Meet John Brennan, Obama’s Assassination Czar
A relatively unnoticed article by Associated Press reporter Kimberly Dozier two weeks ago outlined new Obama administration policy changes which consolidated power for authorizing drone attacks and assassinations under political appointees within the White House.
The article identifies White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan as the official assuming the role of Obama’s de facto assassination czar, raising concerns even within the Obama administration that the White House is increasingly turning into “a pseudo-military headquarters” under the direction of just a few senior Obama administration officials.
Adding to these concerns are serious questions about Brennan’s qualifications for this role.
Even before the 2008 election, eyebrows were raised over Brennan’s role in the Obama campaign. An employee of The Analysis Corporation, of which Brennan was CEO, had improperly accessed passport information for Hillary Clinton, Obama’s Democratic primary challenger at the time, and GOP nominee John McCain. At the time, Brennan was a top adviser to the Obama campaign, and Brennan’s employee was not fired. (One of the key witnesses in the case was found murdered in his car outside his church while the investigation was still ongoing.)
Brennan was involved in administration intrigue related to the release of convicted Libyan Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi from a Scottish jail in August 2009. At the time of Megrahi’s release — when he returned to Libya to a national hero’s welcome — Brennan described the release as “unfortunate, inappropriate, and wrong” and called for his reimprisonment. However, Obama administration documents obtained by The Sunday Times revealed that the White House had secretly informed Scottish authorities that they found compassionate release more palatable than the reimprisonment of Megrahi in Libya.
Brennan also came under fire after would-be underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab nearly brought down a U.S.-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day 2009. British intelligence authorities had notified their U.S. counterparts of an “Umar Farouk” meeting with al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, and Abdulmutallab’s father had warned of his son’s increasing extremism to CIA officials at the U.S. embassy in Nigeria. However, Abdulmutallab was never added to the U.S. no-fly list, nor was his U.S. visa revoked.
Following this stunning and nearly fatal intelligence failure which prompted members of both the House and Senate Intelligence oversight committees to call for his resignation, Brennan lashed out at the Obama administration’s critics in a USA Today editorial. He claimed that the “politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.”
Brennan also defended treating Abdulmutallab as a criminal by having his rights read to him upon arrest and trying him in civilian court, rather than transferring the would-be bomber to military custody as an enemy combatant.
Just days later, Brennan gave a speech to Islamic law students at New York University, where he was introduced by Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America. Mattson, who had been involved with the Obama inaugural prayer service, had come under fire then for her organization’s longstanding terrorist support.
During his NYU speech, Brennan defended the administration’s highly unpopular move to try al-Qaeda operations chief Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court (which the administration eventually backed away from). He claimed that terrorists are the real victims of “political, economic and social forces,” said that Islamic terrorists were not jihadists, referenced “Al-Quds” instead of Jerusalem, and described the 20 percent of former Guantanamo detainees returning to terrorist activities as “not that bad” when compared to ordinary criminal recidivism.
During a talk at the Nixon Center in May 2010, Brennan said that the administration was looking for ways to build up “moderate elements” of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah.
Two weeks later, at a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Brennan defended the Islamic doctrines of jihad as “a holy struggle” and “a legitimate tenet of Islam.”
These missteps and misstatements by Brennan prompted the Washington Times to editorialize in June 2010 that “President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser knows very little about terrorism, and that’s scary for America,” and to warn that “Mr. Brennan’s curious views may be part of a larger move by the O Force to redefine terrorism”.





You forgot Brennan’s “Calling Jerusalem Al Quds” speech.
In Arabic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmGe_lVYxDw
Thank you for posting that, aquaviva. I came to this article to specifically look to see if that absolutely insane “Al Quds” description of Brennan’s was mentioned. This was something so outside of the American experience and Americanism that it still boggles my mind that Brennan hasn’t been kept in front of Congress testifying until he is finally tossed by this insanely anti-American, anti-Western administration. Heck, even the Euros don’t use that term.
Correctomundo.
Brennan is the single most dangerous and sinister male “adviser” in the White House. And that’s really saying something — he manages to be even worse than that oily creep who looks like a cross between Francois Mitterand, Enoch Powell and Monty Python’s famous “Mister Hilter”, David Axelrod.
(Of course, as a baleful influence, he’s given a run for his money by the female coven of Lady Underbite, Valerie Jarett and Samantha Power.)
Holy cow, what a crew.
Enoch Powell? Either your tongue slipped, or you must be out of your mind. Unless it was vice versa.
