[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  The Vigilant Fox 🦊 [@VigilantFox](/creator/twitter/VigilantFox) on x 1.9M followers Created: 2025-07-15 15:53:03 UTC Victor Davis Hanson laid out the case bluntly: John Brennan wasn’t just a bureaucrat who played politics, but someone who built a career on reinvention, spin, and outright lies....and left a trail of wreckage in American politics that’s still being reckoned with. As Hanson put it, there’s a reason Brennan is back in the spotlight. “Recently, Pam Bondi and the Trump Department of Justice has said they are running an investigation into James Comey and John Brennan's career as the respective FBI Director and the CIA head during the Obama administration. And in the case of Comey, the first year of the Trump administration,” he said. “They are very angry about this, but let's just review why there might be some culpability.” Hanson started with Brennan’s talent for switching sides when it suited him. Under George W. Bush, Brennan was a champion of harsh interrogation and Guantanamo. “Take John Brennan. He was a big proponent of waterboarding and enhanced interrogation under George W Bush's administration. And the things that went on in Guantanamo,” Hanson said. But when power changed hands, so did Brennan’s story. “But he flipped to condition himself to go into the Obama administration. And then he attacked the very president that he had served, George Bush.” Hanson described how Brennan went further, rebranding his entire approach to counterterrorism to fit Obama’s worldview. “Then he began sounding, sounding off about Islam, religion of peace, Jihadism is not a violent act, to condition himself further, to be appointed by Obama, which he was eventually as CIA director.” For Hanson, that wasn’t just another political calculation...it set the stage for Brennan’s most brazen deceptions.  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) [pam bondi](/topic/pam-bondi) [Post Link](https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1945149620843139320)
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Created: 2025-07-15 15:53:03 UTC
Victor Davis Hanson laid out the case bluntly: John Brennan wasn’t just a bureaucrat who played politics, but someone who built a career on reinvention, spin, and outright lies....and left a trail of wreckage in American politics that’s still being reckoned with.
As Hanson put it, there’s a reason Brennan is back in the spotlight.
“Recently, Pam Bondi and the Trump Department of Justice has said they are running an investigation into James Comey and John Brennan's career as the respective FBI Director and the CIA head during the Obama administration. And in the case of Comey, the first year of the Trump administration,” he said.
“They are very angry about this, but let's just review why there might be some culpability.”
Hanson started with Brennan’s talent for switching sides when it suited him. Under George W. Bush, Brennan was a champion of harsh interrogation and Guantanamo.
“Take John Brennan. He was a big proponent of waterboarding and enhanced interrogation under George W Bush's administration. And the things that went on in Guantanamo,” Hanson said.
But when power changed hands, so did Brennan’s story.
“But he flipped to condition himself to go into the Obama administration. And then he attacked the very president that he had served, George Bush.”
Hanson described how Brennan went further, rebranding his entire approach to counterterrorism to fit Obama’s worldview.
“Then he began sounding, sounding off about Islam, religion of peace, Jihadism is not a violent act, to condition himself further, to be appointed by Obama, which he was eventually as CIA director.”
For Hanson, that wasn’t just another political calculation...it set the stage for Brennan’s most brazen deceptions.
XXXXXX engagements
Related Topics donald trump pam bondi