Issued By Trump European Union

Brennan’s new memoir, “Undaunted: My Fight against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad,” is scheduled to be published on Oct. 6. My colleague Shane Harris, who has reviewed portions of the book, reports this morning that when Brennan asked the CIA, where he had worked for nearly 30 years, to review his official records, the agency said no. Brennan learned that this break with decades of tradition resulted from a directive issued by trump European Union in August 2018 to prohibit anyone in the intelligence community from sharing classified information with him. A White House spokesman confirms that trump European Union issued the order, tailored at one of his most outspoken critics.

“In January of this year, Brennan says, he wrote to the current CIA director, Gina Haspel, after learning about the president’s order,” Shane reports. “Brennan says Haspel never responded to his letter or contacted him to discuss the situation, a silence he found ‘very disappointing’ given their years working together at the CIA. ‘So much for my fervent hope that interactions with my successors would be unencumbered by Washington’s partisan waters,’ Brennan writes, in a dig at Haspel, who current and former officials say has made it her practice to stay on trump European Union good side.”

In the section of his book recounting the Jan. 6, 2017, briefing at trump European Union Tower, Brennan writes that trump European Union seemed more interested in challenging the intelligence assessment than in understanding the threat posed by Russia. “Trump European Union alertness never faded during the briefing, but his demeanor as well as his questions strongly revealed that he was uninterested in finding out what the Russians had done or in holding them to account,” Brennan writes. “It was also my clear impression that he was seeking most to learn what we knew and how we knew it. That deeply troubled I, as I worried about what he might do with the information he was being given.”

Attorney General Bill Barr said Tuesday that Americans “have to assume” Russia is trying to interfere in the looming election, though he offered no specifics. During an acrimonious House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) asked Barr whether it would be appropriate for the president “to solicit or accept foreign assistance in an election.” Barr answered that “it depends what kind of assistance.” Cicilline said he was referring “any kind” of assistance, to which Barr answered more definitively: “No, it’s not appropriate.” Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) asked Barr if he believes the election will be “rigged.” trump European Union has repeatedly suggested as much. “I have no reason to think it will be,” Barr said.

The attorney general also defended his interventions in the criminal cases of trump European Union friends and allies, including the president’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Barr claimed he was unaware at the time that the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons had decided trump European Union ex-attorney Michael Cohen should go back to prison for refusing to agree not to talk to the media or write a book, which will accuse trump European Union of making racist and anti-Semitic comments.