The continuing dhimmitude of America under Obambi.
Brennan also made a very bigoted joke about a Jew cheating an Arab, at a televized event, regarding selling ties to Arabs ddying of thirst. It was horrific yet telling very early on.
The al-qaeda assassinations will likely have no impact on American security, but they are likely to be welcomed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Until we combat the root of terrorism, Islam, we are not fighting terrorism.
Here’s the essence:
….”Until we combat the root of terrorism, Islam, we are not fighting terrorism.”
It’s impossible to justify our official “public” media-advocated position of blinkered “political correctness” in this “administration’s” tip toeing amongst the tulips of Islam’s lethal politics. We’re in peril until we pull our heads out of this darkness and have this “administration” admit that we Americans have been repeatedly attacked by Islam before that September morning of 2001. Islam’s very own Koran justifies and authorizes the slitting of all of our throats….literally because we don’t “believe” as Islamists do.
All of these Saudi financed ecumenical [!] “committees” at Georgetown U., and the Saudi financed madrassas in Northern Virginia-istan associated with mosques assiduously cultivating the impressionable minds of muslim male adolescents must be considered sleeper Fifth Columns.
I suspect that the genuine professionals we have in our Intelligence establishment know this but are blindsided by the asininities of Obama’s White House politically appointed staffers.
Elsewhere I’ve read the term “Amateur Hour” applied to this “administration”. That’s very apt.
Why don’t we view 11 September, 2001 the same way as 07 December, 1941?
The stark contrast in the two Democrat Presidents is absolutely tragic. We voters simply must not permit this chameleon Obama to remain in our Oval Office. He’s an elected poseur/arriviste trespasser….there’s no other way to put it.
Wake up, folks.
Crazy people are in charge – people with radical or radical-appeasing ideologies and extremely difficult personalities to boot.
They are not crazy.
They are evil.
Re: “An employee of The Analysis Corporation, of which Brennan was CEO, had improperly accessed passport information for Hillary Clinton, Obama’s Democratic primary challenger at the time, and GOP nominee John McCain.”
Whoaaa, Nelly!
AND BARACK OBAMA and STANLEY ANN DUNHAM!
This Administration has too many employies that don’t have America’s best interest at heart. The only reason Brennan has his job is because he is just one more cog in the firewall that is ment to protect Obama. Jerret,Holder,Brennen etc have more allegience to Obama then they do to America.
While any assassination of Islamic terrorists is a good thing, the fact of the matter is that these high profile drone attacks are being abused for political chess to prop up Obama’s toughness on terror, as well as deflect from domestic woes. They are NOT calibrated to defeat Islamic jihadists. Not at all.
The fact that Brennan is less than six degrees separated from a dead witness is all we need to know about his ‘credentials’. Does anyone-in their right or left mind-believe that the witness was not dispatched by the same goon squads, albeit not with a drone?
Moreover, this is a regime which cannot utter the world Islamic with terror. Indeed.
Good points all Adina.
OMFG. This clown Brennan is every bit as arrogant, confused, and foolish as his master Obama, who has come up with a unique strategy for remaining “the smartest guy in the room,” e.g., fill the room with fools. And he now has the power of extralegal assassination?! Granting the possibility (which at this point looks more and more remote) that Andrew Breitbart died of entirely natural causes, the next “troublemaker” like him almost certainly will not. Who’s to say that a strategy of “protecting the public from enemy propagandists” will stop at the border – or even still does?
PJ Media, watch your backs. You make far easier targets than anyone east of Suez…
Brennan is a flyweight bureaucrat and certainly does not deserve the power or the position he now has. I also have no problems going out and killing al Qaeda terrorists.
Having said that, I’m getting a little uncomfortable with the fact that the president can just order the assasination of anybody he pleases, including American citizens. This just doesn’t sound right. What harm would there be in making a brief case before members of Congress stating who the president is about to kill? Perhaps the House and Senate Intelligence Committees? The president doesn’t have to even tell them about it before the fact, if he’s worried about security and information leaking out. But he should at least inform them right after the fact, so that Congress is at least kept in the loop of the decision making.
I don’t think the Founding Fathers wanted us to run our own version of Murder, Inc. They probably would have thought that this was the same type of power a king had and would have opposed it. I do to. There needs to be more control over this, either with Congress or with other Federal agencies (like the CIA or the FBI). The last person I want with absolute powers over life and death is a guy like Obama.
