Spies and Their Lies: the Trials and Tribulations at Guantanamo
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John Brennan never should have been appointed CIA director in the first place. During the Tenet era, he was the chief of staff and deputy executive director, and provided no opposition to decisions to conduct torture and abuse, and—even worse—to render suspected individuals to foreign intelligence services that conducted their own torture. Brennan was also an active defender of the program of warrantless eavesdropping, implemented at the National Security Agency under the leadership of one of...

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