What he says vs. what he thinks….
This is unprecedented. Will it get the wide coverage it deserves? But think of it, a sitting CIA director just said the following about Trump’s absurd body language claim that "I'm pretty good with body language. I could tell they were not happy."
But Brennan said he was "fully confident" they'd done no such thing in an interview with John Dickerson on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
"I know the briefers that have been briefing the candidates," Brennan said. "They are the quintessential professional intelligence officers. They do their work very well."
"We don't comment on policy," Brennan added. "We don't give policy recommendations, so I am fully confident that they comported themselves with the utmost professionalism and demonstrated their real breadth and depth of intelligence capabilities."
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In other words, unsaid but I’ll wager that Bennan was thinking that Trump was lying or delusional, or maybe equal parts of both. Brennan is the CIA chief and knows that pathological liars often see and believe what they want to see and believe.
Mike Morell, who was acting CIA Director under Obama was less restrained:
Discussing what happened during a classified briefing was among the many faux pas Trump has committed during his candidacy. Michael Morell, a CIA veteran who served as acting director under Obama, called Trump’s comments unprecedented and “highly inappropriate.”
“This is the first time that I can remember a candidate for president doing a readout from an intelligence briefing, and it’s the first time a candidate has politicized their intelligence briefing,” Morell said. “Both of those are highly inappropriate and crossed a long standing red line respected by both parties.” www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Once again, we wonder what if anything will stick to Teflon Don.
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