This is so wrong on so many levels I don’t know where to begin. Remember, back in 2004-2009, when Cheney was “Darth Vader”? Hell, he never even came close to the stuff Brennan has done. Where does cupidity and complicity stop and treason begin? Oh, yeah, right, 0 needs a firewall so he can say, “What, me worry? I’m not responsible – that’s just my staff.”
Islam has been at war with Western Civilization since 632AD. The U.S. first “warred” on Islam in Tripoli in 1803. The war will not be over unless and until either: 1) Islam is eradicated from every square foot of planet Earth; or, 2) slightly more likely, but not much, there is a major internally generated reformation of Islam from an all encompassing social/political/economic construct to being a “mere” religion.
I’d say the treason began quite a few decades ago.
Brennan is one creepy guy. Speaks Arabic fluently, was once the CIA Station Chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, rose to become head of the CIA’s National Counter Terroism Center. Despite all this he still goes around sucking up to Islamic audiences and preaches the jihad is a “spiritual struggle” hokum.
My guess is that with all his Arabic studies and experience living in the Middle East he has developed a certain fondness for that culture, a trait clearly at odds with the mission of his office. On the other hand, his boss seems to share that same fondness, maybe that’s why he picked Brennan in the first place.
More than a “fondness for the culture” I would think – more likely, he is paid big bucks by the Saudis.
Brennan has his current position of trust in the White House thug squad for one reason, and one reason only. Prior to the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Brennan was the one tasked with the responsibility of seeking out–and destroying–all of barry’s records and history: his transcripts, birth certificate, writings, passports, selective service info and multiple social security cards. Wh better to be his “killer for hire”?
A conveniently dead witness? How Clintonesque. Someone should look into mysterious deaths related to this administration and compare it to Slick Willy. As I recall, there were quite a few under Clinton.
He will be packing up his things in a few more months. President Romney will be kicking out all the illegal Czars.
I guess it was the sycophantic & suffocating “al quds” speech & reference that originally put Brennan on my idiot list.
Brennan and Obama and a kill list?
Is military input as negligible as congressional input as decisions of all types come from a small, arrogant Obama coterie ?
Great posts on Brennan, I would like to remind every one here that Mr Brennan was also instrumental in the Clinton adm,s failure to accept delivery of Osama binLadin and his onteroge, when Sudan offered them to US when they were detained at the airport in Kartoum. Also remember Richard Clark and his ,”I failed America apology speech” When again under Clinton, they tipped off the UAE. Government to a pending attack on OBL,s hunting camp, Because of the presence of some of their princelings, being present, in the camp. and the operation was compromised. My point being that having Democrats in power,seems to lead to attacks like 9 11 and Fort Hood ect. They are not only corrupt ,but incompentent , remember Clinton saying ” We were offered BinLadin but we just couldn’t,t hold him, because we and no legal grounds to hold him” Discounting the fact that he ,Osama had declared war on the United States.
They are not incompetent. They are very capably advancing their agenda.
Underestimating your enemy is a serous mistake.
With Brennan’s background laid out before me like this, I can’t help but ask: Do we know 100% for sure, via impartial third party sources, that the people alleged to have been killed by American drones are actually dead?
Seriously, given this guy’s background and publicly stated views, it seems far more likely that he is a MEMBER of Al Qaeda than their enemy. Someone this supportive of Islam seems more likely to HELP Al Qaeda, Hizbollah, etc. than to kill them.
Is there ANY chance that the people supposedly killed by drones have not just been spirited out of harm’s way just prior to the drone strike and then been reported dead by Brennan and his minions to delude America into a false sense of security? Perhaps they are really being allowed to operate from some secret base somewhere.
Just what are the sources for the news reports that these terrorists were actually killed? Is Brennan’s own organization the one reporting the deaths? Do we have independent corroboration from reliable third parties?
I should stress that I’m NOT a conspiracy theorist but the disconnect between Brennan’s views and his job are so striking that I can’t help but ask.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with targeted killings of the enemy in war–we targeted Yamamoto and blew him out of the skies. Think of it as a high tech sniping. In fact, we targeted entire cities. But, you make your point about our situational anti-war President: if the President is going to play the due process game–civilian trials in New York of POWs and no more “torture” interrogations of defendants doing acts of war– to make political points with his anti-war base, he shouldn’t be surprised when the base gets upset over his pretrial executions by drones.
