{"id":99441,"date":"2018-05-21T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=99441"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:30:36","slug":"unprecedented-former-cia-director-brennan-warns-congressional-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=99441","title":{"rendered":"UNPRECEDENTED: Former CIA Director Brennan Warns Congressional Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>John Brennan Fires Warning Shot to Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell After Trump Orders DOJ to Investigate FBI\u2019s Campaign Infiltration<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Cristina Laila<br \/>\nGateway Pundit<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter troll, John Brennan lashed out at Trump on Sunday evening after the President ordered the DOJ to investigate the FBI\u2019s infiltration of his campaign.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brennan also fired a warning shot to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, claiming they will \u2018bear the majority of the responsibility of the harm done to our democracy\u2019 if they don\u2019t stop Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"thega-1149662329\" class=\"thega-content\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1493995449995-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-397201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-brennan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As previously\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/05\/breaking-president-trump-to-order-doj-investigate-alleged-spying-on-his-campaign-by-obama-admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0by TGP\u2019s Kristinn Taylor, President Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon he is ordering the Justice Department to investigate whether the Obama administration spied on his 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The order comes on the heels of leaks to the New York Times and Washington Post that the Obama administration had an \u201cinformant\u201d make several approaches to three Trump campaign officials, included one that involved an offer of cash and another an offer to \u201cadvise\u201d the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump tweeted<\/strong>: \u201cI hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI\/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes \u2014 and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!\u201d the president tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Brennan warned Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after Trump ordered the DOJ to review the FBI\u2019s infiltration of his campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brennan tweeted<\/strong>: Senator McConnell &amp; Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation &amp; the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump\u2019s self-serving actions.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan also sent out a peculiar cryptic tweet earlier on Sunday that had Twitter buzzing:<\/p>\n<p>John Brennan is in hot water which is why he continues to lash out at President Trump from his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<div id=\"thega-295242656\" class=\"thega-content\">\n<p>Brennan is caught in a perjury trap over his statements about Hillary\u2019s phony dossier in a May 2017 testimony to the intel panel.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s former CIA chief was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/05\/developing-brennan-with-help-from-strzok-and-john-kerry-were-trying-to-set-up-russian-espionage-traps-for-minor-players-in-trumps-camp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0also involved in setting up Russian espionage traps<\/a>\u00a0for minor players in Trump\u2019s camp, according the investigative reporter, Paul Sperry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>On Sunday evening, the DOJ asked Inspector General to probe any alleged \u201cimpropriety or political motivation\u201d into the FBI\u2019s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/05\/john-brennan-fires-warning-shot-to-paul-ryan-and-mitch-mcconnell-after-trump-orders-doj-to-investigate-fbis-campaign-infiltration\/\">http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/05\/john-brennan-fires-warning-shot-to-paul-ryan-and-mitch-mcconnell-after-trump-orders-doj-to-investigate-fbis-campaign-infiltration\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Brennan Fires Warning Shot to Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell After Trump Orders DOJ to Investigate FBI\u2019s Campaign Infiltration<\/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-99441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99441","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=99441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}