{"id":119824,"date":"2019-03-29T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=119824"},"modified":"2019-03-29T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:22:18","slug":"ex-cia-dir-john-brennan-accused-of-rigging-intelligence-reports-against-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=119824","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CIA Dir. John Brennan accused of &#8220;rigging intelligence reports against President Donald Trump&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rep. Pete King: Brennan &#8216;Evil Force&#8217; Throughout Mueller Probe<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Sandy Fitzgerald<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Former CIA Director John Brennan has been an &#8220;evil force&#8221; throughout the Trump-Russia investigation, Rep. Pete King said Thursday, adding he&#8217;s suspected him of rigging intelligence reports against President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign and during his transition period.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Since then, he&#8217;s repeatedly been on television and in the media talking about collusion,&#8221; the New York Republican told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6019274060001\/?playlist_id=903354961001#sp=show-clips\">Fox News&#8217; &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Now he says maybe he misinterpreted the evidence. If that&#8217;s the case, it means number one, either he&#8217;s a liar, or number two, he wasn&#8217;t smart enough to be CIA director.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Brennan &#8220;disgraced his office,&#8221; King said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;For him to say the president&#8217;s guilty of collusion, of treason, that, to me, was evil to say unless he had absolute proof. As it turns out, he had none,&#8221; King said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His comments followed claims by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/brennan-clapper-comey-dossier\/2019\/03\/28\/id\/909118\/\">Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.<\/a>,\u00a0that Brennan had been pushing for the discredited Christopher Steele dossier created about Trump during the election to be attached to an intelligence report to help legitimize it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The lawmaker also said that if Brennan and other Obama-era intelligence officials knew that the dossier had been funded by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, then they should not have been in office.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I hope I would say the same thing if this were done against President Obama or Hillary Clinton if she had been elected,&#8221; King said. &#8220;This is wrong to have the law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the United States conspiring to unseat and to bring down a duly elected president of the United States when they know there&#8217;s no evidence there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/pete-king-brennan-cia\/2019\/03\/28\/id\/909150\/\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/pete-king-brennan-cia\/2019\/03\/28\/id\/909150\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Pete King: Brennan &#8216;Evil Force&#8217; Throughout Mueller Probe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}