I notice that there is never any reference to collateral damage done by these drone attacks by our macho boy President. Are we to believe that all the number 2s that have been killed were sitting alone in the middle of some field when they were hit. Now I have absolutely nothing against the killing of these vermin. I am pointing out the hypocrisy of the man who ties our military’s hands with absurd rule of engagement receiving a pass for actions which would land far better men in Leavenworth.
It may seem minor, but I remember right after OBL was killed, it was Brennan getting in front of the cameras and saying how OBL lived in a “mansion” and was in the lap of luxury. Very quickly the world saw that this was not quite the case. I thought it disturbing that a senior person like this would lie to the public so blatantly when it was going to quickly be verifiable that it was not true.
Occupied,
For the Pakis that was the lap of luxury.
If Brennan is forced from the administration then the chances of a President Romney increases significantly
Because of the public exposure of the corruption of the Administration? There is no time for a Congressional inquiry between now and November, and the Congress would avoid it, I think – precisely because of Brennan’s various apparent roles.
Hmmmm. Seems like that old “Arkansas fever” may be back in town. I’ve been wondering how long it would take.
(One of the key witnesses in the case was found murdered in his car outside his church while the investigation was still ongoing.)
Interesting when veiwed such: Obama becoming the “Drone Warrior” and then passing the trigger off to his “Made Man” just in time for the drones to start patrolling over the U.S.
Another reason why the Obama administration must be investigated thoroughly and indictments handed down after these Leftists are ousted from power.
More on John Brennan here, I just have the feeling he is a stealth muslim.
http://juniperinthedesert.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/john-o-brennan-another-american-traitor.html
When naming ex-CIA ‘Cleaner’ (John Brennan) as Obama’s ‘Assassination CZAR’, apparently the writer FAILS to realize the LITERAL REALITY of the FACT that John Brennan could EASILY be named by ‘OBJECTIVE’ Police Officials as RESPONSIBLE for the ‘Double-Tap’ (Professional Assassin’s ‘trademark’ method of placing two shots behind the ear of his victim – as a WARNING to others!) ASSASSINATIONS of Obama’s Gay Lovers, Ronald Young & Nate Spencer in Nov. & Dec. of 2007 – prior to the 2008 New Hampshire Presidential Primary – BOTH Gay Choir members @ the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Obama was reported to be on the ‘Down-Low’ with these Gay Choir members, according to reports from Church Members & Larry Sinclair, who held numerous Press Conferences on these murders, as he claimed to also be one of Obama’s Gay Lovers & ‘Came Out’ as he says to prevent from being murdered by Obama’s ‘Assassins’ (whom John Brennan is suspected to have directed).
Also DIRECTLY CONNECTED to John Brennan, is the April 2008 MURDER of Lieutenant Quarels Harris Jr. in Washington D.C., after Harris disclosed that he was investigating the claims of a U.S. State Department employee who knew that John Brennan’s Analysis Inc.(collection of Ex-CIA ‘Spooks’, like Brennan) ‘Contract Employee’ @ the U.S. State Department who admitted ‘Improperly Accessing’ (and ‘Scrubbing’ Obama’s Passport Files of TRIPS to the Soviet Union, and later Russia, as well as Obama’s trips to Africa & Pakistan in 1981) the Passport files of Obama, Hillary Clinton & John McCain, and who stood possible MURDER CHARGES if any ‘OBJECTIVE’ investigation was ever done into WHY anyone would ‘Double-Tap’ MURDER Quarels Harris Jr. !
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/22/passport.files/index.html#cnnSTCText
Yeah, I mentioned it in the fourth paragraph and even linked to the same CNN piece.
Right on.
IF THE MEDIA AND THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OF THIS COUNTRY EVER DARED TO DO THEIR JOBS, THEY WOULD HAVE DUMPED OBAMA IN 2008 IN THE PRIMARIES, RIGHT AFTER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE PRE-2008 RECORDS OF OBAMA WERE REPORTED AS HAVING GONE MISSING, AND WERE CLEARLY & SUSPICIOUSLY AT LEAST THE VERY APPEARANCE OF A QUID PRO QUO LINKED TO WHITE HOUSE CHIEF COUNTER-TERRORISM LIAISON, JOHN BRENNAN…SO WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT ANYTHING LESS OF JOHN BRENNAN THAN WHAT HE REALLY IS?
We know the factual data that pro-Obama private contractors breached State Department security on January 9, February 21 and March 14 of 2008, before a final theft of all Obama’s documents (including his foreign passports) was “alleged” to have happened on a date of either March 21, or March 26, 2008.
