{"id":35837,"date":"2020-11-10T19:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=35837"},"modified":"2020-11-10T19:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:24:31","slug":"take-a-close-look-at-how-scared-this-ex-spook-is-about-the-coming-trump-declass-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=35837","title":{"rendered":"Take a close look at how scared this ex-spook is about the coming Trump declass! (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ex-CIA Chief Under Obama Urges Palace Coup Against Trump So He Doesn&#8217;t &#8220;Declassify Everything&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>On Monday amid the Trump administration&#8217;s election challenge turmoil which has resulted in over a\u00a0dozen lawsuits filed\u00a0in several battleground states, Donald Trump Jr. urged the president to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/donald-trump-jr-declassify-everything\">unleash the nuclear option<\/a>:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;DECLASSIFY EVERYTHING!!!&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0he urged in all caps. &#8220;We can&#8217;t let the bad actors get away with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/foreign-policy\/declassify-the-russiagate-papers\/\">picked up on the idea<\/a>: &#8220;Here\u2019s something constructive Trump could do before leaving office at noon on January 20:\u00a0<strong>he could order \u2014 demand, insist \u2014 that all classified intel and other documents related to the origin of the Russia\/election investigation be declassified and released to the public forthwith \u2014 unredacted<\/strong>,&#8221; columnist Sheldon Richman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for this distinct possibility to attract the attention of both the mainstream media and the intelligence establishment which has so long been at odds (or even at &#8216;war&#8217;) with the president. Reacting specifically to the ouster of Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, ex-CIA spy chief under the Obama administration John Brennan essentially\u00a0<strong>urged a palace coup against Trump<\/strong>\u00a0prior to January 20th\u00a0<strong>to ensure he doesn&#8217;t declassify anything sensitive or too revealing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1325998334037864450&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fex-cia-chief-under-obama-urges-palace-coup-against-trump-so-he-doesnt-declassify&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1325998334037864450\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>In the incredible Monday evening CNN interview,\u00a0Brennan &#8211;\u00a0himself responsible for stoking the now widely debunked Russiagate claims from the start of the Trump presidency &#8211;\u00a0<strong>brazenly urged Vice President Mike Pence to seize power<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He asserted that despite Biden preparing to transition into the White House on inauguration day, still two months away, at this point Trump is a threat to national security:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I\u2019m very concerned what he might do in his remaining 70 days in office,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0said Brennan on Monday&#8217;s edition of Cuomo Prime Time. &#8220;Is he going to take some type of military action?<strong>\u00a0Is he going to release some type of information that could, in fact, threaten our national security interests?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brennan took things even further and added specifics in terms of what the former longtime spy chief wants to see happen:\u00a0&#8220;If Vice President Pence and the cabinet had an ounce of fortitude and spine and patriotism,\u00a0<strong>I think they would seriously consider invoking the 25th Amendment and pushing Donald Trump out because he is just very unpredictable now<\/strong>,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1325670157658755073&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fex-cia-chief-under-obama-urges-palace-coup-against-trump-so-he-doesnt-declassify&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1325670157658755073\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>And referencing what appears to be a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/exodus-coming-four-trump-officials-left-posts-ballots-were-counted\">post-election purge and exodus<\/a>\u00a0following multiple federal agency top officials\u00a0either being pushed out or resigning since last Thursday even as votes were being tallied, Brennan suggested this is part of a Trump conspiracy to compromise national security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Mark Esper has been pushed aside because he is not listening to Donald Trump, carrying out these orders, who knows what his successor, this acting secretary Chris Miller&#8217;s going to do if Donald Trump does give some type of order that really is counter to what I think our national security interests need to be,&#8221; Brennan said.<\/p>\n<p>But thankfully few actually in power are likely to listen to John Brennan, given his sour grapes and\u00a0anger at Trump has\u00a0<strong>clearly long been\u00a0<em>personal<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1326284851268489217&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fex-cia-chief-under-obama-urges-palace-coup-against-trump-so-he-doesnt-declassify&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1326284851268489217\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After all, who can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/16\/us\/politics\/ex-cia-director-john-brennan-strikes-back-after-trump-revokes-his-security-clearance.html\">forget this episode<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director under President Barack Obama,\u00a0<strong>struck back at President Trump on Thursday for revoking his security clearance, calling the president\u2019s claims of &#8220;no collusion&#8221; with Russia to influence the 2016 election &#8220;hogwash&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0and arguing that the commander in chief was trying to silence anyone who would dare challenge him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So given Brennan is now openly and literally calling for an illegal overthrow of the president of the United States so he can&#8217;t continue his final two months in office,<strong>\u00a0Trump appears fully vindicated in having revoked his security clearance in the first place<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/ex-cia-chief-under-obama-urges-palace-coup-against-trump-so-he-doesnt-declassify\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/ex-cia-chief-under-obama-urges-palace-coup-against-trump-so-he-doesnt-declassify<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-CIA Chief Under Obama Urges Palace Coup Against Trump So He Doesn&#8217;t &#8220;Declassify Everything&#8221; ZeroHedge.com On Monday amid the Trump administration&#8217;s election challenge turmoil which has resulted in over a\u00a0dozen lawsuits filed\u00a0in several battleground states, Donald Trump Jr. urged the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=35837\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}