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By Barry Secrest

The plot continually thickens regarding former Obama top operatives and their ongoing conspiracy to undermine (if not completely remove) President Trump from his administration and halt his policy initiatives.

In that vein comes the latest bit of skullduggery news that Ex-CIA Moscow Station Chief Daniel Hoffman is incensed over an alleged plot [in alignment with Russia] by former CIA Intel chief John Brennan who is allegedly seeking to actively undermine US National Security, in his frequent MSNBC interviews.

Brennan has never denied the frequently recounted charges, making the news rounds, that he was targeted and secretly co-opted into converting to Islam while working on behalf of the US in Saudi Arabia; most likely making Brennan a member of the Sunni sect of Islam, if the representation holds as accurate.

The issue at hand involves Brennan, who, in a March 2018  MSNBC interview, speculated that “The Russians may have something on [Mr. Trump] personally, that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult,” Mr. Brennan said. “That [Mr. Trump] has had this fawning attitude toward Mr. Putin…say[s] to me that he does have something to fear and something very serious to fear.”

According to Former CIA- spymaster Hoffman, Brennan, in that bit of wild speculation, had compromised US national security while practically freezing US allies as to the overall implications, coming from a former US spy-agency head.

The main problem being that Brennan has long held an unhealthy relationship with both the truth and his overall sagacity as being a legitimate source of accurate Intel, while also possibly acting as an alleged operative for Islam.

To hear Obama's 8- year-long attacks on Christianity, while widely defending the faith of Islam, the stories concerning Brennan and Islam, tend to land more within the compelling realm rather than merely being wild rumors.

It was FBI expert, JohnGuandolo, in 2013, who initially posited the intel that Brennan may have been compromised by his Islamic conversion.

From Discover the Networks comes the following outtake:

"In February 2013, John Guandolo, a former Marine who subsequently worked eight years in the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division as a “subject matter expert” regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and the global spread of Islam, stated that Brennan had converted to Islam years earlier in Saudi Arabia. Said Guandolo:

“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. 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 is 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 be the director of Central Intelligence....

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."

Guandolo's claim about Brennan's conversion has never been corroborated by an independent source.

Brennan has publicly praised "the goodness and beauty of Islam," which he characterizes as "a faith of peace and tolerance." "The tremendous warmth of Islamic cultures and societies," he said in 2010, typically makes visitors from non-Muslim lands feel very "welcomed."

On March 7, 2013, the Senate (by a margin of 63-34) confirmed Brennan for the position of CIA director. When he was sworn into office, he placed his left hand not on a bible, but on an original draft of the U.S. Constitution dating from 1787 – before it included the Bill of Rights. Most, but not all, previous CIA directors had been sworn in using a bible."

Now, from the Washington Times comes the rest of the story:

"A behind-the-scenes U.S. intelligence community fight over the merits of publicly scorning President Trump has burst into the open recently, with the CIA’s former Moscow station chief accusing Obama-era spymaster John O. Brennan of crossing a red line through incessant Twitter and cable news excoriations of the current commander in chief.

In addition to claiming that Mr. Brennan is aiding a Kremlin plot to deepen America’s partisan divide, former CIA Clandestine Service Officer Daniel Hoffman says the former CIA director has actually jeopardized national security by publicly insinuating that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be blackmailing Mr. Trump.

Mr. Brennan made the insinuation in late-March when he asserted during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Mr. Trump is “afraid of the president of Russia” and that “one can speculate as to why.” 

“The Russians may have something on [Mr. Trump] personally, that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult,” Mr. Brennan said. “That [Mr. Trump] has had this fawning attitude toward Mr. Putin…say[s] to me that he does have something to fear and something very serious to fear.”

The comments quickly became fodder for headlines in other news outlets. But they also had something of an explosive impact inside the intelligence community, where many recoiled at the notion that the former CIA chief had made a public declaration on a matter U.S. spy agencies have never weighed in on conclusively.

Apparently aware of this, Mr. Brennan wasted little time trying to rectify the situation by reiterating that he was only speculating. Within just a few hours of the MSNBC interview, he told The New York Times that, “I do not know if the Russians have something on Donald Trump that they could use as blackmail.”

But for Mr. Hoffman, the damage was done.

“What I found cringe-worthy,” he says, “is that Brennan was insinuating that Vladimir Putin could control President Trump and that Brennan’s choice of the word ‘speculate’ would be lost on the audience because of his previous position as director of the CIA".....

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