Why John Brennan hates Donald Trump

The folowing was given to me by former FBI agent John Donovan Sr.  It has been edited (graphs and photos have been emitted).  I am told the information has nothing classified and I was given permission to re-circulate.  For a PDF of the binder Donovan gave me please go to the contact page at: discussionsoftruth

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Why does John Brennan hate The Donald so? 

I  

HATE  

Donald Trump  

 Peace be unto him…

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How to Front Run 

a Counterterrorism Investigation  For Profit 

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Table of Contents 

Chapter 1 - Introduction to John Owen Brennan. Chapter 2 – Brennan’s Career 

Chapter 3 – Brennan’s post CIA payouts. 

Chapter 4 – The Analysis Corporation 

Chapter 5 - The Analysis Corporation Initial Public Offering Chapter 6 – The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Chapter 7 – How to Front-Run Counterterrorism Investigations. Chapter 8 – Anwar Al-Awlaki 

Chapter 9 – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab 

Chapter 10 – Anders Breivik 

Chapter 11 – Boston Marathon Bombing

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Appendices 

Appendix A – White House Visitor Logs 

Appendix B – John O. Brennan, Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Form SF-278 Appendix C – Ethics Waiver for John Brennan re: Post incident review of Abdulmutallab “Underwear” bombing. 

Appendix D – XKEYSCORE – NSA TS/SCI PowerPoint Presentation leaked by Edward Snowden; as reported in Guardian Online. 

Appendix E – Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents related to Initial Public Offering (IPO) of The Analysis Corporation as it underwent name changes resulting in SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc., NASDAQ symbol GTEC. 

Appendix F – FederalPay.Org record related to Teresa Peterson, aka “TP”; Staffer – National Security Counsel, who occasionally scheduled appointments for John O. Brennan. Appendix G – FederalPay.Org records related to Rachel E. Molinaro, aka “REM”, Ethics Advisor, Office of Government Ethics (OGE), who helped John Brennan prepare his onboarding Personnel Financial Disclosure SF-278 in February 2009 

(Appendix B). 

Appendix H – Media reporting on CIA Officer Ryan C. Fogle, who interfered with the Marathon Bombing Investigation by attempting to recruit a Russian FSB Officer who was knowledgeable about Islamist Terror activities in the Caucasus. 

Appendix I - Combined Offices of Inspectors General OIG Post Marathon Bombing review of the Tamerlan Tsarnaev Guardian Assessment. Screen captures from 

oig.justice.gov website. 

Appendix J – Excerpt from President Obama’s Digest of Other White House  Announcements dated December 31, 2013. 

Appendix K - Excerpt from President Obama’s Digest of Other White House Announcements dated December 31, 2010 

Appendix L - Trial testimony by expert witness Mark Spencer, Computer Forensic Specialist, Who states Al-Awlaki files were downloaded onto Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Samsung Laptop from an online source [a SIGINT marker] 

Appendix M - Presentation by John Brennan, President and CEO, The Analysis Corporation, October 18, 2006 

Appendix N - Caroline Krency employment history record from federalpay.org. Krency, aka “CK” was a Staffer on the National Security Council (NSC) for John Brennan and frequently scheduled his appointments in the White House Visitor Log. 

Appendix O – Anwar Al-Awlaki confirmed as a CIA asset in phone call between CIA Director George Tenet and Yemeni President Saleh; January 2001.

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Chapter 1: Introduction to John Owen Brennan. 

THIS is not your typical biography of a public figure.  

This book is part biography, part contemporary history, part crime scene investigation, and part  criminal indictment. The purpose of this book is for the reader to be awakened to the fact that  you, the reader, are a participant in this story, and a victim of the main protagonist. He stole  your time, your peace of mind, and your taxes to enrich himself.  

The protagonist’s criminal scheme, enacted out over the course of many years, was to identify  “useful idiot” terrorists to kill and injure as many of you as necessary to amass as great a fortune  as possible for himself and his cronies. As an added bonus for the protagonist and simply out of  spite, he helped undermine the most successful, beneficial, and economically uplifting society  the world has ever produced – the American Republic. John Owen Brennan not only hates The  Donald (President Trump) – he hates you. 

Despite all of the above, John Owen Brennan has had a government career “…to die for…”.  Brennan travelled the world at taxpayer expense, visiting exotic locales. Brennan participated in, conceived, and directed, the most important foreign intelligence operations in the last 100 years.  Brennan rubbed elbows with and influenced the most powerful leaders in the world – from  advising the King of Saudi Arabia to conducting Daily Intelligence Briefings for President Bill  Clinton.1 Brennan served as the Chief of Station in Saudi Arabia for the Central Intelligence  Agency (CIA),2 was Chief of Staff to CIA Director George Tenet on September 11th, 2001,3 was  the founding Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC),4served as the National  Security Advisor to President Obama for Counterterrorism (NSA/CT), and completed his storied career with a term as Director of the CIA.5  

So… why does John Brennan hate The Donald so? 

Perhaps John Brennan’s animosity to The Donald is due to something that happened in his  childhood? 

John Owen Brennan was born September 22, 1955 to Owen and Dorothy Brennan.6 His father,  Owen Brennan, was a Blacksmith who immigrated to the United States from the Republic of  Ireland in 1948.7 According to her obituary, Brennan’s mother, Dorothy Brennan (nee Dunn), 

1https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

2https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

3Ibid. 

4Ibid. 

5“An interview with TTIC Director John Brennan”; Studies In Intelligence; Vol 48, No. 4, with Paul Johnson, Editor Studies in  Intelligence, interview date July 21, 2004; https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 6John Brennan, son of Irish immigrants, now Obama's top gun; by Niall O'Dowd, IrishCentral.com; John Brennan, son of Irish immigrants,  now Obama's top gun | IrishCentral.com; retrieved 9/17/2023. 

7 Schwartz, Mattathias (June 27, 2018). "A Spymaster Steps Out of the Shadows". The New York Times Magazine.

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was a Merchant Marine shipping company employee and an ardent volunteer during the Second  World War.8  

Owen and Dorothy Brennan raised their three children in North Bergen, NJ – then a peaceful  suburb across the Hudson River from New York City. Young John Brennan attended  Immaculate Heart of Mary, a Catholic elementary school in West New York, NJ.9 Brennan’s  birthdate places him squarely in the “Baby Boom” generation and his age indicates he spent the  years 1962 through 1970 as a student at Immaculate Heart of Mary school. 

As a “Boomer” himself, the author can attest to some of the childhood influences Brennan may  have experienced during his formative years. Nearly all the children in Brennan’s classes would  have been children of parents where the father was a World War II veteran and the mom worked  in some way supporting the war effort - a “Rosie the Riveter-type.” Brennan’s mother was  reportedly heavily involved in helping the Allies win the war by working for a company that sent  ships in convoy across the German submarine infested Atlantic Ocean.10  

The Battle of the Atlantic, which Brennan’s mother participated in by helping to send thousands  of ships across the Atlantic Ocean, lasted from September 3, 1939, to May 8, 1945. For five  long years, Brennan’s mother Dorothy participated in sending thousands of persons, many who  were no doubt personal friends, into a combat zone where 3,500 Allied merchant ships were  

8 DOROTHY BRENNAN Obituary (2017) - Hoboken, NJ - The Jersey Journal (legacy.com); DOROTHY BRENNAN Obituary (2017) - Hoboken, NJ - The Jersey Journal (legacy.com) 

9Jackson, Herb (December 5, 2009). "North Bergen man is homeland security assistant for President Obama". The Bergen Record 10 DOROTHY BRENNAN Obituary (2017) - Hoboken, NJ - The Jersey Journal (legacy.com); DOROTHY BRENNAN Obituary (2017) - Hoboken, NJ - The Jersey Journal (legacy.com)

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sunk and 72,000 sailors lost their lives (9,521 American).11 Brennan’s mother Dorothy must  have been affected by such prolonged exposure to suffering and loss; and she no doubt expressed  those effects subconsciously into the rearing of her three children – including John.12  

A Baby Boomer himself, the author experienced how the defining events of his parent’s lives  (World War II) impacted his own childhood. There was no escaping the fact all the young  families in his middle-class neighborhood had one or more parents who were intimately involved  in serving during World War II, like Brennan’s mother. Brennan’s birth date indicates he  attended elementary school from about 1962 to 1970. Brennan’s peers were kids from young  families, with multiple children (the baby boom), who typically owned a single television set. In  the 1960s most families gathered around this single TV set in the living room to watch the  evening news and after dinner shows. 

11 Battle of the Atlantic (navy.mil); https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and operations/world-war-ii/1942/atlantic.html. 

12 DOROTHY BRENNAN Obituary (2017) - Hoboken, NJ - The Jersey Journal (legacy.com); DOROTHY BRENNAN Obituary (2017) - Hoboken, NJ - The Jersey Journal (legacy.com)

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The most popular TV shows from 1962 to 1970 were “COMBAT” (1962-1967) – which  depicted the unrelentingly dangerous life of army infantrymen during the war, “TWELVE  O’CLOCK HIGH” (1964-1967) – which depicted the unrelentingly dangerous life of American  bomber crews during the war, and “Victory at Sea” – a 1950s documentary series, re-run  frequently in the 1960s, that depicted the unrelentingly dangerous life of sailors and merchant  men during the war. Hollywood even provided some comic relief about life during the war for  the 1960s viewing audience. One feature film was titled “What Did You Do During the War  Daddy?” (1966). On TV the comedy series “HOGAN’S HEROES” (1965-1971) and  “McHALE’S NAVY” (1962-1966) were equally popular and would have been watched by John  Brennan and his peers. One can count on the fact that Brennan’s classmates spent some of their day in the playground discussing “what-did-your-father-do-during-the-war?”. 

Brennan’s mother Dorothy was justly proud of her service during the war.13 John Brennan’s  father Owen had a different story. Owen Brennan was a blacksmith who emigrated from the  Republic of Ireland to the United States in 1948.14 The Republic of Ireland was neutral during  World War II. Ireland arrested and interred any combatant (U.S., British, German) who entered  their territory during the war. Owen Brennan did not serve the great cause of Defending  Democracy like the other fathers at the school.  

Owen Brennan did not arrive in America until after the war was won. Owen Brennan probably  felt blessed he didn’t have to fight for the enemy of Ireland - England. Owen may even have  communicated to his children how stupid it was for America to fight to save England. Given the  centuries of oppression the Irish suffered at the hands of the English this sentiment is very  understandable. But it was contrary to the prevailing narrative among American children at the  time. 

Children can be proud and very cruel. During his formative years, when the Immaculate Heart  of Mary students talked about what they saw on TV the night before, or held the schoolyard  what-did-your-dad-do-during-the-war talks, John Brennan couldn’t participate. Brennan could  not thump his chest with pride at his father’s wartime accomplishments – however imaginary the  accomplishments of his peers’ fathers were. Avoiding the topic and avoiding cruel comments by  his classmates, who puffed themselves up by putting others down, may have caused John  Brennan to develop a bit of shame about his father’s non-participation in the great crusade – World War II. Perhaps some misplaced shame about his ‘Da’ is why John Brennan hates The  Donald? 

Following graduation from Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Brennan attended St. Joseph of  the Palisades High School in West New York, NJ from 1970 to 197315- the absolute height of  the Vietnam War. St. Joseph of the Palisades was a small catholic high school with only a few  

13 DOROTHY BRENNAN Obituary (2017) - Hoboken, NJ - The Jersey Journal (legacy.com); DOROTHY BRENNAN Obituary (2017) - Hoboken, NJ - The Jersey Journal (legacy.com) 

14 John Brennan, son of Irish immigrants, now Obama's top gun; by Niall O'Dowd, IrishCentral.com; John Brennan, son of Irish immigrants,  now Obama's top gun | IrishCentral.com; retrieved 9/17/2023. 

15 Jackson, Herb (December 5, 2009). "North Bergen man is homeland security assistant for President Obama". The Bergen Record. 

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hundred students.16 There are important benefits to attending a small school where each student  can receive appropriate attention from his instructors. Brennan’s high school years also  coincided with the most turbulent years of the Vietnam war. The years of the greatest loss of  American lives in this ultimately futile military adventure. His high school years also saw the  greatest popular resistance to the military Draft which was sending Brennan’s peers to fight and  die in a faraway land.  

The prospect of finishing high school and being sent to fight in Vietnam must have affected  Brennan, as it did every other male teenager in America. If nothing else the “teenage wasteland”  of the Vietnam War, in the words of a popular anti-war tune, must have influenced our hero’s  psyche. Perhaps the growing opposition to the Vietnam War affirmed for the first time the  benefits of his father’s non-participation in World War II. It must have been a great relief for  Brennan when the military draft ended the same year he graduated high school. Without the  draft Brennan would not need to apply for a college deferment as others of his generation had. 

Following high school Brennan attended Fordham University in New York City. After his  freshman year at Fordham Brennan spent the summer of 1974 in Indonesia staying at the home  of a cousin who worked for USAID.17 USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development,  an adjunct office of the U.S. Department of State, is a well-known CIA front organization.  Coincidentally, USAID also employed President Barak Hussein Obama’s mother in Indonesia18 for a time […small world, huh?]. Bob Keane, a classmate [of John Brennan’s] from fourth grade  at Immaculate Heart of Mary School through Keane’s second year at Fordham, expressed the  possibility that Brennan was recruited by the CIA as early as his visit to Indonesia in 1974.19  

Two-years later in 1976, Brennan spent his Junior Year Abroad, studying Arabic at American  University in Cairo, Egypt.20 Brennan became a fluent Arabic speaker because of his time in  Cairo. Brennan graduated from Fordham University in 1977 with a B.A. in Political Science.21  Brennan’s graduate school studies indicate a continued interest in foreign affairs. John Brennan  completed his education at the University of Texas – Austin in 1980 with a Master of Art degree in Government, with a concentration in Middle East Studies.22 

I believe the reader needs to recall the situation in the United States in the post-Vietnam War  years when Brennen was in college. As those readers of a certain age will recall, from 1973 to  1974, the Saudi Arabia-lead Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), conducted  

16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph_of_the_Palisades_High_School; retrieved 9/17/2023 

17 Ibid. 

18https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham#:~:text=Stanley%20Ann%20Dunham%28November%2029%2C%20 1942%C2%A0%E2%80%93%20November%207%2C%201995%29,Obama%2C%20the%2044th%20president%2 0of%20the%20United%20States; retrieved 9/23/2023. “…To address the problem of poverty in rural villages,  [Stanley Ann Dunham] created microcredit programs while working as a consultant for the United States Agency  for International Development…” (USAID). 

19 Ibid. 

20 Jackson, Herb (December 5, 2009). "North Bergen man is homeland security assistant for President Obama". The  Bergen Record.  

21 Jackson, Herb (December 5, 2009). "North Bergen man is homeland security assistant for President Obama". The Bergen Record.  22 Ibid.

