The new CIA
director John Brennan is always ready to do dirty work, no matter who is the
president of the United States, says former CIA analyst Ray
McGovern.
“Brennan has
always been willing to do the dirty work of whatever president he served,” said
McGovern in a phone interview with the U.S. Desk on
Sunday.
Despite
opposition to his nomination over his role in the U.S. drone program and answers
from the Obama administration regarding the attack on the U.S. consulate in
Benghazi last year, Brennan was confirmed as the new CIA director on
Thursday.
“John Brennan is
whatever the president wants him to be. Obama is behind the drone program for
reasons that boggle the mind,” said McGovern.
In 2009,
President Obama made an attempt to nominate Brennan for the same position, but
Brennan withdrew his name from consideration after facing strong criticism for
being too closely associated with the CIA torture program under former U.S.
president George W. Bush.
“When Bush
wanted to kidnap people and put them in black prisons or give them to friendly
intelligence services, so-called, to be tortured, Brennan was an open advocate
of that,” McGovern added.
Regarding the
attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last year, McGovern said that Brennan
knows that the U.S. mission there “had an operation for arms smuggling to” those
who were trying to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad.
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