Here's what triggered the latest deadly sectarian clashes in Syria, and why it matters
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in reply to YoungBlood • • •He has a record of serially lying to Congress, the public, and the media, and doing so emphatically.
In 2011, as the government’s chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan absurdly insisted that the Obama administration’s drone strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border had not killed a single civilian noncombatant. Yet multiple sources proved the claim was clearly false. In truth, the number of innocents killed was likely somewhere between 50 and 70.
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in reply to YoungBlood • • •In 2014, as director of the CIA, Brennan lied again, doubling down by denying that CIA operatives were hacking into U.S. Senate staffers’ computers.
“As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. . . . We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.”
Here, too, he was caught lying and forced to apologize—but never charged with perjury.