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an oil embargo against the United States. The oil embargo caused the price of oil to skyrocket  over 300 percent.23 The OPEC Oil Embargo of October 1973 was begun to punish the United  States for supporting Israel during Egypt and Syria’s surprise attack on Israel in the Yom Kippur  War.24  

Egypt and Syria lost the Yom Kippur War, with great loss of life and material, as a direct result  of United States’ support for Israel. US support saw the transfer of thousands of US armored  vehicles from NATO bases in Europe to Israel. US tanks from bases in Germany were flown by  transport aircraft to Israel fully armed and fueled. Israeli soldiers would board the tanks on the  runway and drive them directly into battle against overwhelming Egyptian forces. This  emergency resupply by the US is the only reason Israel won the Yom Kippur War – and Egypt’s  allies vowed to punish the US.  

The oil embargoes’ massive increase in oil prices caused the United States to initiate rationing of  gasoline for the first time since World War II and enforce significant reductions in the speed  limit.25 Gasoline rationing affected every person in America. Every driver in America had to  wait on blocks-long-lines every other day for months on end. John Brennan was a freshman at  Fordham University at this time and no doubt was personally affected by the oil embargo – as  were all Americans. What newly licensed car driver was not? If nothing else, Brennan would  have observed firsthand how political action in one country effects the life of a person in another.  And it was after this embargo by supporters of Egypt’s surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur  that Brennen spent a year abroad in the country that started the war – Egypt.  

Brennan spent the years 1978 to 1980 in Austin, Texas at the University of Texas. At UT  Brennan obtained his master’s in government with a concentration in Middle Eastern Studies.  For context, one must recall the Cold War situation between the United States and communist  Russia (the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – USSR), when our hero was a student at  University of Texas - Austin. It was the Soviets who armed both Egypt and Syria for the Yom  Kippur War with Israel. It was Soviet weaponry which was defeated by US weaponry in the  war. The Cold War began soon after World War II and consisted of various confrontations  between the U.S. and the USSR. Some of the confrontations we won (Berlin Airlift 1948-1949)  or ended in a draw (Korean War 1950-1953), but the USSR and the communist movement  generally won (East European dominance 1949, China 1949, Cuba 1959, Vietnam 1975). The  United States involvement in Afghanistan, beginning in 1980, was when Brennan decided to join  the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 

23 Arab oil embargo | History, Cause, Impact, & Definition | Britannica 

24 Ibid. 

25 Ibid.

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Chapter 2: Brennan’s career. 

The USSR invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 while Jimmy Carter was President. President  Carter boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980 to punish the Soviet Union – preventing  thousands of young American athletes from competing. President Carter’s National Security  Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski conceived of a plan to punish the Soviet Union for invading  Afghanistan – the US would train and arm “freedom fighters” in Afghanistan. The US training  of Afghan freedom fighters became the CIA’s new OPERATION CYCLONE.26 It was in this  cultural and political milieu of economic repression by foreign governments (OPEC embargo)  and invasion of Afghanistan by a generally successful Soviet Union when John Brennen decided  to join the CIA.  

Carter’s replacement, President Ronald Reagan, was staunchly opposed to communism. The  hallmark of Reagan’s two-term administration (1981 – 1989) was a series of efforts to defeat the  Soviet Union once and for all. Most notably among President Reagan’s efforts were a significant  build-up of the US military and the massive expansion of the covert war against the Soviet Union  in Afghanistan.27 As noted above, the covert war in Afghanistan was managed by the CIA under  the codename OPERATION CYCLONE.28  

During OPERATION CYCLONE hundreds of millions of dollars for training and weapons were  provided to anti-Soviet fighters recruited from all over the Muslim world - the Mujahedeen.29  The Mujahedeen were primarily trained in Pakistan by US and allied country intelligence  agencies (like Britain’s MI-6) and then sent into Afghanistan with CIA supplied weapons. One  can easily imagine how large an operation existed in Pakistan to support OPERATION  CYCLONE when one remembers that literally tens of thousands of civilian volunteers from  scores of Muslim nations had to be trained to be effective soldiers, armed, and then inserted into  Afghanistan from Pakistan over a 10-year period. The total number of Mujahedeen trained  under CIA funding totaled in the hundreds of thousands. 

One such mujahedeen who was recruited, trained, and armed by the CIA was a Saudi national  named Osama bin Laden.30 Bin Laden was attending university in 1979 when he was recruited  by the CIA to support the massive OPERATION CYCLONE in Pakistan.31 After participating  in OPERATION CYCLONE from 1980 to 1988, bin Laden founded Al-Qaeda in 1988.32 It was  bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda which launched numerous terror attacks against the United States that led  to US forces fighting in Afghanistan for over 20-years, from 2001 to 2022. Coincidentally,  

26 Operation Cyclone - Wikipedia; Tobin, Conor (April 2020). "The Myth of the "Afghan Trap":  Zbigniew Brzezinski and Afghanistan, 1978–1979". Diplomatic History. Oxford University Press. 27 Soviet–Afghan War - Wikipedia 

28 Operation Cyclone - Wikipedia; Coll, Steve (2004). Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet  Invasion to September 10, 2001. Penguin Group. pp. 46, 593. ISBN 9781594200076. cf. Brzezinski, Zbigniew (26 December 1979). "Reflections  on Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan" (PDF). 

29 Operation Cyclone - Wikipedia;  

30 Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia; Scheuer, Michael (7 February 2008). "Yemen still close to al-Qaeda 's heart". Asia Times Online. Archived from  the original on 2 July 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2011. 

31 Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia; Fisk, Robert (2005). The Great War for Civilisation. p. 4. 

32 Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia; United States v. Usama bin Laden et al., S (7) 98 Cr. 1023, Testimony of Jamal Ahmed Mohamed al-Fadl  (SDNY 6 February 2001).

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Brennan ended his tenure as CIA Director just 5-years prior to the ending of US military  operations in Afghanistan. Brennan’s entire career in the CIA was paid for by one or more wars  the U.S. either supported or fought in. Was it because Donald Trump didn’t start any new wars  while he was president that makes John Brennan hate him so? 

According to his White House biography, “…Brennan began his career as an intelligence officer  in 1980 with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations as a Career Trainee…”.  The same biography also reports that Brennan joined the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence in  1981.33 The Directorate of Intelligence (DI) is generally known to be the branch of the agency  that employs Intelligence Analysts (IA) as opposed to the Directorate of Operations (DO) which  employs operational Intelligence Officers (IO) – spies. However, the intelligence game is  famous for using misdirection to confuse their opposition. Brennan might possibly have been a  DO officer (a spy) undercover as a DI analyst, masquerading as a State Department employee, to  confuse any opposing counterintelligence agency. 

Think about it, when Brennan was assigned overseas as a DI “analyst”, the local  counterintelligence (CI) forces would perceive him as less of a ‘threat’ to their country because  he was just an analyst. As a lesser threat, the local CI forces would focus less resources on  determining what Brennan was actually doing in their country. By encouraging the local  counterintelligence service to focus their investigative efforts on someone other than Brennan,  Brennan would have greater freedom of operation in the field. This may possibly be what  happened during Brennan’s first overseas assignment in Saudi Arabia, but we will never know until his CIA records are opened. 

Brennan reportedly joined the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Directorate of Intelligence  (CIA/DI) as a lowly Intelligence Analyst during the height of the Cold War in 198034 or 1981.35  After a year or so at CIAHQ, Brennan served under Diplomatic Cover in the US Consulate in  Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 1982-1984.36 For the un-initiated in Spy tradecraft, Diplomatic  Cover is where an Intelligence Officer, or Analyst, is listed as a U.S. State Department (USDS)  employee with a State Department day job for the public (and the host-country  counterintelligence service) to see, when he is in fact working for the CIA. Diplomatic Cover  also provides diplomatic immunity from prosecution for any crimes committed by the CIA  employee during the overseas posting.  

As noted above, within two years of joining the CIA Brennan was assigned to the US Consulate  in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia under State Department cover as a Political Officer in 1982.37  Brennan’s White House biography mischaracterized the US offices in Jeddah as the US  Embassy.38 There is only one US Embassy per nation and the US Embassy is in Riyadh, S.A., 

33 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

34 https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/04/12/1469347/0/en/Former-CIA-Director-John-O-BRENNAN -Joins-SecureAuth-Core Security-Advisory-Board-to-Fortify-Gaps-in-Cybersecurity-Battle-Lines.html 

35 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

36 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

37 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

38 Ibid. “…After joining the Directorate of Intelligence in 1981, he served with the Department of State as  a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 1984…” 

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not Jeddah. This misrepresentation of the truth in Brennan’s White House biography is just one  example of a pattern of lying in official documents that is a common theme of John Brennan’s  government service. Lying liars lie. 

Lying in a White House biography is not a crime, but lying to Congress under oath is. The most  famous example of Brennan’s pattern of False Official Statements (violations of 18 U.S. Code  Section 1001) was his denial as Director CIA that the CIA illegally spied on U.S. Senate  investigators. The Senate investigators were looking into CIA torture of prisoners during the  Global War on Terror.39 More substantive examples of Brennan’s pattern of False Official  Statements will be described in greater detail later in our narrative. To bring our focus back on  his career timeline we note Brennan completed his undercover assignment at U.S. Consulate  Jeddah in 1984.40  

The reader’s attention is directed to the fact the early 1980s, when our hero joined the CIA, were  the beginning of the Reagan Administration. The main adversary of U.S. Foreign Policy during  this time was the Soviet Union. President Reagan focused his Administration’s foreign policy on  defeating the Soviet Union. President Reagan saw the best opportunity to seriously weaken the  Soviet system was via the CIA’s clandestine war in Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion. 

The Soviets, a communist regime, who were trying to impose their atheistic, materialistic philosophy on a staunchly Muslim population. Beyond the religious aspect of Afghani resistance to the Soviet invasion, the people of Afghanistan pride themselves on defeating every single  invader since Alexander the Great, 300-years before the birth of Christ, and 900-years before the  founding of Islam. Afghani anti-invader sentiment did not begin with the Soviet invasion – it is  a point of cultural pride. The Soviets ignored this defining trait of the Afghan people in 1979  and U.S. leaders ignored this defining Afghani trait from 2002 to 2022. 

The CIA clandestine war in Afghanistan, OPERATON CYCLONE, began under the  Administration of President James Carter in July 1979; six months prior to the Soviet invasion of  Afghanistan itself. The Carter Administration’s initial support of Afghani anti-communist  sentiment was in response to the takeover of the Afghani government by a domestic communist  regime in 1978. The 1978 regime’s violent oppression of religious opponents of the regime’s  changes to Afghani society caused violent unrest to grow throughout the country.  

As the new communist government’s oppression accelerated, causing even more popular  opposition to communist reforms, more moderate members of the communist government  revolted and assassinated their overzealous leader. The replacement dictator was unable to gain  effective control over the restive Afghani population (which had begun receiving some limited  funding from the CIA by this time). The Soviet Union sent in their own troops to secure  complete communist control in December 1979. It was against this backdrop that John Brennan  joined the Central Intelligence Agency. 

39 Associated Press, “CIA Director Reverses Himself on Senate Spying.”, by Kenneth Dilanianap, Intelligence  Writer, August 1, 2014, https://apnews.com/article/5ef40f60ff034239b192f9753ffef212; retrieved 9/23/2023 40 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN 

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The Carter Administration’s initial contribution to the Pakistan-backed Mujahadeen fighting the  Soviet-backed Afghan national government was a modest $695,000 in aid.41 Following the  Soviet invasion in December 1979 however, U.S. clandestine aid to the Mujahadeen increased  over 4,000-percent in 1980 to $30 million. The amount of aid rose significantly each year  thereafter; eventually reaching $630 million per year in 1987.42 43 44 A yearly breakdown of how  the clandestine spending increased over those seven years might appear is shown below; with  Brennan’s known CIA assignments noted in brackets: 

1980 $30 million [Brennan newly hired as a Career Trainee] 1981 $100 million [Assigned to Directorate of Intelligence] 1982 $200 million [Undercover at US Consulate Jeddah] 1983 $300 million [Undercover at US Consulate Jeddah] 1984 $400 million [Undercover at US Consulate Jeddah] 1985 $450 million [Assigned to NE/SA Division at CIAHQ] 1986 $550 million [Assigned to NE/SA Division at CIAHQ] 1987 $630 million [Assigned to NE/SA Division at CIAHQ] 1988 [$600 million-plus] [Assigned to NE/SA Division at CIAHQ] 1989 Soviet Union leaves Afghanistan [Assigned to NE/SA Division at CIAHQ] 

Each year showed a dramatic increase in funding for OPERATION CYCLONE. And John  Brennan spent his first 10-years in the CIA swimming in this clandestine-funding filled pool. As  the old saying goes, “money talks, b***$**t walks.” The effects of such dramatic annual  funding increases must have impressed Brennan. 

Brennan returned to CIA headquarters in 1984 where he was assigned to the DI’s Near Eastern  and South Asian Analysis (NE/SA) Division for the next 5-years (1984-1989) in a variety of  analytical assignments.45 The NE/SA Division was directly involved in running the CIA’s proxy  war in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is located in the NE/SA Division’s geographic area of  responsibility. Brennan remained in the NE/SA Division until 198946 when the Soviet Union  completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan. One can assume that Brennan was justly proud of  having participated in helping defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Many commentators  believe that the Soviet loss in Afghanistan eventually lead to the complete collapse of the Soviet  Union in 1990 and the end of the Cold War itself in 1991.  

41 Tobin, Conor (April 2020). "The Myth of the "Afghan Trap": Zbigniew Brzezinski and Afghanistan, 1978–1979".  Diplomatic History. Oxford University Press. 

42 Bergen, Peter, Holy War Inc. Free Press, (2001), p. 68 

43 Riedel, Bruce (2014). What We Won: America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979–1989. Brookings Institution  Press. pp. ix–xi, 21–22, 93, 98–99, 105. ISBN 978-0815725954. 

44 Coll, Steve (2004). Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet  Invasion to September 10, 2001. Penguin Group. pp. 46, 593. ISBN 9781594200076. cf. Brzezinski, Zbigniew (26  December 1979). "Reflections on Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan" 

45 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

46 Ibid.

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Significantly, it is documented that during Brennan’s last two years of his first assignment in NE/SA Division a large number of Arab, non-Afghani, Mujahadeen fighters were issued illegal  visas by the US Consulate in Jeddah (where Brennan previously served undercover) to enter the  US for military training.47 Author, and former State Department employee, J. Michael  Springmann was the Chief of the Visa Section, US Consulate Jeddah, from 1987 to 1989.48  Springmann claimed he supervised the issuance of illegal visas to a huge number of people he described as “Islamic mercenaries.”  

Springmann wrote about his experiences in his book, Visas for Al-Qaeda .49 Springmann  reported the visas were issued to facilitate CIA training of these Islamic mercenaries at CIA  locations in the United States.50 Brennan, as an intelligence analyst in the NE/SA Division from  1984 through 1989 (concurrent with Springmann’s tenure in Jeddah), must have been fully aware  of the large numbers of Arab Mujahadeen, also known as “Islamic Mercenaries”51 who passed  into the U.S. for secret training by the CIA. Afterall, analysts must “analyze” something and the  movement of vast numbers of violent, Islamic mercenaries being trained by the CIA to conduct  military operations in NE/SA Division’s area of responsibility would produce a great deal of data  to analyze.  

