{"id":19381,"date":"2017-01-22T04:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T04:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19381"},"modified":"2017-01-22T04:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T04:26:53","slug":"ex-cia-boss-deeply-saddened-and-angered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19381","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CIA boss &#8216;deeply saddened and angered&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AAm6lL0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19382\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AAm6lL0-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AAm6lL0-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AAm6lL0.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Brennan believes the new president of the United States conducted a &#8220;shameful&#8221; display\u00a0in a most inappropriate place.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to agree with him.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan is the former CIA director who reportedly is &#8220;deeply saddened and angered&#8221; that Donald J. Trump would stand before the CIA Memorial Wall to chastise the media for its reporting of the crowd size at the president&#8217;s inaugural ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/ex-cia-director-trump-should-be-ashamed-of-himself\/ar-AAm6e3y?li=BBnb7Kz\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/ex-cia-director-trump-should-be-ashamed-of-himself\/ar-AAm6e3y?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hill reported this, quoting former CIA deputy chief of staff Nick Shapiro: &#8220;Former CIA director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump&#8217;s despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA&#8217;s Memorial Wall of Agency heroes. Brennan says that Trump should be ashamed of himself,&#8221; Shapiro said in a pair of tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s the president.<\/p>\n<p>The Memorial Wall contains 117 stars that memorialize the CIA agents who&#8217;ve made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty for the United States. They are heroes. It&#8217;s a place of honor and dignity. It is not the place for anyone &#8212; even the president &#8212; to make patently political statements.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there he was today. He virtually ignored the sacrifice made by the individuals honored on that wall. The president chose instead to make cheap political points.<\/p>\n<p>The former CIA director is correct. The president&#8217;s actions were a &#8220;despicable display of self-aggrandizement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Brennan believes the new president of the United States conducted a &#8220;shameful&#8221; display\u00a0in a most inappropriate place. I happen to agree with him. Brennan is the former CIA director who reportedly is &#8220;deeply saddened and angered&#8221; that Donald J. 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