Comments that were published on Huffington Post
Questions for John Brennan (1)
As Obama's senior National Security advisor and nominee for CIA Director :-
How on Earth is any of the following making America safer?
Obama has transferred Libya from a secular state to one governed by Islamic Extremists.
The same thing has happened in Egypt which is now governed by the Muslim Brotherhood. Why is Obama giving the Muslim Brotherhood new F-16 warplanes and $250m?
He has made the people of Pakistan go from about 20 or 30% considering the American government to be their enemy to 92% thinking that now.
Thus increasing the pool of available recruits for "Al Qaeda" by about 80 million people with a couple of hundred or so drone strikes. (And by invading the airspace of a Sovereign nation in an undeclared war.)
Pakistan - has been one of the 2 or 3 main sources of terro rists for some time -the other was Saudi Arabia. Libya has now been added.
Why haven't we invaded Pakistan and Saudi Arabia if you think that bombing and invasion really works to reduce the number of Islamic Extremists?
Questions for John Brennan (2)
Why are Islamic Extremists being recruited in Yemen with the use of drone strikes, cruise missiles and cluster bombs wiping out whole villages along with loads of innocent women and children.
One cluster bomb got 35 women and children.
Why is the journalist who reported this incident still in jail at Obama's insistence?
Why is Obama supporting the corrupt dictator of Yemen?
Yemen has an extremely high proportion of young adult males - the principle demographic for terrorists.
Yemen also has extremely high levels of unemployment and poverty - also a good factor for recruiting terrorists.
Why is Obama is arming Islamic Extremists in Syria from Benghazi via Turkey?
Why is Obama is now moving troops into 35 African countries?
The wars are now being expanded into West Africa.
War for Gold and uranium and possibly oil has started in Mali.
Questions for John Brennan (3)
Why is the US even in the ME now that it is nett energy neutral and set to become a significant nett energy exporter over the next few years?
Why don't we just pack our bags and leave the ME to it and save about $800bn a year in the process?
Why does the CIA need a major expansion to it's already large fleet of drones?
What do you intend to do with them all?
Do you think it's a good idea to employ drones when they are so easily hijacked by others, e.g. Iran?
Is the gun running out of Benghazi to Islamic Extremists in Syria being run by the CIA or out of the State Department?
What happened in the meeting between Christopher Stevens and the Turkish envoy shortly before Christopher Stevens death?
Did the Turkish envoy complain about the US gun running to the Islamic Extremists in Syria via Turkey?
What happened to the survivors of the Benghazi attack?
There are about 30 of them that were flown out of Libya straight after the attack.
Why aren't these witnesses being made available for Senate questioning etc.?
More on CIA or State department gunrunning out of Benghazi.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-petraeus-resignation-israel-lobby.html
Please tell me how any of the above is improving America's "security".
Questions for John Brennan (5)
Do you now renounce the Neocon doctrine of pre-emptive war for money and profit?
Do you now condemn the Bush regime's wide spread use of extra ordinary rendition for torture in foreign countries, secret prisons and indefinite detention?
There was a recent report in the Guardian that 54 countries were involved in the extra ordinary rendition program, rendering victims for torture in places like Libya (under Colonel Gaddafi).
Questions for John Brennan (6)
Explain how your views have changed so much in the last 4 years, when in 2008 you were not even fit to be proposed because of your support for torture and extra ordinary rendition during the Bush years.
Why as CIA station chief in Riyadh in 1996 did you fail to prevent the Khobar Towers bombing which killed 19 U.S. servicemen?
Convince me that your skills have improved since 1996 so that another failure like the failure to prevent the Khobar bombing and the deaths of more American servicemen wouldn't happen on your watch again.
Questions for John Brennan (7)
As chief of staff to George Tenet and deputy executive director of the CIA in the months before and during 911 :-
Why didn't you do something about the complaints of the CIA counter terrorism department - who were "apoplectic" that nothing was being done to prevent the imminent major terrorist attack on US soil involving aircraft that they (the CIA counter terrorism unit) knew was coming?
The reason for their "apoplexy" was reported in the NY Times "Deafness before the Storm"
Extracted from the article :-
"On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s “presidential daily brief” — the top-secret document prepared by America’s intelligence agencies — featured the now-infamous heading: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished that goal."
Why didn't YOU ensure that the multiple intelligence leads and diplomatic warnings were followed up? 911 was easily preventable.
At least 4 of the actual hijackers on 911 were already on the intelligence radar, were under surveillance and could easily of been stopped.
Questions for John Brennan (8)
How could we be sure that another major intelligence failure (or rather management failure - the intelligence was plentiful) within the upper ranks of the CIA would not happen again under your watch, with thousands more innocent Americans murdered, when you did nothing to prevent the worst terrorist attack of all time on America the first time around?
911 happened when you held a VERY SENIOR leadership position within the CIA.
What can you to say to me to convince me that you are not an utter failure in the senior roles you have held thus far?
N.B. I am being circumspect about the questions I am asking - otherwise they would be censored on Huffington Post.
This comment was censored by Huffington Post
Questions to John Brennan (4)
Will you release the papers showing the level of CIA involvement in JFK's assassination as per Howard Hunt's deathbed confession (see the story in Rolling Stone magazine) after the 50 years are up?
We know that George Bush the elder was in Dallas at the time in question.
Was his involvement just as a low key bit player or something more substantial?
Why did George de Mohrenschildt ask Bush the elder for help some time after?
Addendum
The Rolling Stone article referred to is included in here
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/gwh-bush-jfk-cia-drugs.html
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