During Springmann’s 1987-1989 term at the US Consulate Jeddah, “…[he] was required as  chief visa officer in Saudi Arabia to issue what [he] regarded as illegal visas to large numbers of  U.S.-backed Islamic fundamentalists transiting through Jeddah from multiple Islamic nations so  they could visit the United States for secret purposes…” Those purposes, Springmann later  concluded, involved covert training at such locales as "The Farm," a CIA training facility in  Williamsburg, Virginia. The trainees, [Springmann] alleges, “…were vagabond Islamic  mercenaries, revolutionists and jihadists — an "Arab-Afghan Legion" — who could be  unleashed on America’s enemies…”52 

Issuing a large number of visas for an “Arab-Afghan Legion” of jihadists, must have presented a  managerial challenge for the CIA’s NE/SA Division. No bureaucrat at the NE/SA Division would want a few score, newly trained “Islamic mercenaries” going off the reservation and  setting up shop in some American inner-city neighborhood. After all, terrorizing the taxpaying  public who is picking up the tab for your clandestine war was not considered a viable business  model… yet. To prevent personnel problems the NE/SA Division would need to monitor and  track these “Islamic mercenaries” to ensure they left the U.S. when their training was through.  

47 https://www.justice-integrity.org/798-shocking-new-book-links-illicit-u-s-visas-to-terrorists current-wars; J. Michael Springmann, Visas for Al-Qaeda …CIA Handouts that Rocked the  World – An Insider’s View. 

48 J. Michael Springmann, www.michaelspringmann.com , Visas for Al-Qaeda : CIA Handouts That Rocked the  World: An Insider's View;  

49 Ibid. 

50 Ibid. 

51 J. Michael Springmann, www.michaelspringmann.com , Visas for Al-Qaeda : CIA Handouts That Rocked the  World: An Insider's View; 

52 Andrew Kreig, Justice Integrity Project, https://www.justice-integrity.org/798-shocking-new-book-links-illicit-u-s-visas-to-terrorists-current wars

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As the reader may recall, the mid-1980s was the infancy of the computer age. Microsoft  Corporation only released the first version of its Excell relational database in 1985.53 Databases  for tracking various types of inventories were all the rage in organizations large and small. A  tracking database would be just the thing to monitor the “inventory” of which CIA-approved  “Islamic mercenaries”, oops, I meant to say, “Mujahadeen freedom fighters” had entered the  U.S. for training, and which had departed. If only there were a government contractor who  would invent the needed database…  

With the withdrawal of Soviet forces in late 1989, the Mujahadeen were no longer needed in  Afghanistan. Suddenly, tens of thousands of Islamic mercenaries from countries outside  Afghanistan became unemployed in Afghanistan. Releasing masses of well-armed mercenaries from the only job they knew, hundreds of miles from their homes, is a recipe for disaster. Where  will they go? What will they do with their training and weapons, but no enemy to fight?  Someone needed to keep an eye on these Islamic mercenaries because they might cause big  problems. 

In 1990, some enterprising persons claiming to work for the State Department formed a new  company – The Analysis Corporation (TAC). This new company would build and maintain just  the sort of database the US Government needed to track the tens of thousands of newly  unemployed Islamic mercenaries. The classified nature of the database TAC assembled, bearing  the CIA codename TIPOFF,54 precluded public knowledge of the existence of TAC initially.  TAC began its life as a classified contractor to the CIA and Department of State.  

How fortuitous that just as the “Islamic mercenaries” lost their ‘raison d’etre’ with the  withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan, a new, classified, government contractor provided  the new TIPOFF database to track them. And just as fortuitously, Brennan transferred from the  NE/SA Division to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center (CTC) in 1990 – the very year the  TIPOFF database went online.55 In a third instance of “fortuitousness” Brennan was promoted to  be the head of terrorism analysis in the CTC where they were tracking all these new, freelance  Islamic mercenaries using TAC’s TIPOFF database.56  

On its face, Brennan’s move to be the head of terrorism analysis in the Counterterrorism Center  (CTC) was logical. After all, Brennan had accumulated 5-years’ experience in tracking the  comings and goings of “Islamic mercenaries” as an intelligence analyst in the NE/SA Division.  Who better than Brennan would know the great benefits of using The Analysis Corporation’s  TIPOFF database. As his White House biography notes Brennan was “…was in charge of  terrorism analysis in the DCI's Counterterrorist Center between 1990 and 1992, including  during Desert Shield and Desert Storm…”57 As the head of terrorism analysis Brennan could  

53 Microsoft Excel | Description & History | Britannica; https://www.britannica.com/technology/Microsoft-Excel 54 “[TAC] said it “designed and maintained” the State Department’s TIPOFF list, an early version of the [terrorist  watch] list…”; https://engineeringevil.com/2013/02/10/intel-firm-paid-cia-nominee-well-as-he-left-for white-house/  

55 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN 

56 Ibid. 

57 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN

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show his new playmates at the Counterterrorism Center (CTC) just how indispensable TIPOFF was for tracking “Islamic mercenaries” as they branched out into new terror activities worldwide.  

There is an additional point of context I would like the reader to grasp: The Soviets’ ultimately  failed invasion of Afghanistan, with their evacuation in 1989, lead directly to the collapse of the  entire USSR in 1990 and its dissolution in 1991. The collapse of the Soviet Union basically  ended the Cold War. The United States’ only near peer enemy was completely defeated – just as  we completely defeated Japan in World War II. The former Soviet Union, the successor to the  Russian Empire, dissolved into 13 new countries with Russia as the largest. When America  breaks an enemy America breaks her for good! 

The defeat of the Soviet Union, just as with the defeat of Japan, meant that the enormous military  build-up during those respective wars [Cold War & WW II] was no longer needed. The entire  infrastructure of the US Military and US Intelligence had lost their ‘raison d’etre’ [reason for  being] at just the same time the Mujahadeen had lost theirs. President George H. W. Bush  (1990-1994) famously described the end of the Cold War as a chance to recoup a “peace  dividend” for the economy of the United States.58  

The CIA had also lost its number one adversary when the USSR dissolved. When the Soviet  Union fell the CIA lost their claim to billions of dollars of government funding. To justify its  continued operation, the CIA had to find another reason to exist – another boogey-man. The  

CIA was begun because of the initial US intelligence failure that allowed the surprise attack on  Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor forced  America to enter the Second World War which cost the lives of over 350,000 American  servicemen. The American people didn’t want another surprise attack to drag us into a war of  annihilation.  

To ensure the U.S. never suffered another Pearl Harbor-type sneak attack, Congress passed the  National Defense Act of 1947 – authorizing the CIA.59 The CIA was founded to analyze  intelligence gathered around the world, in a central location, to prevent America from being  surprised again. Without an enemy [the USSR] who could launch a sneak attack on the United  States the American people might begin to question why the Central Intelligence Agency should  continue to exist? No enemy meant no job for the CIA! In 1991, when Brennan was head of  terrorism analysis, the CIA needed a new boogey-man. Maybe the development of a new  terrorism boogey-man, uh…I mean existential threat is related to why John Brennan hates The  Donald so? 

At the very time the continued existence of the CIA as an entity was beginning to be debated  (1990), Brennan was assigned to be the head of terrorism analysis of the Counterterrorism  Center (CTC) [1990 to 1992].60 As noted earlier, Brennan’s term as head of terrorism analysis in  the CTC coincides exactly with CTC’s increased reliance on the services of The Analysis  

58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dividend; retrieved 9/20/2023 

59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency; retrieved 9/20/2023 60 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN

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Corporation (TAC). “...TAC has been working on projects in the counterterrorism and national  security realm by supporting national watchlisting activities as well as other counterterrorism  requirements.61“ “…[TAC] said it “designed and maintained” the State Department’s TIPOFF  list, an early version of the [terrorist watch] list…”62 Designing and maintaining a database is  how one establishes ownership of that database even if the data in the database is owned by the  government. Owning the database makes the owner of the database very valuable to the people  who need the contents of said database; you become indispensable. 

Ownership of the TIPOFF database made The Analysis Corporation indispensable to U.S.  efforts to monitor and track individual terrorists as they moved around the world. There is no  debate that Brennan, by virtue of his assignment as the head of terrorism analysis in the CIA’s  Counterterrorism Center (CTC), must have been fully aware of the indispensable value of the  company that provided this important database to the CIA – The Analysis Corporation (TAC).  

TAC further increased its value to U.S. Intelligence during Brennan’s leadership of CIA  terrorism analysis by developing proprietary software programs, such as FUZZY FINDER.  FUZZY FINDER “...has been continuously operational within the government [since 1990] and  has been a very effective tool for finding the names of suspected or known terrorists in various  databases...”63 FUZZY FINDER was an extremely significant tool in tracking terrorists’  movements around the world. More detail on the indispensable nature of The Analysis  Corporation and its FUZZY FINDER software is provided in “The Analysis Corporation” chapter below. 

Brennan’s time in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center also coincided with Saddam Hussein’s  invasion of Kuwait and the resultant Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm.64 As the reader  will recall, Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm was the war by U.S. and Coalition forces  

which expelled Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991. The U.S. effort employed  approximately 500,000 American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in America’s largest  single military operation since World War II. The startling success of the 100-hour operation  against the fourth largest army in the world showed the complete dominance of the U.S.  Air/Land military doctrine. The complete success of US Arms against the forces of Iraq proved  to the world America had no reason to fear any nation-state adversary… but what about a non state terror organization? 

An unintended consequence of Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm was the development of a  new terrorist organization, Al-Qaeda. Operation Desert Shield infuriated Islamic  fundamentalists because the Saudi administered Holy-Land-of-the-Two-Mosques, was used to  base non-believer soldiers from America. The success of Operation Desert Storm also increased  the reliance of Saudi Aradia on America for its defense and economic development. One such  

61 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_Corporation; copied on 6/15/2019 

62 https://engineeringevil.com/2013/02/10/intel-firm-paid-cia-nominee-well-as-he-left-for-white-house/ 63 https://www.chron.com/news/article/PRN-The-Analysis-Corporation-and-Infoglide-1859462.php 64 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN

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Islamic fundamentalist, Osama bin Laden, used the basing of American troops in Saudi Arabia  during Operation Desert Storm as an excuse to wage Jihad against the United States.65  As the reader is aware, Osama bin Laden, the son of a wealthy Saudi family and an 8-year  veteran of the CIA’s clandestine war in Afghanistan, founded Al-Qaeda when the Soviets left  Afghanistan. The fortuitous development of this new, non-state, terror threat to the United  States, oddly enough by a former client of the CIA (bin Laden), occurred while John Brennan  was assigned as the head of terrorism analysis in the Counterterrorism Center at CIAHQ. It is  anyone’s guess if the fortuitousness of the development of this new international threat to the  United States, which needed to be monitored by the CIA, is why John Brennan hates The Donald  so. 

Shortly after Brennan moved from his CTC position he moved back to NE/SA Division in a  management position in 1992,66 bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda launched its first attack in December  1992 against U.S. personnel with the bombing of the Gold Mohur Hotel in Aden, Yemen.67  

Brennan’s management tour with NE/SA Division coincided with increasingly violent Islamic  terrorism worldwide – “coincidentally” in the NE/SA Division’s area of responsibility. An Al Qaeda-linked terror cell even attempted to knock down New York City’s World Trade Center  

with a car bomb just two months later in February 1993.68 In Israel, a Jewish settler murdered 39  and wounded 125 Muslims at the Tomb of the Patriarch in February 1994. Hezbollah retaliated for this attack five months later by bombing a Jewish community center in Argentina in July;  killing 85 and wounding hundreds more. Amidst all this turmoil, Brennan completed his  management tour in NE/SA Division.69 

For the next two years (1994 & 1995), BRENNAN was assigned as the CIA’s Daily Intelligence  Briefer to then President Bill Clinton.70 The Daily Intelligence Briefer presents the contents of  the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) to the most exclusive audience in the world – the President of  the United States of America.71 72 The PDB contains the highest level of intelligence on the  president’s key national security issues and concerns. The PDB is the primary vehicle for summarizing day-to-day sensitive intelligence and analysis, as well as late breaking reports, for the White House.73 He-who-controls-what-the-audience-thinks-about controls-what-the-audience-members-think. 

The number of significant terrorist incidents increased greatly from 1994 (5 incidents) to 1995  (17 incidents) while Brennan held the position of Daily Intelligence Briefer to President  

65 https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/osama-bin-laden 

66 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

67 Director National Intelligence Terrorist Incident Timeline, Historic Timeline | National Counterterrorism Center  (dni.gov), https://www.dni.gov/nctc/timeline.html#1990. 

68 Ibid. 

69 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

70 Ibid. 

71 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

72 “An interview with TTIC Director John Brennan”; Studies In Intelligence; Vol 48, No. 4, with Paul Johnson, Editor Studies in  Intelligence, interview date July 21, 2004; https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 73 President's Daily Brief | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov), https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/presidents-daily brief

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Clinton.74 An increased number of terrorist incidents is bad for society; conversely it meant John  Brennan would have increased facetime with the sitting President of the United States. “He who-controls-what-the-President-thinks-about-controls-what-the-President-thinks.” Brennan’s increased facetime with the President would enable Brennan to emphasize the  importance of the CIA’s continued existence at the very time President Clinton was considering  how to spend the “Peace Dividend” from the end of the Cold War. More facetime, more  influence. More influence means more money for the Briefer’s agency – the CIA. What is bad  for you and me is not necessarily bad for those who, like Brennan, influence the levers of  power…  

Following the completion of his stint as the Daily Intelligence Briefer to President Clinton in  1995 Brennan was invited to become the Executive Assistant (EA) to then Deputy Director of  Central Intelligence (D/DCI) George Tenet.75 Coincidentally, during Brennan’s Executive  Assistant tour with Tenet a new intelligence center was established at CIAHQ – the Bin Laden  Issue Station, codenamed ALEC Station.76 ALEC Station's mission was "…to track [bin Laden],  collect 

intelligence on him, run operations against him, disrupt his finances, and warn policymakers  about his activities and intentions…".77 ALEC Station certainly treated bin Laden as America’s  next existential threat boogey-man – just in time to save the CIA’s budget… how… fortuitous. 

As the Executive Assistant to D/DCI Tenet, it is very likely that Brennan had a hand in setting up  the initial operation of ALEC Station; especially given Brennan’s experience with the  Clandestine War in Afghanistan, his tour as head of terrorism analysis in the CTC, and his  management experience in the NE/SA Division. After all, even a Counterterrorism Center with  Brennan as head of terrorism analysis couldn’t possibly have missed bin Laden’s Fatwa’s  declaring Jihad (holy war) against the United States.  