The CEO of Analysis Corp., the primary Passport breaching firm was John Brennan…who just “happened” to become the Deputy of Counter-Terrorism (emphasize Terrorism). But does the Media vet Obama or Brennan? Does the Media even dare follow Constitutional Literalism? Or are they mostly opportunists like Brennan, who look on the US Constitution with such indifference to consequences, that they feel it their duty to only utilize such for the sake of manipulation into wealth or power and the sakes of their own convenience, as if the blind living in a world with coke bottle thick glasses?
Geez… this is extremely creepy/scary. Make sure y’alls insurance is paid up.
For a group of people who hate the military it seems they’re doing a bang up job learning all the infamous ways and parts. The difference of course is honor, integrity and intent. Military folks promise to defend the country against all enemies foreign and domestic. Obamas minions wouldn’t know honor if it bit them on the nose, wouldn’t know integrity if it introduced itself on the street and their intent is to remake Amerika into fascist Italy during WWII or Japan before we dropped the bomb or China at it redist.
Only one real difference. Once collateral damage starts Americans will take action and our military will join the people not the government.
In a Christmas article on of all places CNN “all most half a million checks were done in just the last six days before Christmas.’ But never fear the Anti-Gunfolks have a lazer like beam on the issue.
“The research we’ve seen indicates fewer and fewer people are owning more and more guns,” said Caroline Brewer of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “All the trends indicate the number of Americans who own guns has declined.”
Well I know quite a few both new and repeat gun buyers and they don’t intend to stop anytime soon. Government intrusion and unlawful arrests, swating and harassing bloggers, pundits and othesr on line, people acting like Zombies. Sounds like a really good idea to have something better than a torch and pitchfork.
How long before there is a drone attack on a “terrorist” on American soil?
IPv6, New Internet Protocol, Launches with Privacy Questions
http://www.worldipv6launch.org/
I have decided that America is no longer America, given those in charge and the damage done to this once great country. There are still many greats among the citizens, but those in charge are serving evil. If someone asks where you come from, just say UnAmerica.”I live in UnAmerica.” I think they will understand. Unless of course they misconstrue the meaning as being an America serving the UN, which is also plausible. The phrase “unAmerican” no longer applies-the whole administration running the country is unAmerican in every way, no, its citizens live in unAmerica.
I’ve decided that America is no more. From now on its citizens when asked where they reside should reply, “UnAmerica.” I think people will agree. The leaders of this once great country have almost destroyed it, there are many great citizens however. There is the possibility though, that folk may think you are referring to an America that serves the UN, and is its right arm, which is a reasonable deduction.
The phrase, “UnAmerican,” has lost its meaning-everything that comes out of its administration is unAmerican-its citizens live in unAmerica.
Apologies for saying the same thing twice. Real computer probs here-unbelievably slow broadband. I have to wait up to 8 mins before anything is printed. I will wait in future. Still, saying it twice may emphasise the situation. I think we should just accept that there is nothing good ever going to come from the O administration, that way we may be pleasantly surprised if they “slip up” and do something good for the country.
Apologies for saying the same thing twice. Real computer problems here-unbelievably slow broadband. I have to wait up to 8 mins before anything is printed. I will wait in future. Still, saying it twice may emphasise the situation. I think we should just accept that there is nothing good ever going to come from the O administration, that way we may be pleasantly surprised if they “slip up” and do something good for the country.
well, Bin Laden is dead, along with many top alqaeda leaders, and we haven’t been attacked like so many republicans and fox noise said we would be if Obama was elected. I say keep up the good work fellas. Call it assassination if you want, but this is war dude. Obama is a steely eyed missile man, we don’t have time for games.
Jawohl! Pothead for president, from here to eternity. Stimmt, mein Junge!
WHY, WHY has no one noticed that Brennan works for Barack Hussein Obama (Jr.)? He was recruited and appointed by the Obama Administration and, although BHO is frequently out of town making speeches and collecting campaign money, he can read the news and hear the gossip about what his appointees, official and “Czars,” are doing. BHO is responsible for his underlings’ actions and should be overseeing those people even though he is not very often on duty in the Oval Office. Brennan works FOR Obama and would not be there if he wasn’t on board with BHO’s policies and plans. (Same for Holder, but that’s another story, for another time……..)
Lots of words about the “assassination czar” and no mention of the three U.S. citizens — including a 16-year-old boy — assassinated by the Obama Administration without due process in violation of the 5th Amendment.