John O. Brennan, CEO of the Passportgate Company is a major SPOOK

[JCMach1]

was (is???) a major SPOOK and has ties to the Obama campaign... I am much more concerned about the Spook part... Yikes, this guy was really connected to Bush as well. Okay, put on your tinfoil, this could get bumpy.

On the heels of a Washington Times report yesterday, CNN is now breathlessly reporting that the boss of one of the employees embroiled in the State Department passport scandal is a “ consultant to the Barack Obama campaign.”

That “consultant,” is John O. Brennan, a veteran intelligence official who served as former CIA Director George Tenet’s right-hand man in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Brennan’s employee is still on the job but allegedly cooperating with the federal government’s investigation into the passport breaches, according to CNN.

But what CNN is not telling you is who sits above Brennan in the corporate food chain in this tale of presidential intrigue.

Brennan is the president and CEO of the national-security consulting firm The Analysis Corp., which is owned by an even larger spook-assistance firm called SFA Inc. — which last year was acquired by a British firm called the Global Strategies Group.

And guess who heads the U.S. operations of Global Strategies — whose subsidiary, The Analysis Corp., holds the State Department contract that opened the door for its employee to breach the passport records of both Obama and allegedly Sen. John McCain as well?

The president of Global Strategies Group (USA) LLC is John Hillen, a former high-level State Department employee who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2005-2007 — just prior to being tapped to lead Global Strategies’ U.S. operations.

Hillen also is a former contributor to the neo-con mouthpiece publication the National Review and served as an advisor on defense policy to George W. Bush’ 2000 presidential campaign... http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2008/3/22/232832/571

Also, there is some more basic info here...

http://thesyndrome.com/2008/03/23/john-o-brennan-and-his-connections-some-background-on-passportgate/#more-1863

[grasswire]

1. I noticed that yesterday.

Playing both sides, I guess.

[blm]

18. I would say more that they PLACE THEMSELVES into those positions through DC connections

and that they do it with EVERY campaign. I am certain GOPs and spooks have historically been in every primary candidate's campaign, even Dennis Kucinich's.

[leftofthedial]

2. when it comes to major spooks,

there is no "was"

[JCMach1]

3. Exactly, there are lots of unanswered questions here

[L. Coyote]

7. Any relation to the Brennans in Missouri, big R donor = John Brennan

[TomClash]

4. The National Review is not a neo-con publication

Brennan probably opposed the War - like most of the career intel men and women.

[peacetalksforall]

5. What do you call the National Review? What is your definition of Neo-Con?

[TomClash]

14. The National Review is paleo-conservative or traditional conservative

Neo-cons are tolerated but not liked by traditional conservatives.

[L. Coyote]

6. BRENNAN, JOHN = 1/28/2008 - $2,300 - Obama, Barack

BRENNAN, JOHN
HERNDON,VA 20171

THE ANALYSIS CORPORATION/PRESIDENT
1/28/2008 - $2,300 - Obama, Barack

according to campaign contribution records ??? at opensecrets.org.
http://opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=qpybp&txtName=Brennan,%20john&txtState=(all%20states)&txtAll=Y&Order=D

[donkeyotay]

8. Obama will be Crowned, so to speak.

Michelle Obama's hospital: On senator's wish-list
by Mike Dorning

In among them was a request for $1 million in federal funding in 2006 for a new pavilion at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where his wife, Michelle Obama, was a vice president at the time. The request was not ultimately included when Congress passed spending legislation that year, according to the Obama campaign.

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/michelle_obamas_hospital.html

The comments are instructive, especially the one about Michelle's salary getting tripled. Crown also published Obama's book. General Dynamics and University of Chicago Hospital, is that UCH or UHC? Innovation or Novation? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[donkeyotay]

11. Other trustees include David Rubenstein of Carlyle

Thomas A Cole of Sidley Austin - another Michelle employer - and John W Rogers of Ariel Capital - another Obama supporter and employer of Mellody Hobson. Lots of these people involved in 2 organizations: Commercial Club of Chicago and Chicago Council on Global Affairs. This Crown fellow is even linked to Bear Sterns via Henry S. Bienen, who is "a senior review panel member for the CIA."

Organize the peasants. Rrright.

[Peace Patriot]

9. This is getting to be as Byzantine as Plamegate....

Mis-direction in every direction.

[Peace Patriot]

10. Why would a spook--if said spook is pro-Obama--spy on Obama's passport file?

I don't think it's bad or good for Obama to have spooks on his side. It's just realistic. What presidential candidate, with any hope of actually becoming president, wouldn't want--and need--friends in the spook community?

But why would a spook, who is on Obama's side, go rifling through Obama's passport files? And why would specific details of Obama's travels then immediately turn up in Clinton palaver (his "brief stopover" in a NATO country in 2005)?

Some possibilities (presuming that this spook actually did the unauthorized snooping): 1. The spook is a mole (is pro-Clinton--wormed himself into Obama's adviser group, as a spy and dirty trickster). 2. The spook was not looking for info in Obama's files, but rather removing something, or changing something, to help Obama (and really is pro-Obama)(--a bit far-fetched, since it's hard to imagine what Obama's passport file might contain that could hurt him--an unauthorized stop in North Korea?). 3. The spook is a Bushite, and was spying on both Obama's and Clinton's passport files, and just peeked into McBush's file as cover. He then fed details to Clinton, to create anger and paranoia in Obama's camp. Clinton got suckered into using the details.

I'm kind of favoring this last possibility, because it's so Rovian. (And Rove, you know, is no more "retired" than Donald Rumsfeld is.) (Rumsfeld is orchestrating Oil War II: South America!)

[Rageneau]

12. I'll tell you why -- so he could blame Hillary for it, that's why.

Since your own post cited several paranoid possibilities as to how the HRC campaign could SOMEHOW be behind this breech, let me show you what your thinking looks like from outside Obamaland.

Obama himself is behind this breech. He used this Republican-CIA campaign-donor pal of his to violate his own Passport files, and then his campaign saw that the news was released and contained in such a way as to make Hillary look culpable. Some tenuous contact to Hillary would then be 'discovered, 'so she could be (and WAS) immediately pronounced guilty of espionage by the Obama Campaign and its MSM surrogates such as Russert and Olberman who sputter on-cue that HRC did it again. She's a crook. How dare she! Poor Obama. Case closed.

IOW, the reason Obama's own campiagn might be behind this is because the idea is to continue to find ways to make Obama look like a victim of mean old Hillary -- even if that means staging a third-rate burglary.

See how easy it is to play the Paranoia Game?

[Peace Patriot]

15. Yup, that's Byzantine! nt

[Fahan]

20. Tinfoil hat on

It is easy to tinfoil this one.

Obama, his long time friend of 20 years, Antoin Rezco and his connection too British Iraqi born billianaire and political manipulator, with John O Conner an Obama consultant on the same page. What next..... Another company like Halliburton.

Don't blame me....The Neocons have got away with this sort of thing forever.

[librechik]

13. exactly--was he covert to Obama as well?

there are lots of hidden agendas in the Village, and no reason to assume Obam knew he was a spook rather than an expert on intelligence and security with a high recommendation from someone he trusted (disclaimer I'm an independent former Edwards supporter)

[Joanne98]

16. Stop the outsourcing. Only the government should do passports..

Give the job to the post office. they're pretty honest.

[dmr]

17. Agree - STOP the outsourcing

Way too dangerous.

I wonder a lot about how the government feels the need to spy on average Americans, yet outsources vital resources. Just who is doing the vetting?

[Echo In Light]

19. Self delete - wrong spook post