Brennan’s tour as EA to D/DCI Tenet was relatively short at only about one-year’s length and  ended in 1996.78 One can assume that Brennan and George Tenet got to know each other well with Brennan working directly with Tenet each day. This close association between the two  apparently left a favorable impression on Tenet who assumed duties as the Director CIA in  December 1996.79  

In 1996, and possibly as a reward from Tenet, Brennan was promoted from his Executive  Assistant position to be the CIA Chief of Station (COS) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the next 3- years.80 During Brennan’s time as Chief of Station Riyadh, Osama bin Laden signed and issued  his first Fatwa, the "Declaration of Jihad Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two  

74 Historic Timeline | National Counterterrorism Center (dni.gov),  

https://www.dni.gov/nctc/timeline.html#1990 

75 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

76 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_Issue_Station, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_Issue_Station, retrieved 11/20/2019 77 Director George Tenet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_Issue_Station, retrieved 11/20/2019 

78 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

79 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tenet; retrieved 9/23/2023 

80 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN 

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Holy Mosques” on August 23, 199681 Bin Laden’s Fatwa called for Holy War against the  United States in Saudi Arabia at the very time Brennan was the senior US Intelligence  representative in that county. As the CIA Chief of Station in Saudia Arabia, the threat of a holy  war against the host government, and our own country, should have been a cause of concern for  Brennan.  

During Brennan’s time in the Saudi capital, he developed close relationships with both the Saudi  Crown Prince, Al-Waleed bin Talal, and the Head of Saudi Intelligence, Prince Turki bin Faisal  bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Prince Abdulaziz led Saudi Intelligence for over 20-years, from the  beginning of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (1979) to just days prior to Al-Qaeda ’s  September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.82 Prince Abdulaziz not only directed Saudi  Intelligence support of the CIA’s covert war against the USSR in Afghanistan for 10-years, but  Prince Abdulaziz was also a Georgetown classmate of President Bill Clinton, and attended  Cambridge University in England when President Clinton attended Oxford.83 84 Surely,  Brennan’s prior task of briefing President Clinton (and controlling-what-the-President-thought about-by-emphasizing-the-increasing-Islamist-terror-problem) came up in his discussions with  President Clinton’s former classmate – Prince Abdulaziz. 

According to reliable sources, it was during his 1996-1999 tour as CIA Chief of Station in  Riyadh that Brennan converted to Islam.85 Religious conversion is a significant development in  anyone’s life. John Brennan’s conversion to Islam while CIA Chief of Station in Saudi Arabia,  while conducting numerous meetings with Saudi government officials even more so.86 It goes  without saying a religious conversion is a significant event in any person’s life. Religious  conversion is not like deciding you prefer Lemon Marange to Boston Cream pie. A religious  conversion effects one’s view of every aspect of one’s life – physical, emotional, spiritual, and a  religious conversion affects how one views the relative value of each relationship in one’s life. I  do not imply that Brennan’s loyalty to his family, employer, or country changed for the worse in  any way due to his conversion. I have no way of knowing how his conversion changed  Brennan’s views on the relative value of anything; except that it must have done so, or it was not  a conversion. It would be naive to believe such a profound development in a person’s life such  as a religious conversion should be ignored when considering why John Brennan hates The  Donald so… 

According to former FBI Special Agent John Guandolo “… When Mr. Brennan was serving as  the Chief of Station for the CIA in Saudi Arabia – the U.S. representative to the Saudi  government for Intelligence matters – he befriended and was befriended by Saudi government  officials [the Crown Prince], including Saudi intelligence officers [the Head of Saudi  Intelligence]. This was a recruitment effort on behalf of Saudi intelligence – which is a very  aggressive intel service. They go after all U.S. government officials at one point or another in  

81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fataw%C4%81_of_Osama_bin_Laden 

82 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turki_bin_Faisal_Al_Saud, retrieved 6/11/20 

83 https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/gulf/turki-bin-faisal.htm 

84 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton#Oxford 

85 https://www.acunewsdaily.com/2017/06/29/cia-confirms-john-BRENNAN -converted-to-islam/ 

86 John Guandolo, ex-FBI Special Agent, https://www.understandingthethreat.com/the-totality-of-the-threat-john brennan-and-the-evidence/

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Saudi. I have been to Saudi Arabia (both as a Marine and FBI agent) and worked cases with  and involving Saudi intelligence. Contacts of mine who are still in the active service of the U.S.  government were present in Saudi Arabia when Mr. Brennan served there and have direct  knowledge of his conversion to Islam. These individuals are well-regarded in their agencies and  have impeccable integrity. Please understand they are in a tough spot and will not come  forward to speak publicly on this. Additionally, any more specific information about this will  risk their anonymity as there are few folks who have direct knowledge of these matters. To  highlight the hostile intelligence operations against U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Brennan  is only one of several CIA Chiefs of Station who converted to Islam while serving in their official  capacity there…” John Guandolo, Understanding the Threat.87 

During Brennan’s Chief of Station tour in Riyadh, Al-Qaeda expanded its Jihad – its holy war - against the United States. Al-Qaeda ’s leader, Osama bin Laden, issued his first Fatwa against  the U.S. early in Brennan’s Chief of Station tour in August 1996. Later in Brennan’s same Chief  of Station tour, Osama bin Laden and 4 other Islamist groups - the “World Islamic Front for  Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders” issued a second Fatwa against the United States on February  23, 1998. This second Fatwa complained “…of American military presence in the Arabian  Peninsula, the blockade of Iraq, and American support for Israel. [The Fatwa] purports to  provide religious authorization for indiscriminate killing of Americans and Jews everywhere….”88 On August 8, 1998, Al-Qaeda put the second Fatwa into devastating effect  with simultaneous truck bomb attacks on two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.89  

The embassy bombings caused a horrific number of casualties among embassy personnel and  innocent civilians. Since U.S. embassies are sovereign US territory the lead agency for the  investigation was the FBI. The FBI investigation obtained very important results. In August  1998 FBI investigators interrogated Al-Qaeda operatives involved in the attacks and determined the embassy bombers used a single contact phone number for coordination – a landline in  Yemen. The FBI found many Al-Qaeda operatives used this single, land-line phone in Yemen to  communicate with various other Al-Qaeda operatives around the world. This telephone number  came to be called “the Hada phone”.90  

A standard investigative technique of law enforcement agencies everywhere is to request the toll  records for any phone used for criminal communication. Toll records are what the telephone  company uses to calculate the bill a customer must pay for the use of their telephone. Examples  of toll records the public usually sees only list calls made from their own telephone to other  phones – their phone bill. However, the phone company can also provide a record of the  numbers of any phone used to call the target phone as well. In effect, one can obtain a record of  the date, time, and duration of every incoming, and outgoing, call for a particular phone. In a  massive investigation like the Kenya-Tanzania bombings one can assume the FBI requested a  record of all incoming and outgoing calls for the “Hada phone.” 

87 https://www.understandingthethreat.com/the-totality-of-the-threat-john-brennan-and-the-evidence/ 88 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fataw%C4%81_of_Osama_bin_Laden#1998_fatw%C4%81 

89 http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/osama.timeline/index.html 

90 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker Magazine, “The Agent, Did the CIA stop an FBI detective from preventing 9/11?”, July 3, 2006,  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent

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The FBI’s toll record request and subsequent data analysis was extremely successful.91 The  investigation found that not only did the Kenya-Tanzania Embassy bombers use the Hada phone to coordinate their strike, but Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda organization also used the Hada  phone for international communication and planning with many other Al-Qaeda operatives worldwide.92 The Hada phone was a major communication hub of the entire Al-Qaeda  organization! FBI analysis of all [prior] calls to and from this number (i.e. the Hada phone Toll  Records) allowed the FBI to establish a worldwide order-of-battle for Al-Qaeda.93 The FBI was  able to determine the phone numbers of many Al-Qaeda operatives around the world!  Identifying the phones of previously unidentified terrorists worldwide would allow targeting of  their phones, all their computer devices, email, social media, their homes and offices, mail  correspondence, etc. This could have been a major counterterrorism ‘coup’ for the FBI.  Knowing whose phone calls to “tap” would enable the NSA to collect massive amounts of  operational intelligence which could be used to thwart numerous future terror attacks.  Information like this could be used to completely defeat Al-Qaeda! And all this information was  available three years prior to Al-Qaeda ’s biggest attack of all, hijacking airplanes on September  11, 2001. Monitoring the Hada Phone would prevent the death of almost 3,000 Americans on  that day!  

Oh, wait... the CIA needed a foreign threat to justify its continued existence… If they couldn’t  have a state-actor threat (the Soviet Union), the CIA would have to settle for a non-state actor  threat - Al-Qaeda. If we wiped out Al-Qaeda, America would no longer need the CIA… 

The FBI only has legal jurisdiction within the borders of the United States (embassies being U.S.  territory…). The CIA has jurisdiction for intelligence collection and operations outside U.S.  territory. The FBI could not direct the NSA to “tap” any overseas phone numbers identified  from the Hada phone to stop future Al-Qaeda attacks – that was up to the CIA. The CIA has  jurisdiction outside the U.S. Once the importance of the Hada phone was identified by the FBI,  the CIA assumed control of the intelligence collection for the Hada phone going forward.94 Any  intelligence the NSA developed from the Hada phone toll records had to be sent to the CIA, not  the FBI. The FBI was left in the dark about any future intelligence collection gleaned from the  Hada phone.  

As an indication of just how jealously the CIA guarded the Hada phone information we need  only look at claims made by the FBI and the CIA. We know the FBI used the Hada phone  records to describe Al-Qaeda ’s order-of-battle in 1998,95 but the CIA’s anti-bin Laden ALEC  Station claimed to have identified Al-Qaeda ’s order-of-battle in 1999.96 Could the CIA’s “copy paste” of the FBI’s order-of-battle discovery and their false claim a year later be the reason why  John Brennan hates The Donald so? 

91 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker Magazine, “The Agent, Did the CIA stop an FBI detective from preventing 9/11?”, July 3, 2006,  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent. 

92 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker Magazine, “The Agent, Did the CIA stop an FBI detective from preventing 9/11?”, July 3, 2006,  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent. 

93 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

94 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

95 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

96 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_Issue_Station, retrieved 11/20/2019

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Let’s get back to our hero’s career… 

Upon completion of his CIA Chief of Station tour in Riyadh, Brennan returned to CIAHQ and  served as Chief of Staff to now Director CIA George Tenet from 1999 to 2001.97 Chief of Staff  is a big job, and it stands to reason that Brennan would have been privy to exactly the same  information as Director Tenet. Awareness that Brennan basically knew everything Director  Tenet knew at the CIA is extremely important. Brennan was Director Tenet’s Chief of Staff  during two very significant terrorist events – Al-Qaeda ’s October 12, 2000 bombing of the USS  Cole (DDG-67) in Yemen, and Al-Qaeda ’s airplane attacks on the World Trade Center and  Washington, DC on September 11, 2001. Various Congressional and Intelligence Community  investigations of these two events revealed startling levels of CIA involvement in both attacks.  Brennan would have been fully aware of this CIA involvement. In fact, Brennan’s future multi million-dollar payout depended on it. 

The USS Cole (DDG-67) attack: 

The USS Cole (DDG-67) was refueling at anchor in the harbor of Aden, Yemen on October 12,  2000 when two al-Qaeda terrorists came alongside in an inflatable Zodiac-type speedboat. The  speedboat contained an improvised explosive device (IED) weighing about 1,000-lbs. The two  Al Qaeda operatives saluted the crew members watching and that blew a 40-foot-wide hole in  the Cole’s port side, amidships, killing 17 Sailors.98 The immediate reaction of the United States  was to dispatch an FBI team to investigate this attack on U.S. territory – a U.S. warship. The  immediate reaction of the Yemeni Government to this attack on an American Destroyer in their  waters was to “arrest the usual suspects” in their homeland.99  

One of the people scooped up in this Yemeni dragnet went on to “coincidentally” become a key  figure in multiple Al Qaeda terrorist attacks against the United States from September 11, 2001, through the Boston Marathon Bombing in April 2013. The public did not learn the identity of  the individual scooped up in November 2000, or how important he was to CIA Director George  Tenet, until over 20 years later in March of 2021.100 We only learned of this individual’s  importance to the CIA because of the Yemeni Civil War. In 2021, when Houthi Rebels raided  the Yemeni Security Service’s headquarters, they made off with a recording of a telephone call  between Yemen’s President Saleh and Director George Tenet that took place in January  2000.101 The key individual, the subject of the phone call, was Anwar Al-Awlaki; also known as,  Anwar Al-Aulaqi, or Anwar Al-Aulaki, a Yemeni-American who was born in Arizona. See Chapter  8 below. 

At this juncture in our story, the reader is asked to focus on the minutiae of what takes place in  the background of a telephone call between a CIA Director and a foreign Head of State. Calls of  

97 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

98 Cole (DDG-67) (navy.mil); https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/modern-ships/uss-cole.html; retrieved 11/20/2023 99 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

100 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021 101 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021.

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that importance are not done one-on-one, without an audience. The record of the call itself  proves this by documenting some of the people who participated on the Yemeni President’s  side of the call – there was at least one interpreter and a Major General from the State Security  Service in attendance.102 Without doubt the CIA Director’s Chief of Staff, John Brennan, would  participate in the same call as well, if only as a passive observer. Brennan’s language skills with  Arabic would also be of great value to the call’s principal participant, call Director Tenet.  

The importance of this one phone call would be heightened because the call related to the  bombing of a U.S. warship in Yemeni waters, the death and injury of numerous Sailors, and the  fact the FBI had a team of investigators in Yemen investigating the blast. Logic alone indicates  Brennan would have participated in the call. Therefore, John Brennan must have also been  aware that Anwar Al-Awlaki was a recruited CIA asset from sometime prior to the call in  January 2000. Anything that Anwar Al-Awlaki was involved in after his recruitment by the CIA  would have been known by the CIA. At the very least the CIA would have been trying to  monitor their asset, Anwar Al-Awlaki, through physical and electronic surveillance. 

The September 11, 2001 attacks. 

The second major event to take place while Brennan was Chief of Staff of the CIA was 9/11 – the worst attack on the United States since Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.  The reader’s attention is recalled to the “Hada phone” identified earlier in the US Embassy  bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. In [December] 1999, NSA eavesdropping on the Hada phone  [a SIGINT marker] discovered Al-Qaeda operatives were planning to attend an operational  planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur.103 The NSA learned that one of the attendees was Khaled  al-Mihdhar, and another had the first name of Nawaf.104 Nawaf was later identified as Nawaf  Al-Hazmi who would go on to hijack the plane that hit the Pentagon. 

The NSA provided the information to the CIA as the CIA claimed control over all Hada phone intelligence due to the phone’s location in Yemen. The CIA did not pass the information about  this planning meeting to the FBI, but the CIA checked on Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi with Saudi  Arabian Intelligence. Saudi intelligence confirmed Khaled Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi  were Saudi nationals, and both were members of Al-Qaeda.105  

The US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was asked about Khaled Al-Mihdhar’s visa status in  conjunction with an ongoing urgent terrorist intelligence investigation. The US Consulate Jeddah  confirmed Al-Mihdhar had a valid U.S. visa.106 As noted above, the CIA never shared this  information with the FBI, nor entered Al-Mihdhar’s name in TIPOFF, the terrorist watchlist 

102 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021 103 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

104 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

105 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

106 https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/archive/hearing7/9-11Commission_Hearing_2004-01-26.htm

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maintained by The Analysis Corporation. One must wonder why the CIA’s ALEC Station  neglected to perform these two essential tasks during Brennan’s time as CIA Chief of Staff. 

