Of Course Obama Expresses Confidence in John Brennan

Because Barack Obama has made it quite clear that spying on Congress and shilling for torturers is no big deal:

President Obama said on Friday that he has “full confidence” in John Brennan, the director of the C.I.A., despite Mr. Brennan’s admission this week that his agency improperly searched the computers of the congressional committee that is preparing to release a report on the use of torture in the fight against terror.

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Asked about the upcoming release of a report that documents American interrogation techniques, Mr. Obama said the C.I.A. exercised “very poor judgment” in its handling of the report. But he said that Mr. Brennan had apologized for the incident to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“I have full confidence in John Brennan,” Mr. Obama said, noting an inspector general’s conclusions about the C.I.A. spying on the committee. “It’s clear from the I.G. report that some very poor judgment was shown in how that was handled. Keep in mind that John Brennan was the one who called for the I.G. report.”

Let us be clear: The CIA did not exercise, "poor judgement," people exercised poor judgement.

People spied on Congress.

People broke cyber crime laws.

People showed contempt for the Constitutional separation of powers.

People, in this case John Brennan specifically, went on the Sunday shows and explicitly lied about this.

People were responsible, and people should be fired, prosecuted, etc. over all of this.