Former Obama spy chiefs upbraid Trump for his remarks about his intelligence agencies
Source: Washington Post
By Ellen Nakashima July 21 at 11:26 PM
ASPEN, Colo. — Two former senior Obama administration intelligence officials on Friday expressed anger at President Trump’s statements disparaging the intelligence community and disbelief at his embrace of Russia.
In remarkably strong terms and in their first extensive remarks on the topic since leaving office on Jan. 20, former CIA director John Brennan and former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. let loose on Trump, who before taking office had compared his intelligence community to Nazi Germany.
“That was a terrible, insulting affront” to the rank and file — “completely inappropriate, over-the-top,” Clapper said at the Aspen Security Forum. He said he could not let that pass and had called Trump to register his displeasure.
Brennan said “it’s interesting” that Trump will invoke U.S. intelligence when it suits his foreign policy aims in North Korea, Syria or Iran. “But when it’s inconsistent with . . . preconceived notions as well as maybe preferences to what the truth would be” and the analysts’ conclusions are disparaged, “that’s when Jim Clapper’s blood and my blood boils,” he said.
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Trump kisses Putin's ass. Even with his ASKING Putin if he had anything to do with it, and then ASKING the same question in a DIFFERENT way, he's never really ACCUSED Putin of subverting our Democracy. 
Brennan said he was dismayed by the “photo op” of Trump leaning over and telling Putin “it’s an honor to be with you.” That, he said, “was not the honorable thing to say.” The Russian leader “assaulted one of the foundational pillars of our democracy — our electoral system . . . invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea, has suppressed and repressed political opponents in Russia and has caused the death or killed many of them.”
Said Brennan: “For someone who knows the art of the deal, I thought it was a very, very bad negotiating tactic.” 
The truth of the matter is, Trump gave his buddy Putin a complete pass on the Russian election interference. He's a giant coward, too scared to push Putin on the matter. Of course there are OTHER reasons Trump wasn't more forceful about this, and I'm almost certain Mueller knows what those reasons are. I just hope that one day justice will be done, and Trump the traitor is held responsible for his actions. 