In December 1999, using the travel information identified via the Hada phone, the CIA broke  into the hotel room of Khaled Al-Mihdhar in Dubai. Al-Mihdhar was passing through Dubai  enroute to the Al-Qaeda planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur.107 During the break-in the CIA  

photographed Al-Mihdhar’s passport and his valid U.S. visa. This information was sent to the  CIA Alec Station, the CIA bin Laden tracking unit.108 This information was not provided to the  FBI or the State Department, as a result, Al-Mihdhar was not placed on the TIPOFF list to  prevent him from entering our country.109 Without doubt the CIA intentionally provided aid to  Al-Mihdhar to circumvent U.S. terrorist watch list protections – they intentionally “provided aid”  to an enemy of the United States. That is the definition of treason under our Constitution.  

On Jan 5, 2000 Al-Qaeda held their planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This  meeting was attended by Khaled Al-Mihdhar, Nawaf Al-Hazmi, and a jihadi named Khallad,  among others. Malaysian Special Branch authorities provided surveillance of the meeting in  Kuala Lumpur at the CIA’s request. The Al-Qaeda meeting took place in a condominium owned  by a Malaysian businessman with ties to Al-Qaeda .110 

Directly in front of the condo in Kuala Lumpur, where Al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks, was a  pay phone that Khaled Al-Mihdhar used to contact Fahd Al-Quso. Al-Quso was involved in the  USS Cole Bombing in Yemen and interviewed by FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan. Although the  

CIA later denied that it knew anything about this pay phone across the street from the meeting  site, the number of this phone was recorded in the Malaysian Special Branch’s surveillance log,  which was given to the agency.111 This author is not aware of any public information regarding  the NSA’s SIGINT collection from the payphone across the street in Malaysia.  

FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan sent a Letterhead Memorandum (LHM) from the Director FBI to  CIA Director George Tenet in April 2001 requesting any information the CIA had on this very  phone number across the street from the Kuala Lumpur meeting. The CIA responded to Agent  Soufan’s LHM with an official LHM from Director CIA which stated, falsely, that the CIA had  

no information in regard to this telephone number.112 This LHM was a false Official Statement,  a violation of 18 USC 1001 – a felony violation. 

LHM’s are official requests by the Director of the FBI, then Robert Mueller, to the Director of  the CIA, then George Tenet. The response to an LHM is a LHM from the Director of the agency  that was asked for information – in this case the CIA. It is an established fact the CIA was  provided the number of the pay phone in front of the residence in Kuala Lumpur, where Al Qaeda planned the September 2011 World Trade Center attacks, by Malaysian Special  

107 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

108 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

109 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

110 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

111 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

112 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent

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Branch.113 The official CIA response was a false official statement114– their LHM response to  the FBI said they didn’t have the requested information when they did. Was John Brennan, as  the Chief of Staff to the CIA Director, involved in writing or approving the LHM response to the  FBI? Is this False Official Statement (18 USC 1001) the reason why John Brennan hates The  Donald so? 

Following the Kuala Lumpur meeting the various Al-Qaeda terrorists travelled to their appointed  places to conduct mayhem. On January 8, 2000 Malay Special Branch notified the CIA that Al Mihdhar, Al-Hazmi, and Khallad were traveling to Bangkok together.115 Shortly thereafter, on  January 15, 2000, both Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar arrived in the United States using valid US  visas.116 Two FBI Supervisory Special Agents (SSAs), Mark Rossini117 and Doug Miller118 were  detailees from the FBI serving in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center when Al-Hazmi and Al Mihdhar arrived in the U.S. Rossini and Miller learned of the arrival of Al-Hazmi and Al Mihdhar due to their attendance in the CIA Counterterrorism Center. FBI/SSAs Rossini and  Miller each, separately, requested permission of their CIA Supervisor to notify the FBI that Al Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar had valid US Visas and were in the United States. Both FBI SSAs were  prevented from informing the FBI of the entry of these two 9/11 hijackers into the United States  by their CIA CTC Supervisor - Ms. Michael Anne Casey. CIA Supervisor Casey forbid Rossini  and Miller of informing FBIHQ, either verbally or in writing, of Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar’s  entry into the United States. Casey ordered them to not share the information with the FBI.119 120  

The CIA facilitated the terrorists’ entry into the US and prevented the FBI from investigating  those terrorists while they were in the US. Facilitating entry into the country can also be  described as “providing aid” and preventing an investigation can be described as “providing…  comfort to the enemy” – the definition of Treason found in the U.S. Constitution. Committing  treason might be a reason for John Brennan to hate The Donald so? 

When Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar arrived in the country they knew no one and spoke little  English. Omar Al-Bayoumi [a suspected Saudi Arabian Intelligence Officer]121 met with Khalid  Al-Mindhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi in Los Angeles and provided them substantial assistance.122  Al-Bayoumi met with Al-Mindhar and Al-Hazmi in a restaurant after Al-Bayoumi met with an  individual at the Saudi consulate and there are indications…that Al-Bayoumi’s encounter with  

113 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

114 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

115 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

116 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent 

117 U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, A Review of FBI’s Handling of Intelligence Information  Related to the September 11 Attacks (November 2004), pages 233-357. 

118 Ibid. 

119 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rossini 

120https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky#Blocking_intelligence_sharing_before_September_11,_2001 121 Classified Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001; Report of  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence & House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, December 2002, Page 7. 122 Classified Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001; Report of  Senate Select Committer on Intelligence & House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, December 2002, Page 7.

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Al-Mindhar and Al-Hazmi may not have been accidental.123 The “chance” encounter occurred  in January 2000, shortly after Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi arrived in the US.  

Here is how the “chance” encounter between the two 9/11 hijackers and Al-Bayoumi was  described by a witness under oath. Al-Bayoumi invited an American convert [to Islam] he  befriended, Cayson bin Don, to join him on a trip to Los Angeles, CA.124 Al-Bayoumi said he  had a series of minor errands to perform there, the details of which seemed to shift with each  telling.125 At least one person later told the FBI that Al-Bayoumi had said he was going to Los  Angeles to pick up some visitors.  

Prior to meeting the two 9/11 terrorists, [Al-Bayoumi and bin Don] dropped by the Saudi  consulate and the King Fahd Mosque, both in Los Angeles. Al-Bayoumi knew people at each  location. After the busy work was finished, [Al-Bayoumi and bin Don] went to  a halal restaurant called the Mediterranean Café, where they sat at a table and ordered food.  While they were waiting, Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar walked into the restaurant.126 The two 9/11  hijackers had arrived in town just days earlier.127 According to bin Don, Al-Bayoumi was very  friendly to the two hijackers, immediately inviting the men to join them. Al-Bayoumi spoke with  the men in Arabic, a language bin Don did not understand. The conversation ended with Al Bayoumi giving his phone number to Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar and telling them they should  come to San Diego.128 

FBI reporting indicates Al-Bayoumi [a suspected Saudi Arabian Intelligence Officer]129 was  receiving a monthly salary from a company named ‘Ercan’, a subsidiary of Dallah/Avco.  Dallah/Avco is a Saudi company affiliated with the Saudi Ministry of Defense. Apparently, this  position at Ercan was a “no show” job because Al-Bayoumi only appeared at the company on  one occasion. Initially, Al-Bayoumi was paid $465 per month in allowances, but in March 2000,  a month after Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi arrived in the U.S., Al-Bayoumi’s allowance was  increased to $3700 per month. 130  

Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi stayed in Al-Bayoumi’s apartment for several days until Al-Bayoumi  found them an “apartment”. Al-Bayoumi co-signed their lease and may have paid for their first  

123 Classified Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001; Report of  Senate Select Committer on Intelligence & House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, December 2002, Page 7. 124 National Archives, 9-11 Commission Memorandum for the Record (MFR); https://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t 0148-911MFR-00219.pdf; as reported in The Atlantic magazine by J.M. Berger, Sep 9, 2011. 125 National Archives, 9-11 Commission Memorandum for the Record (MFR); https://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t 0148-911MFR-00219.pdf; as reported in The Atlantic magazine by J.M. Berger, Sep 9, 2011. 126 National Archives, 9-11 Commission Memorandum for the Record (MFR); https://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t 0148-911MFR-00219.pdf as reported in The Atlantic magazine by J.M. Berger, Sep 9, 2011. 127 National Archives, 9-11 Commission Memorandum for the Record (MFR); https://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t 0148-911MFR-00219.pdf as reported in The Atlantic magazine by J.M. Berger, Sep 9, 2011. 128 National Archives, 9-11 Commission Memorandum for the Record (MFR); https://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t 0148-911MFR-00219.pdf as reported in The Atlantic magazine by J.M. Berger, Sep 9, 2011. 129 Classified Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001; Report of  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence & House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, December 2002, Page 7. 130 Classified Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001; Report of  Senate Select Committer on Intelligence & House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, December 2002, Page 7.

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month’s rent and security deposit.131 The FBI investigation revealed that after Al-Mihdhar and  Al-Hazmi’s initial meeting with Al-Bayoumi, four phone calls took place between Al-Bayoumi’s  cell phone and Anwar Al-Awlaki’s cell phone during the month Al-Bayoumi provided housing  to both 9/11 hijackers in February 2000.132 133 

Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki, a CIA asset, became the spiritual advisor to Nawaf Al-Hazmi and  Khalid Al-Mihdhar at the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami Mosque in San Diego, CA when the two 9/11 hijackers entered the United States in January 2000.134 135 A year or so later, Anwar Al Awlaki, the CIA asset, moved to Springfield, VA and became Imam of a Mosque in Falls  Church, VA. Later that same year, Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar, moved 3,000-miles and began  attending the CIA asset’s mosque in Falls Church, VA. Subsequently, Al-Hazmi introduced a third 9-11 hijacker, Hani Hanjour, to CIA asset Al-Awlaki at the same Falls Church, VA Mosque.136  

FBI LEGAT Yemen reported that 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Mihdhar  attended Al-Awlaki’s Mosque in San Diego, and 9/11 hijackers Hani Hanjour and Al-Hazmi met  with Anwar Al-Awlaki at his Mosque in Falls Church, VA prior to the attacks.137 The reader is  asked to consider, what is the likelihood that three 9/11 hijackers would be found to be  worshiping at two different Mosques, 3,000 miles apart, under the tutelage of the same recruited  CIA asset [Al-Awlaki], in less than one year’s time? The possibility of this interaction between  one CIA asset and three 9/11 hijackers being a simple coincidence is very, very slight. 

The FBI’s investigation of Anwar Al-Awlaki also found that the recruited CIA asset, Al-Awlaki, was in personal contact with three additional 9/11 hijackers prior to the attacks. The FBI  documented CIA asset Al-Awlaki’s credit card was used to pay for airline tickets for 9/11  hijacker Mohamed Atta on June 28, August 1, and August 13, 2001.138 Al-Awlaki’s credit card  was also used to pay for a flight for 9/11 hijacker Al-Sheri on August 1st.139 And Al-Awlaki’s credit card was used to pay for 9/11 hijacker Satam Al-Suqami to fly with Mohamed Atta on  August 13, 2001.140 141 142 143  

At this point one must ask oneself, what is the probability that one man [Al-Awlaki], now  known to have been a recruited agent of the CIA at the time, who was so important to CIA  operations that the Director of the CIA himself ordered a foreign Head of State to release this  

131 Ibid. 

132 https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/22/cia-yemen-al-qaeda-anwar-al-awlaki/ 

133 National Archives 9-11 Commission Memorandum for the Record (MFR); https://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t-0148-911MFR-00458.pdf as  reported in The Atlantic magazine by J.M. Berger, Sep 9, 2011. 

134 Awlaki-202; PENTTBOMB; MC-182; OO:NY – Immediate Electronic Communication (EC) dated 9/17/2001;  135 National Archives 9-11 Commission Memorandum for the Record (MFR); http://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t-0148-911MFR-00455.pdf 136 National Archives 9-11 Commission Memorandum for the Record (MFR); http://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t-0148-911MFR-00455.pdf. 137 FBI Memo Re: Anwar Nasser Aulaqi, dated Dec 1, 2006; Intelwire-Awlaki-Binder1 (gwu.edu) 138 (Awlaki-26) in Judicial Watch FOIA received Jan 2, 2013; FBI Files | Judicial Watch | Freedom Of Information Act (United States)  (scribd.com) 

139 Docs Indicate FBI Knew Terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi Purchased Airline Tickets for 9/11 Hijackers | Judicial Watch 140 CIA Pressured Yemen to Release al-Qaeda Leader From Prison (mintpressnews.com)  

141 Docs Indicate FBI Knew Terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi Purchased Airline Tickets for 9/11 Hijackers | Judicial Watch 142 (Awlaki-49) in Judicial Watch FOIA received Jan 2, 2013; FBI Files | Judicial Watch | Freedom Of Information Act (United States)  (scribd.com) 

143 Docs Indicate FBI Knew Terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi Purchased Airline Tickets for 9/11 Hijackers | Judicial Watch

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same man [Al-Awlaki] from jail... This same man [Al-Awlaki] would be in frequent personal  contact with six of the 9/11 terrorists, at two locations 3,000 miles apart? Perhaps Brennan’s  knowledge that a recruited CIA asset was “providing aid and comfort” to six Al-Qaeda terrorists  in the United States prior to their carrying out the worst terrorist attack in our history is why  Brennan hates The Donald so? 

The reader is encouraged to recall the Director of the CIA’s documented, extreme interest in the  well-being of Al-Awlaki in the telephone call to a foreign head of state (Yemeni President  Saleh). Recall how the CIA asset Al-Awlaki had documented personal contact with six of the  9/11 hijackers – even buying several of them airline tickets. Consider how two of the 9/11  hijackers were known Al-Qaeda members the CIA tracked to, and from, a terror planning session  in Kuala Lumpur, and then actively prevented their investigation by the FBI while those  terrorists were in the United States.  

Recall how the CIA Director provided a false official statement (the Letterhead Memorandum to  the Director FBI) to further hamper FBI investigative efforts in regards to these same 9/11  hijackers. And finally, the reader is requested to consider that all of these proven facts of CIA  obstruction happened while our hero John Brennan was the Chief of Staff to CIA Director Tenet.  Perhaps Brennan knowingly providing aid and comfort to the 9/11 hijackers is why John  Brennan hates The Donald so? 

