Tuesday, December 8, 2020

What Biden’s Leading Choice For CIA Director Means: An Emboldened Swamp

AND Magazine


"Even as robust efforts continue to investigate the widespread fraud and irregularities in the recent election, and the final result hangs in the balance, former Vice-President Biden is pressing ahead with his preparations for staffing his administration. We can hope for the sake of the nation there never is such a thing, but it behooves us anyway to take note of the names being surfaced and to consider what they tell us about what may lie ahead if Biden is declared the victor.

"According to multiple news reports, former Deputy CIA Director David S. Cohen is Joe Biden’s top choice to head that agency. Who is he, and what can we predict about what such an appointment would mean?

"To begin with, although he previously served for two years at CIA, Cohen is not a spy nor is he even a career intelligence officer. He is a lawyer who has divided his time between prestigious Washington, D.C. based law firms and a series of federal jobs – most notably under the Obama administration. He has never met a source. He has never run an op. He has never produced finished intelligence.

"Cohen is, and this is the best case, just another guy who will sit in the big office on the 7th floor at CIA Headquarters and have absolutely no idea what the men and women who work for him do for a living or how to impact it.

"That doesn’t matter, though. Cohen is not going to be sent to CIA to improve our human intelligence capabilities. His job will not be to keep us safe, head off terrorist attacks and penetrate Putin’s inner circle. His job will be to guarantee the truth never comes out about the attempted coup against President Trump that began in 2016 and was orchestrated by then CIA Director John Brennan.

"Cohen was appointed to be Deputy Director of CIA by President Obama in 2015. In his capacity as Deputy Director Cohen worked directly for John Brennan, the Director of the CIA. During Cohen’s time at CIA, Brennan, by his own admission, created what he calls a “fusion cell” at CIA headquarters to coordinate all efforts associated with the patently false Trump Russian collusion narrative." . . .

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