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Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Is The Real Villain
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- Rand Radio
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- Dec 14, 2025
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- 110
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LIMITED TIME DEAL: 60% OFF FOR CHRISTMAS It would make a good slug for a screenplay: A CIA director works with a sitting president to undermine his opponent and help steal an election. When the opposition returns four years later and wins the presidency, heads must roll. Welcome to the show. This screenplay could have been written by Sen. Rand Paul, who saw Brennan as a villain years earlier. Paul was the only Senator who strongly opposed Brennan’s confirmation as Obama’s CIA Director in 2013. “When I filibustered his nomination for nearly 13 hrs,” Paul posted on X , “I never imagined the degree of his deceit. I am proud to have been the only U.S. senator to have voted no.” Paul used the filibuster when you had to pay a price: he talked for 13 hrs in the Senate. That’s how bad he wanted to stop Brennan, who voted for Gus Hall for president in 1976. Hall was a member of the Communist Party. The question becomes: How on earth did Brennan get confirmed as CIA director? Who would vote for a Communist sympathizer to head one of the world’s most powerful spy agencies? After all, once a Communist, always a Communist. Sen. Paul Vindicated Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan doesn’t like Communists or other ne’er-do-wells who seek to subvert the Constitution. In late October, Jordan referred John Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. Brennan is accused of knowingly making false statements during an interview before the Committee in 2023. According to a press release from the Committee, “While testifying, Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact that were contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA.” Denying that the CIA reli…