Following his Chief of Staff assignment at CIAHQ, John Brennan was promoted to be the  Deputy Executive Director of the CIA in March 2001. Fortuitously for Brennan, this transfer  enabled him to place an “executive” position entry on his resume about 7-months prior to the  September 11th attacks. The move from CIA Chief of Staff to DED CIA had the effect of  removing Brennan from the limelight at just the time the entire country was wondering how the  CIA allowed the greatest surprise attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor in 1941.  Brennan’s DED CIA position was not one where the media, the US Senate, or the US House of  Representatives would call him on the carpet to explain what happened. He was out of sight out  of mind. Brennan could just go about his duties in the shadows while Director George Tenet took  any heat about this massive intelligence failure. Without any undue public scrutiny Brennan  completed his Deputy Executive Director tour on March 13, 2003,144 just as US forces began a  new war in NE/SA’s area of responsibility, Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 19, 2003.145  

On January 28, 2003, two months prior to Brennan completing his tour as Deputy Executive  Director of the CIA and our invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush used his annual State of  the Union Address to direct the US Intelligence Community to “…develop a Terrorist Threat  Integration Center [TTIC] to merge and analyze all threat information in a single location...”146  The stated purpose of this new TTIC was to prevent a situation where one entity (the CIA) had  

144 “An interview with TTIC Director John Brennan”; Studies In Intelligence; Vol 48, No. 4, with Paul Johnson, Editor Studies in  Intelligence, interview date July 21, 2004; https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 145 Congressional Research Service, U.S. Periods of War and Dates of Recent Conflicts; Updated November 29, 2022; page 10. “…9 On March  19, 2003, President Bush announced to the nation that the early stages of military operations against Iraq had begun and designated them  Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)…” 

146 History (dni.gov); https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history; retrieved 9/26/2023.

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information another entity (the FBI) needed to prevent a terror attack, but neither entity knew  the other needed it to prevent the attack. Of course, this rationale was a lie because we have  established the CIA knew the FBI needed the information the CIA had, but actively,  intentionally, and knowingly, withheld the information needed to prevent 9/11 from the FBI – even using a False Official Statement (the Ali Soufan LHM) to prevent the FBI from stopping the  attack.  

Based on the evidence described so far, it appears the CIA withheld key information from the  FBI to enable the 9/11 attacks to succeed. After all the CIA had the means (asset reporting,  SIGINT reporting, etc.), motive (need of a new adversary to justify their multi-billion-dollar  budget), and opportunity (asset reporting, SIGINT reporting, dissemination control over key  information) to enable the 9/11 attacks to succeed and make Al Qaeda the new existential  threat from whom the CIA would be called upon to protect us. Despite George Tenet, et al.’s,  failure to protect us from Al Qaeda on 9/11 President George W. Bush decided to use the  resulting crisis to establish a new entity – the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC).  Brennan as a former head of terrorism analysis in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, with years  of experience with NE/SA terrorists, and as former Deputy Executive Director of the agency  would seem a logical choice to head this new TTIC.  

“… On 1 May 2003, the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) opened its doors. Led by its  first Director, John Brennan, TTIC filled its ranks with approximately three dozen detailees from  across the US Government (USG) and was mandated to integrate CT capabilities and missions  across the government…”147 [Brennan had the title “detailee” changed to “assignee”, a small  but important detail which becomes apparent when introducing the reader to Michael Jones, a  U.S. State Department Intelligence Analyst and later a Diplomatic Security Service Agent].148 

“…With the stand up of TTIC, information sharing, watchlisting, and situational awareness were  beginning to be addressed as USG-wide activities that continue to be critical today…”149 

“…In August 2004, and at the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission, TTIC was incorporated  into the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) by Executive Order (EO) 13354, which  became the foundation for codifying NCTC’s authorities in the Intelligence Reform and  Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004. Through EO 13354 and subsequently the IRTPA,  NCTC was given the responsibilities for not only integrating analysis and coordinating  information sharing and situational awareness, but also for strategic operational planning in  direct support to the President…”150 

“…In 2005, NCTC’s mission was expanded further as the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Commission called for mission management, and NCTC was established as what is now known  

147 History (dni.gov); https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history; retrieved 9/26/2023. 

148 “An interview with TTIC Director John Brennan”; Studies In Intelligence; Vol 48, No. 4, with Paul Johnson, Editor Studies in  Intelligence, interview date July 21, 2004; https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 149 History (dni.gov); https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history; retrieved 9/26/2023. 

150 History (dni.gov); https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history; retrieved 9/26/2023.

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as the National Intelligence Manager for Counterterrorism (NIM-CT). The attempted bombing  of a US airliner on Christmas Day 2009 led to the most recent addition to NCTC’s roles and  responsibilities, prioritizing and thoroughly pursuing the threads of terrorism threats...”151 

Wow, a lot of John Brennan’s most important career steps were encapsulated in the preceding  five paragraphs found on the Department of Homeland Security website! To recap, the last  month of his Deputy Executive Director time (March 2003) Brennan was laying the groundwork  for the future Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) housed in CIAHQ. On May 1, 2003, the TTIC opened its doors for business with Brennan its first Director.152 And to top off all this  consolidation of counterterrorism authority, the NCTC was made the National Intelligence  Manager for Counterterrorism (NIM-CT). As the NIM-CT the NCTC now had legal authority  over all other US Intelligence Agencies to direct them how to handle any information or data  those agencies had in their possession. 

The reader can well imagine that centralizing all counterterrorism intelligence in a single entity  would be a daunting task. This entity would need to collate information from 14 separate  intelligence agencies, collect and analyze data from 26 separate intelligence community  databases,153 and disseminate a cogent assessment of threats to the President as quickly as  possible. Just the watchlisting task154 alone would be extremely difficult. How would our hero  John Brennan be able to perform such a herculean task? Remember The Analysis Corporation? That’s how. 

Brennan as the Director of the TTIC, and TTIC’s successor agency, the National  Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)155, used The Analysis Corporation (TAC) as the foundation of  both operations [TTIC & NCTC] from 2003 until he was hired as TAC’s CEO in 2005.156 As  founding director of TTIC/NCTC Brennan was intimately familiar with the capabilities of TAC  due to his past assignment as head of terrorism analysis in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center 10-years earlier. As Director NCTC Brennan surely knew the price TAC could charge for its  indispensable services in the Global War on Terror (GWOT).  

Brennan’s return to federal employment.  

In October 2008 Brennan took a leave of absence from his CEO position at TAC - the  indispensable government contractor, to serve as a foreign policy advisor to the presidential  campaign of Barak Hussein Obama.157 A review of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)  

151 History (dni.gov); https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history; retrieved 9/26/2023. 152 What a coincidence that Brennan’s first vote in a presidential election (1976) was for the Communist Party candidate Gus Hall, and Brennan  opened the doors of the TTIC on May Day – the annual International Workers Day founded by the Marxist International Socialist Congress in  1889? As all students of history know, the May Day celebrations in communist regimes worldwide are the largest celebrations held in those  countries each year. Probably nothing to be concerned about… 

153 “An interview with TTIC Director John Brennan”; Studies In Intelligence; Vol 48, No. 4, with Paul Johnson, Editor Studies in  Intelligence, interview date July 21, 2004; https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 154 History (dni.gov); https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history; retrieved 9/26/2023. 155 “An interview with TTIC Director John Brennan”; Studies In Intelligence; Vol 48, No. 4, with Paul Johnson, Editor Studies in  Intelligence, interview date July 21, 2004; https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 156 https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history 

157 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_Corporation; copied on 6/15/2019

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documents show The Analysis Corporation (TAC) was in the midst of a corporate reorganization  to prepare for the planned Initial Public Offering (IPO) when Brennan took his leave of absence.  

As we all know, President Obama won his election and rewarded John Brennan with an  appointment to be President Obama’s National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism (NSA/CT)  in January 2009. History also shows that Brennan’s achievements as Obama’s NSA/CT were  eventually rewarded with Brennan’s appointment as the Director of the Central Intelligence  Agency (CIA) from 2013 to 2017. Brennen’s employment history both in government and  without seems to be one of success upon success, but the question remains “Why does John  Brennan hate The Donald so?”

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Chapter 3: Brennan’s post CIA payouts. 

Brennan’s former boss, CIA Director George Tenet, despite his failure to prevent 9-11, made out  like a bandit when he left the helm of the CIA on July 11, 2004.158 Despite his overseeing the  greatest intelligence failure since the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941, CIA Director  Tenet was rewarded at his retirement by obtaining various consulting gigs and coveted  assignments to the Board of Directors of very large multi-national corporations. Director Tenet’s  board memberships included: Qinetiq - the British Defense Contractor, Guidance Software,  Allen & Company Investment Bank, and L-1 Identity Solutions – a biometric company. These  are a few of the many corporations that provide expensive contract services to the U.S.  Government – especially during the multi-trillion dollar Global War on Terror (GWOT).  

The financial benefit of such Board memberships is often found in the generous stock options  provided the Board member for his personal relationships with Government Agency leadership  the new Board member developed during his career. George Tenet joined Qinetiq’s Board in  October 2006.159 Director Tenet oversaw the initiation of two, multi-trillion-dollar wars – Afghanistan and Iraq, so it is reasonable to believe he developed many personal contacts that  would provide lucrative business leads for his multi-national employers to harvest.  

Trading on one’s contacts from government service is one of the well-known, but un-official,  benefits of a successful bureaucratic career. According to the online magazine SALON,  “…Tenet has been earning substantial income by working for corporations that provide the U.S.  government with technology, equipment and personnel used for the war in Iraq as well as the  broader war on terror…”160 “…When Tenet hit the talk-show circuit last week [circa May 2007] to defend his stewardship of the CIA and his role in the run-up to the war, he did not mention  that he is a director and advisor to four corporations that earn millions of dollars in revenue from  contracts with U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense. Nor is it ever  mentioned in Tenet’s book, At the Center of the Storm. Salon’s review of public records indicate Tenet has received at least $2.3 million from those corporations in stock and other  compensation [as of 2007]…”161  

Our hero John Brennan, unfortunately, has not attained the same lucrative Board of Directors  memberships Director Tenet has, but he has been awarded numerous, lower prestige positions.  Some of Brennan’s post government positions include: “…a Distinguished Fellow at the Center  on National Security at Fordham Law School, a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Texas  at Austin, a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, as a senior intelligence and national security analyst for NBC and MSNBC, and as an advisor to a  variety of private sector companies…”162 He is also one of several “Principals” at WestExec  Advisors, a consulting firm comprised of numerous retired Admirals, Generals, former  

158 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5129314 

159 Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, “Former CIA chief joins the board of Qinetiq.”; October 25, 2006. Retrieved from Web.Archive.Org  https://web.archive.org/web/20071127103148/http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article1927199.ece, 10/3/2023 160 https://www.salon.com/2007/05/07/tenet_money/ 

161 https://www.salon.com/2007/05/07/tenet_money/ 

162 Press Release, Westexec Advisors, April 11, 2022, https://www.citybiz.co/article/244125/john-o-brennan-former director-of-the-central-intelligence-agency-joins-westexec-advisors/

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Intelligence Agency Directors and other former high-ranking officials of U.S. Intelligence  Agencies.163 These positions are not on the level of Board of Directors membership at  Lockheed Martin, or even Qinteq, but they bring in substantial income for sure. 

John Brennan did obtain one key Board of Directors seat after he initially retired from the CIA in  November 2005.164 On October 31, 2005, a few days before he retired as the Director of the  NCTC, a press release by The Analysis Corporation (TAC) announced that Brennan would  become their next CEO upon his retirement from the CIA.165 166 Brennan successfully parlayed  his government credentials into becoming the CEO of The Analysis Corporation (TAC),167 with  an annual salary in excess of $250,000 a year.168 If one adds in his CIA pension after 25-years’  service, Brennan was easily pulling in over $350,000 a year in 2005. With the exception of a  greedy person, one could consider $350,000 a year an excellent reward for 25-years government  service. 

Eamon Javers of CNBC claimed that his reading of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)  records indicated that “…According to a corporate document filed with the Securities and  Exchange Commission, Brennan was given a compensation package at The Analysis  Corporation worth more than $750,000 in 2008, one of just over three years he spent at the  McLean, Va., based company…”169 The difference between Brennan’s SEC reported annual  salary and the compensation identified by CNBC’s Javers above, may partially be explained by  the Executive Compensation schedule reported to the SEC during the spin-off of The Analysis  Corporation as a separate corporation in preparation for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of stock  in the company.170 Based on Eamon Javers reporting, one can conclude that Brennan was  handsomely rewarded for his successful career in the U.S. Intelligence Community, both in  salary and stock options. 

Hmmm…, Brennan’s former boss Tenet makes a bundle with Qinetiq stock and Brennan is  specifically hired by another company to set up an IPO… I wonder…? Could this corporate  spin-off for an IPO have anything to do with why John Brennan hates The Donald so?  

163 https://www.westexec.com/our-team/; retrieved Aug 11, 2023. 

164 https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2005/10/31/daily38.html 

165 http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2005/10/31/daily38.html Former counterterror chief to lead SFA subsidiary  166 “Intel Firm Paid CIA Nominee Well As He Left for White House”, by Ralph Turchiano, Feb 10, 2013, which included an article by Aram  Roston, dated Feb 4, 2013; https://clinicalnews.org/2013/02/10/intel-firm-paid-cia-nominee-well-as-he-left-for-white-house/ 167 https://engineeringevil.com/2013/02/10/intel-firm-paid-cia-nominee-well-as-he-left-for-white-house/  168 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509224857/ds1a.htm#toc36942_7 

169 In Brennan's Private Sector Stint, a Chinese Connection (cnbc.com); dated February 6, 2013.w 

170 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312510120468/ds1a.htm

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Chapter 4: The Analysis Corporation 

The Analysis Corporation (TAC) was founded in 1990.171 Initially, TAC was a “boutique”  government contractor in the intelligence space with a minimal number of employees.172 TAC’s  claim to fame was the development and maintenance of the original terrorist tracking database  for the CIA and the State Department.173 The first terrorist tracking database was called the  TIPOFF List. 174 As time progressed, the TIPOFF List took on greater and greater significance  vis-à-vis the CIA. The timing of the creation of the TIPOFF List indicates it was probably begun  in response to the need to track tens of thousands newly created Islamic mercenaries/terrorists. 

The emerging “Islamic mercenary” terror groups (such as Al Qaeda),who arose when the Soviets  abandoned Afghanistan in 1989 were generally made up of individuals who used non-Latin  characters, such as Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, etc., to spell their names in their native languages.  The members of these non-European peopled terror groups would just ‘transliterate’ their names  into Latin characters however they wished for travel or for use in western documents such as  driver’s licenses. For example, the name Mohammed in Arabic characters is rendered as   but in Latin characters one can render the name as Muhammad, Mohammad,  Muhammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Muhamad, Muhamed, Mohamud, Mohummad, Mohummed,  Mouhamed, Mohammod, Mouhamad, etc. With so many different but valid spellings in Latin  characters, tracking someone with this name through various databases (government, travel,  hotel, credit card, utility company, telephone, airline, etc.) would be very time consuming for the  overworked intelligence analysts of the CIA. Luckily, that plucky little boutique government  contractor, The Analysis Corporation (TAC), came up with computer programs and algorithms  to handle all those variations – FUZZY FINDER in 1990,175 Arabic Name Search in 1997,176 and  Russian Name Search (i.e. Cyrillic characters) in 2000.177 

With FUZZY FINDER, and the other computer algorithm programs TAC developed, any  statement to the public that a terrorist’s name was somehow missed or overlooked during an  investigation due to a different spelling is a lie. FUZZY FINDER, Arabic Name Search, Russian  Name Search, etc. eliminates the possibility of missing the name due to using a different  transliterative spelling. If a government spokesman, or an anonymous government official  leaking to the press, is using this lie, then the fact they are lying to mislead the public should  cause the listener/ news article reader/ TV viewer great concern. The spokesman, anonymous or  otherwise, is trying to hide something… 

171 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_Corporation; copied on 6/15/2019 

172 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_Corporation; copied on 6/15/2019 

173 Ibid. 

174“[TAC] said it “designed and maintained” the State Department’s TIPOFF list, an early version of the [terrorist  watch] list…”; https://engineeringevil.com/2013/02/10/intel-firm-paid-cia-nominee-well-as-he-left-for white-house/  

175 https://www.chron.com/news/article/PRN-The-Analysis-Corporation-and-Infoglide-1859462.php 176 Ibid. 

