemned what he said were negative stereotypes in the U.S. about Muslims and hostility towards Islam, adding that government actions and policies had contributed to the problem but saying this would change under Obama.
“Ignorance is a threat to our national security, prejudice is a threat to our national security, discrimination is a threat to our national security. And those who purport to be religious are frequently the most egregious purveyors of ignorance, prejudice and discrimination – and it must stop,” he said.
“We must also acknowledge that over the years the actions of our own government have at times perpetuated those attitudes,” Brennan continued.
“Violations of the Patriot Act; surveillance that has been excessive; policies perceived as profiling; over-inclusive no-fly lists subjecting law-abiding individuals to unnecessary searches and inconvenience; creating an unhealthy atmosphere around many Muslim charities that made Muslims hesitant to fulfill their sacred obligation of zakat [an Islamic tithe or tax] – these are challenges we face, we face together as Americans, and President Obama and his administration are pursuing a comprehensive approach to address them,” he said.
As Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, Brennan – a Jesuit-educated Catholic – has played a prominent role in the administration’s outreach to Muslims, American Muslims especially. He has also been a leading proponent of the effort to stop using terms many Muslims find offensive, such as “jihadist” as a descriptor for terrorists acting in the name of Islam.
“They are not jihadists,” he told the NYU audience in 2010, “for jihad is a holy struggle, an effort to purify, for a legitimate purpose. And there is nothing, absolutely nothing holy or pure or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children.”
Brennan had made similar comments the previous August, telling a Center for Strategic and International Studies event that “describing terrorists in this way, using the legitimate term ‘jihad’ – which means to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal – risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve.”
The administration’s National Security Strategy, released three months after the NYU speech, repeatedly used variations of the phrase “al-Qaeda and its affiliates” in identifying the enemy. The term “jihadist” and did not appear in the 52-page document and the word “Islam” appeared twice – the U.S. was not fighting a war against Islam, it said, and “neither Islam nor any other religion condones the slaughter of innocents.”
(By contrast the Bush administration’s 2006 NSS stated that “the struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century,” although it also said that Islam “has been twisted and made to serve an evil end.”)
When he previewed the NSS document in a speech several days before the launch, Brennan said, “Our enemy is not terrorism because terrorism is but a tactic. Nor do we describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one’s community.”
Newspapers in the Islamic world routinely use the term “jihadist” (or, in South Asia, “jihadi”) in their news reporting on terrorist acts, without suggesting that the term has been misappropriated.