177 Ibid.

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By 2005, when Brennan became CEO, TAC became the indispensable government contractor.  By that time The Analysis Corporation had 15-year experience in maintaining the Terrorist  Tracking Database, formerly known as TIPOFF, for the U.S. Department of State. Of course,  the US Government owned the data in the database, but TAC basically owned the patent and the  software copyright on the Terrorist Watch List since 1990. As the reader is aware, massive  amounts of data are worthless if you cannot sort through the data to find the nuggets of  information you need. TAC provided that sorting function and no one else could replace them.  TAC owned the database and the algorithms needed to search it. TAC’s expertise made them  indispensable to the US Government. 

As noted above, TAC developed proprietary software to quickly identify the English  transliteration of names that were originally written in Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, etc. or other non Latin characters. TAC’s proprietary technology was used to search various government and  corporately owned databases (like immigration records, visa records, Border control records  (TECS), airline passenger reservations, flight manifests, customs declarations, taxi and Uber  records, hotel reservation, credit card company records, rental car companies, telephone  company records, computer company registrations, utility company records, etc.) to identify the  travel, movement, location, and online activity of known or suspected bad actors worldwide. By  the year 2005, no one in the government could imagine sorting through the mass of data for  information on a known or suspected terrorist or tracking their travels (domestic or international)  without using a TAC product – and paying TAC a fee.  

To indicate how financially valuable The Analysis Corporation (TAC) was as a commercial  enterprise, imagine if you will that TAC owned the Intelligence Community version of the  “double click” patent. Whenever a website wants to use the “double click” feature to enable an  activity on their site, they must pay a royalty to the “double click” patent owner. If 10 million  sites use that feature just 10 times each day, then all 10 million websites pay the patent owner a  user fee just 10 times a day. At just one-half penny per “double click” the money adds up very  quickly. With the cited example, the “double click” patent holder would receive only 5 cents  from a particular website, but $500,000 each day in aggregate. 

TAC enhanced their value proposition even more by hiring Intelligence Analysts with TS/SCI  clearances to perform the searches for the government. Not only did TAC collect a fee for the  double-click-like name searches, but they also charged a fee to pay for their individuals who  performed the searches for the government. Brennan was well versed in TAC’s indispensability.  When President George Bush (Bush43) “…instruct[ed] the leaders of the FBI, Central  Intelligence, Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat  Integration Center [TTIC] to merge and analyze all threat information in a single location…”178,  Brennan was promoted by CIA Director George Tenet to be the initial director of the TTIC on  March 13, 2003.179 180 Recall that Brennan had been head of terrorism analysis in the CIA  

178 https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history 

179 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

180 “An interview with TTIC Director John Brennan”; Studies In Intelligence; Vol 48, No. 4, with Paul Johnson, Editor Studies in  Intelligence, interview date July 21, 2004; https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf

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Counterterrorism Center in 1990-1991, at the very time TAC began to provide its indispensable  service to the CIA.  

It is obvious that the “head of terrorism analysis” in 1990 and 1991 (Brennan) would be one of  the first CIA analysts to use TAC’s FUZZY FINDER program as part of his duties. Once the  “head of terrorism analysis” was completely familiar with FUZZY FINDER he could then teach  his subordinate analysts to do the same. FUZZY FINDER made it impossible for any record  related to the travel, communication, banking, purchase, etc. of a person of interest to be  overlooked by US intelligence; unless US Intelligence wanted to overlook the record – and  Brennan has known this better than anyone since 1991. 

The new TTIC Director (Brennan) would be forced by circumstance alone to rely on The  Analysis Corporation’s (TAC) 15-year monopoly of all US government terrorist tracking data to  support the center’s operation. Brennan himself stated,  

“… The idea behind TTIC was that we needed to have someplace in the government where all  counterterrorism information would reside. Eventually, information from all 26 classified and  unclassified networks [of the U.S. Intelligence Community] flowed into TTIC; [TTIC] wanted  

voyeuristic capability. The good news and the bad news: [TTIC] had more access to more  information than anywhere in the government…”181 182  

With all that data in one central someplace, only a very robust and experienced data management  system would be successful – that service was provided by The Analysis Corporation (TAC). As  TTIC Director, Brennan would be very familiar with how much his office, TTIC, was paying for  each search his analysts performed every day. TAC was not the indispensable government  

contractor for nothing.  

TAC owning the Terrorist Tracking Database was extremely financially rewarding. Anyone and  everyone in CT work, from the CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, Department of Defense, Homeland  Security, State Department, Customs and Border Protection, Joint Terrorism Task Forces,  Treasury, etc., who searches the terrorist database must pay TAC a user fee. These multiples of  user fees add up very quickly - that is some seriously valuable indispensability right there. The  number of searches must have been in the tens of millions – can you say, “show me the money”! 

As noted earlier, TAC was a boutique government contractor with huge potential when it was  bought by a larger, well-established, defense contractor named SFA, Inc. in 2003.183 When  Brennan retired from the government for the first time in 2005, he was hired by SFA, Inc. to be  the CEO of The Analysis Corporation specifically to aid in the spin-off of TAC for an Initial  Public Offering (IPO). Brennan was intimately familiar with the indispensable capabilities and  economic value of The Analysis Corporation (TAC) since 1990.184 Brennan’s time in the CTC  

181 http://web.mit.edu/SSP/seminars/wed_archives06fall/BRENNAN .htm 

182 “An interview with TTIC Director John Brennan”; Studies In Intelligence; Vol 48, No. 4, with Paul Johnson, Editor Studies in  Intelligence, interview date July 21, 2004; https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 183 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509187027/ds1.htm 

184 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN 

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directly maps to the time when TAC first organized and ran the TIPOFF list for the CIA and  State Department.185 

To aid in establishing a share price for TAC’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), Brennan hired his  CIA mentor, Director George Tenet, as an advisor to the TAC Board of Directors. Brennan tried  to trade on his former boss’s intelligence ‘cachet’ by hiring Tenet to an advisory position at  (TAC)186 to help generate sales. One of Brennan’s forays into using George Tenet to generate  sales for TAC did not fare very well.187  

In Mid 2007 TAC competed with several other established CIA contractors to capture a contract Codenamed HAWKEYE to review over 1 million CIA documents known as cables.188 Cables  are text documents that are transmitted electronically and can have one or more classification  markings in each document. The HAWKEYE contract was for the review of about 1.3 million  CIA cables that were sent and received between the years 1999 and 2005. TAC did not win the  contract and filed a grievance with the CIA’s contracting office.189 The CIA’s Office of General  Counsel (OGC) reviewed the grievance and found that the TAC officers who submitted the  grievance, John Brennan and Alexander Drew [remember that name], made material false  statements in the grievance which caused the OGC to deny TAC’s claim.190 The CIA OGC sent  a letter to the General Accounting Office (GAO) to document the CIA’s concerns.191 

Thanks to the WikiLeaks website a blogger named Tim Shorrock was able to review documents  related to the HAWKEYE contract dispute. Shorrock wrote,  

“…more surprisingly, [the CIA OGC letter] shows that the CIA’s contracting office thought that  TAC was technically inept, intellectually dishonest, and heavily reliant on a handful of former  officials—such as BRENNAN and his former boss, George Tenet—to get its way in the high  stakes world of intelligence contracting...”192 “…Essentially, CIA officials concluded that  BRENNAN and other former CIA officials working for TAC and its subcontractors provided  “insider information” to their procurement office. That could be a violation of federal  contracting rules that, according to legal experts and contracting laws, forbid “unauthorized  disclosures” of such information prior to a contract award by individuals who “have worked for,  acted on behalf of, or advised the Government...”193 

“…The letter further charged that Brennan, as TAC’s CEO, had directly participated in  meetings with TAC’s partners, BAE Systems and SRA, over a software program that CIA  

185 https://engineeringevil.com/2013/02/10/intel-firm-paid-cia-nominee-well-as-he-left-for-white-house/ 186 https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalmilitarism19.htm#The_Analysis_Corporation_(TAC)_ 187 Letter to David A. Ashen, Esq. Dep. Assist. General Counsel, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Matter  of The Analysis Corporation, File B-310924, from Arthur L. Passar, OGC, CIA, dated February 15, 2007;  https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/Analysis-Corporation/page-1.html 

188 Ibid. 

189 Ibid. 

190 Letter to David A. Ashen, Esq. Dep. Assist. General Counsel, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Matter  of The Analysis Corporation, File B-310924, from Arthur L. Passar, OGC, CIA, dated February 15, 2007;  https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/Analysis-Corporation/page-1.html 

191 Ibid. 

192 https://timshorrock.com/2015/10/27/did-BRENNAN -suck-as-a-contractor-the-cia-thinks-so/ 193 https://timshorrock.com/2015/10/27/did-BRENNAN -suck-as-a-contractor-the-cia-thinks-so/

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acquisition executives thought was too risky. This kind of collaboration apparently struck the  CIA as unethical.194 [The CIA OGC] lawyers noted that TAC’s documents “show that it  possessed what it now calls ‘inside information’ from its subcontractor BAE, from at least one  former senior Government official on TAC’s staff who obviously was familiar with the Program,  as well as from other Watchlist Program participants.”195 One can infer from the letter that the  former official in question was John Brennan. Brennan lies to the public, the Senate, and even  his old employer the CIA. 

“…Against this background, the Agency is extremely concerned regarding the apparent  disingenuousness of TAC’s protest,” the CIA wrote.196 “Additionally, we have clear evidence  that…statements made by TAC in its protest documents are directly at odds with TAC’s  contemporaneous documents.”197 In other words, TAC representatives (Brennan and Alexander  Drew) lied to CIA contracting officials in the protest documents used for an official government  proceeding. The CIA, of course, would not come out and say this [making a false statement to  mislead a government proceeding - an 18 USC 1001 felony violation] of its former chief of staff [Brennan], but the inference is clear from the letter’s conclusions. 

“…An agency should…be able to rely upon offerors doing business with the Government to  communicate openly with it during an acquisition…and to communicate with candor both during  the acquisition and in any challenges thereafter. In our view, TAC, and TAC alone, has failed to  meet these reasonable expectations of a party to this important process [emphasis original – the  CIA was very angry at ex- CIA Chief of Staff Brennan]…”198 Attached to the CIA letter is TAC’s  original bid for the HAWKEYE contract.199 The letter’s conclusion simply reiterates the most  consistent theme throughout John Brennan’s long career in the CIA and in CIA contracting – Brennan is a serial liar in official, legal proceedings, who lies to benefit himself.  

Over 250-years ago there was another serial liar who falsified official documents named  Benedict Arnold. Benedict Arnold’s lies for selfish reasons led to treason by “…providing aid  and comfort to the enemy…” during a time of war. This book will show that Brennan’s lies for  selfish reasons also led him to commit treason by “…providing aid and comfort to the enemy…”  during a time of war. Benedict Arnold committed treason for money – so did John Owen  Brennan. 

194 Letter to David A. Ashen, Esq. Dep. Assist. General Counsel, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Matter  of The Analysis Corporation, File B-310924, from Arthur L. Passar, OGC, CIA, dated February 15, 2007;  https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/Analysis-Corporation/page-1.html 

195 Ibid. 

196 Letter to David A. Ashen, Esq. Dep. Assist. General Counsel, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Matter  of The Analysis Corporation, File B-310924, from Arthur L. Passar, OGC, CIA, dated February 15, 2007;  https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/Analysis-Corporation/page-1.html. 

197 Letter to David A. Ashen, Esq. Dep. Assist. General Counsel, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Matter  of The Analysis Corporation, File B-310924, from Arthur L. Passar, OGC, CIA, dated February 15, 2007;  https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/Analysis-Corporation/page-1.html 

198 Ibid. 

199 https://timshorrock.com/2015/10/27/did-BRENNAN -suck-as-a-contractor-the-cia-thinks-so/

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Chapter 5: The Analysis Corps Path to an Initial Public Offering. At this time in our narrative, some history of The Analysis Corporation’s path to an Initial Public  Offering of stock needs to be disclosed. According to Eamon Javers of CNBC, around the time  of Brennan’s failed bid for the HAWKEYE contract [2007], Damian Perl of Global Strategies  Group, a London based Private Military Contractor (PMC) was looking for “… a foothold in the  United States to expand his contracting business with the US government…”200 

Javers wrote “…Damian Perl was a former Royal Marine who founded his PMC company to  take advantage of the enormous amounts of contracting dollars the US was spending in Iraq for  security [this would be some of the trillions of dollars the US was spending on the Global War  on Terror]. One former Global Strategies Group employee stated, "the profits on that [Iraq  security] business were almost obscenely big, but there were risks associated with that. [Perl]  wanted to get out of the 'Guns, Gates and Gurkhas' business."201 “…According to several  people who worked there, by 2007, Perl's company Global Strategies Group was flush with cash  from its security business in Iraq, where it worked for the Iraqi and US governments to provide  specially trained soldiers and guards to secure Baghdad International Airport, protect  dignitaries, move cash inside the country, and guard the Green Zone...”202 

According to Javer’s article, “…Another former employee says Perl soon set his eyes on  Brennan's firm. "The Analysis Corporation was the crown jewel of SFA," said this former  employee. "We bought SFA because of The Analysis Corporation."203 SFA, Inc. (including  TAC) was purchased by Perl’s Global Strategies Group on February 9, 2007.204 Damian Perl  owned Global Strategies Group, but the Board of Directors for Global Strategies Group included  CIA alumni who were contemporaries of John Brennen. One Board member was Jack Devine, the CIA Chief of Station London from 1995 to 1998, and another Board member was John  Gannon, the CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence from 1995 to 1997.205 206 Another Intelligence  Community alumni John Hillen, former Assistant Secretary of State for Political - Military  Affairs, was the president of Global Strategies Group (North America), the US-based affiliate of  Global Strategies Group which handled the IPO Spin-Off.207  

The Wall Street Journal reported Brennan was made Chairman of the Board of Global Strategies  Group (North America) in August 2007.208 It is not a stretch to believe that Brennan’s CIA  contemporaries on the Global Strategies Group Board of Directors, Devine and Gannon, were  instrumental in convincing their boss, Damien Perl, to purchase SFA, Inc. with its TAC property.  And Hillen took up a leadership position with The Analysis Corporation to shepherd it through  

200 Eamon Javers, CNBC.com, “In Brennan’s Private Sector Stint, a Chinese Connection.” February 13, 2013;  https://www.cnbc.com/id/100440555. Michael Tomaso contributed to this article. 

201 Ibid. 

202 Ibid. 

203 Eamon Javers, CNBC.com, “In Brennan’s Private Sector Stint, a Chinese Connection.” February 13, 2013;  https://www.cnbc.com/id/100440555. Michael Tomaso contributed to this article. 

204 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312510120468/ds1a.htm 

205 https://lidblog.com/spygate-BRENNAN -british/ 

206 https://idraintheswamp.com/home/central-intelligence-agency-cia/john-o-BRENNAN /analysis-corporation/ 207 https://washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2007/06/22/Technology-with-a-human-touch.aspx 208 http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Brennan.pdf

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the IPO process after Brennan returned to government employment in the Obama Administration [Jan 2009].  

As the CEO of The Analysis Corporation (TAC), and then Board member of the new parent  company Global (USA), Brennan was awarded stock options amounting to 1.5 percent  ownership209 of the indispensable government contractor TAC. Under the employee vesting  schedule in effect when John Brennan left TAC, he had 25,001 shares of TAC stock in his TAC  401K plan account on February 9, 2008, the anniversary date of Perl’s purchase of SFA, Inc. and  TAC, Inc.210 211 The remaining 75,006 shares of Brennan’s 1.5 percent ownership position in  the company were stock options scheduled to vest at 25% per year over the next 3-years on the  anniversary of Global Strategies Group’s acquisition of TAC.212 These 75,006 shares are best  described as “…outstanding stock options…”  

When Brennan left TAC to join the Obama Administration in January 2009, an SEC filing  indicates all moneys owed to Brennan were paid and Brennan “…forfeited all his outstanding  option awards…”213 Brennan did not forfeit his 25,001 shares of realized TAC stock options held in his TAC 401K account. Brennan held onto those 25,001 shares of stock in TAC’s  “…Long-Term Incentive Compensation plan that TAC had under its prior owner SFA [which]  …consisted of awards of stock options and/or restricted stock under the SFA Plan, adopted by  [Global] in 2007 following its acquisition of SFA…”214 These shares of stock were held in the  TAC 401K accounts of current and former employees. Brennan held a proprietary ownership  interest in TAC when he joined the Obama Administration.215 Can you say, “Conflict of  Interest?”  

According to Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) records, during the process of spinning  off The Analysis Corporation from SFA, Inc. as an independent company in preparation for the  IPO, The Analysis Corporation went through several names changes, but no substantive  organizational or employee policy changes. While Brennan was still CEO of The Analysis  Corporation, and a Board member of GLOBAL (USA), he used his CEO and Board member  authority to ensure the Long-Term Incentive Compensation plan protected his ownership interest  in the company despite any future name or ownership changes. Brennan ensured his TAC stock  was kept in his TAC 401K account. That TAC 401K account reference is very important to  proving Brennan’s treason for financial gain.  

209 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312510120468/dex1011.htm 

210 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312510120468/dex1011.htm 211 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm ; pg. 87 212 Ibid. 

213 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312510120468/ds1a.htm#tx46506_11] 

214 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312510120468/ds1a.htm 215 John O. Brennan, Executive Branch Personal Financial Disclosure (SF-278); dated Feb 17, 2009;  

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The number of name changes TAC went through as it moved to the Initial Public Offering  appears to be indicative of a desire to confuse anyone looking into the ownership of TAC and its  successor companies. The process of spinning off TAC followed a convoluted procession of  name changes:216 

- SFA, Inc. (with TAC, Inc.) was succeeded by Global Strategies Group (North America),  Inc., also known as GNA Holdings, 

- TAC was succeeded by Global Technology Strategies, Inc. and SFA, Inc. became a  separate company217, 

- Global Technology Strategies, Inc. was succeeded by Contego Systems, Inc. with the  name Contego NewCo Company, which was  

- succeeded by Contego Systems, Inc., which was  

- succeeded by Contego Systems, LLC, which was  

- succeeded by Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ: GTEC], which  was 

- succeeded by SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc. [NASDAQ: GTEC]218 

The final iteration of TAC’s corporate name was SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc. with the NASDAQ trading symbol of GTEC. It is very important to note that the final name of the  company for the IPO was SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc., also known as SOTERA. The  company 401K plan was renamed SOTERA 401K plan from the TAC 401K plan. The contents  of the 401K accounts stayed the same – namely, shares of stock in the company. The TAC 401K  was identical to the SOTERA 401K in Brennan’s Executive Branch Personal Financial  Disclosure forms. Brennan simply renamed his “TAC 401K” to “SOTERA 401K” on his  Executive Branch Personal Financial Disclosure forms for each of the years 2010 through 2017 to intentionally hide his conflicts of interest violations.219 220 221 222 

As noted above, Brennan used his CEO position to ensure that the Long-Term Incentive  Compensation plan remained completely unchanged despite any, and all, name and ownership  changes of the company as it went through the IPO process. The exact wording of the Long Term Incentive Compensation plan is included below. As one can see, the company awarded  employees and executives (Brennan) with stock options and restricted stock. This stock was  held in the company 401K. When Brennan worked for the company the 401K plan was called  The Analysis Corporation 401k, or TAC 401K for short. After Brennan left the company in  2008 to help Obama win the Presidency, the company’s name changed to SOTERA Defense  Solutions, Inc. with its employee incentive compensation plan called the SOTERA 401K – different account name, but the same account holding the same items – stock in the company. 

216 GLOBAL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY & SYSTEMS, INC., Amendment No. 4 to Form S-1, Page 4:  

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509224857/ds1a.htm#toc36942_7 

217 https://washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2007/06/22/Technology-with-a-human-touch.aspx 

218 Global Defense technology & Systems, Inc. Form S-1, dated Sep 3, 2009;  

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509187027/ds1.htm 

219 John O. Brennan, Executive Branch Personnel PUBLIC FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REPORT, calendar year 2013, signed 5/15/2014;  https://cryptome.org/2015/06/cia-john-brennan-financial.pdf 

220 John O. Brennan, Executive Branch Personnel PUBLIC FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REPORT, calendar year 2014, signed 5/13/2015 221 John O. Brennan, Financial Disclosure Form 278e, calendar year 2015, dated 7/19/2016 

222 John O. Brennan, Separation Financial Disclosure Form 278e, calendar year 2016, dated 4/4/2017.

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“…Prior to [the Sotera public stock] offering, our long-term incentive compensation program consisted of  awards of stock options and/or restricted stock under the SFA Plan, adopted by [Global] in 2007 following  its acquisition of SFA. The SFA Plan was designed to reward executives and other employees for long term growth consistent with Company performance and stockholder return through the award of stock  options and restricted stock. The compensation committee reviewed and approved all award grants to the executive officers. Our compensation committee typically made annual grants of equity awards, if any, to  our executives in connection with its annual review of our executives’ compensation. Throughout the year,  our compensation committee evaluated grants for new hires, promotions or other changes that may warrant  additional grants. 

The compensation committee did not apply a rigid formula in allocating stock options to executives as a  group or to any particular executive. Instead, the compensation committee exercised its judgment and  discretion and considered, among other things, the role and responsibility of the executive, competitive  factors, the amount of stock-based equity compensation already held by the executive, the non-equity  compensation received by the executive and the total number of options to be granted to all participants  during the year. When making grants under the SFA Plan, the compensation committee also took into  account the potential dilution to which our stockholders are exposed by reviewing our option overhang.  Option overhang, which is represented in percentage form, is calculated as stock options granted plus the  remaining options that have yet to be granted under the SFA Plan divided by our total shares outstanding. 

Outstanding stock options and restricted stock awards made under the SFA Plan vest ratably over a four year  period from the date of grant for all employees, except for options granted to James Allen, our Executive Vice  President and Chief Financial Officer, in May 2009, which have a three year vesting period. The exercise  price of any option is equal to the fair market value of the shares on the date of grant, which in the past has  been determined by the board of directors. 

The ultimate value of the long-term incentive compensation awards will be dependent upon the actual  performance of our stock over time. After the effective date of this offering, the exercise price of any option  will be the closing price of our common stock on The Nasdaq Global Market on the date of grant.223 

Whew, that is a lot of legalize that basically means Brennan realized ownership of an amount of  stock equal to ¼ of his 1.5 percent ownership of TAC – namely 25,001 shares. Brennan was  awarded 25,001 shares out of a possible 100,000 shares on the first anniversary date of the sale  of SFA, Inc. (including TAC, Inc.) to Damian Perl. The compensation plan stated he would  receive an additional ¼ of the 100,000 shares on each subsequent anniversary date of the sale of  SFA, Inc (with subsidiary TAC, Inc.) for years (2009-2011). The remaining “outstanding stock  options” of ¾ of 1.5% ownership in the company Brennan were forfeited when he joined the  Obama Administration. The 25,001 shares of realized stock, which are a proprietary interest in  the company, were maintained in Brennan’s TAC 401K / SOTERA 401K account after Brennan  left the company. 

But that is not all. In the IPO process TAC filed a request with the SEC to conduct a stock split.  Global wanted its new baby to have lots of shares of stock to sell to potential investors. This is a  normal process during all IPOs and it is not uncommon to request a 2:1, 4:1 or even a 10:1 stock  split to increase the number of shares the owners can sell to other investors. Stock splits are the  

way early equity investors in any company can make a fortune if they provide a company that  appears to have an excellent income stream. The reader can well imagine that an indispensable  

223 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509224857/ds1a.htm#toc36942_7

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government contractor like The Analysis Corporation (or its successor company) would be able  to claim to have an excellent income stream; as long as the war on terror continued.  

Along with the convoluted name change process described earlier, the TAC IPO also had a bit of  a back-and-forth with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about their planned stock  split. The convoluted name changes make the various letters and form filings between the SEC  and Global’s newly spun-off company, formerly known as TAC, a bit confusing to link together.  

However, by October 22, 2009, Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc., [NASDAQ:  GTEC, which will become Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., NASDAQ: GTEC] filed an  Amendment #2 to Form S-1 for an initial public offering of stock. 

The Amended S-1 reads in part, “… We believe the following trends and developments will drive  continued growth in our target markets: 

• Robust Funding for Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Programs. Counter terrorism efforts both at home and abroad are likely to remain a central focus of the U.S.  government and the Obama administration. In the military, intelligence, and homeland  security/law enforcement communities, programs that create expertise, systems, and  solutions for the ever-evolving threat of terrorism are a top priority….”224 

The Amended S-1 also reads in part, “…Our Business Strengths and Competitive Advantages 

We believe that we are well-positioned to capitalize on the market opportunities presented  by the Obama administration’s defense and intelligence spending priorities and to support the  ongoing and new requirements of customers and programs in these mission-critical areas: 

• Alignment with Policy Priorities and Military Requirements. Our core capabilities  and exemplary past performance are well-aligned with the top priorities of the Obama  administration and the national security community. Our capabilities and expertise  closely match current and expected future requirements in the defense, intelligence and  homeland security communities. 

• Highly Skilled Workforce with High-Level Security Clearances. Over 425 of our  approximately 675 employees have security clearances and two-thirds of those are at the  Top Secret level or above. In the parts of our business that support counter-terrorism  programs and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance  and reconnaissance (C4ISR) efforts, over 90% of the employees have clearances. Over  20% of our employees have advanced degrees, principally in technical sciences, and 48  of our employees hold Ph.D.’s. 

• Strong Contract Base. Over 80% of our revenue is derived from our work with the  U.S. government as a prime contractor. Certain of our contracts provide flexible enough  procurement vehicles to allow an array of existing or new customers to engage us  quickly and efficiently to meet their mission-critical needs. 

224 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm

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• Long-Term Customer Relationships Based on Our Mission-Focused Culture. We  have worked with many of our customers for long periods of time, decades in some cases.  We believe that key factors contributing to the longevity of our customer relationships  are our mission-focused culture and the subject matter expertise and level of  understanding we have of our customers’ requirements. 

• Proprietary Technology, Intellectual Property and Know-How. We create and own  intellectual property and know-how relating to technologies, processes, and methods.  Our innovations in sensor integration, decision support systems for both the military and  intelligence markets, maritime navigation, network and communications management,  tactical water purification and reuse, and highly engineered force mobility support  solutions have enhanced our reputation in the industry as an innovative mission systems  provider…”225 

The Amended S-1 also reads in part. “…Our History and Organizational Structure 

In 2006, our indirect parent, Global Strategies Group Holding, S.A., which we refer to as  GLOBAL, formed Contego Systems Inc., which in turn established Global Technology Strategies,  Inc., for the purpose of commencing technology operations in the U.S. and hired Ronald Jones  who, immediately prior to the effectiveness of this offering, will become our Executive Vice  President, Corporate Development, to lead this effort. On February 9, 2007, Global Technology  Strategies, Inc. acquired SFA, Inc., which we refer to as SFA. SFA was originally founded in  1969 as Sachs Freeman Associates, a provider of technology services to the federal government.  SFA grew organically for most of the 38 years prior to its acquisition, and also completed two  acquisitions. In 1988, SFA acquired Frederick Manufacturing and, in 2003, it acquired TAC. 

Subsequent to the SFA acquisition, SFA was renamed Global Strategies Group (North  America) Inc., or GNA, and Global Technology Strategies, Inc. was renamed Global Strategies  Group Holding (North America) Inc., or GNA Holding. GNA and TAC are our operating  subsidiaries. At the end of 2008, as part of a restructuring, we were formed as a wholly owned  subsidiary of Contego Systems Inc. under the name Contego NewCo Company, a Delaware  corporation, and immediately thereafter Contego Systems Inc. was converted into Contego  Systems LLC. Our name was changed to Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. in July  2009. Our principal executive offices are located at 1501 Farm Credit Drive, Suite 2300,  McLean, Virginia 22102…”226 

“…In anticipation of this offering, immediately prior to this offering, [emphasis added] we will  implement a series of restructuring transactions. The historical financial statements included  elsewhere in this prospectus have not been adjusted for the 60,000-for-1 stock split. Otherwise,  the information in this prospectus reflects and assumes that the following restructuring  transactions have been effected unless otherwise indicated: 

225 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm 

226 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm

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• the amendment and restatement of our certificate of incorporation and bylaws to, among  other things, increase the number of shares of our authorized stock; 

• a 60,000-for-1 stock split of our common stock which will be approved by our Board of  Directors prior to the consummation of this offering; 

• the merger of GNA Holding with and into GNA, resulting in GNA becoming our direct,  wholly owned subsidiary; 

• our assumption of all options previously granted pursuant to the SFA, Inc. 2007 Stock  Option Plan, or SFA Plan, and appropriate adjustments to the number of shares of  common stock underlying such options as well as the exercise price of such options; and 

• the redemption by Contego Systems LLC of all of the membership interests owned by  Ronald Jones, in exchange for shares of our common stock owned by Contego Systems  LLC of equal value. 

In addition, unless otherwise indicated, the information in this prospectus reflects and  assumes: 

• the issuance of 36,432 shares of common stock to James Allen, our Executive Vice  President and Chief Financial Officer, upon the closing of this offering; 

• the issuance of options to purchase 32,789 shares of common stock to Kirk Herdman,  our Senior Vice President, Business Operations and Development, upon closing of this  offering; and 

• no exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option to purchase up to [—] additional  shares of our common stock from one of the selling stockholders….”227 

The prospectus includes “…2009 Performance Incentive Plan and SFA Inc. 2007 Stock Option  Plan…”228 

The prospectus reads in part, “…Stock options previously granted by GNA, under the SFA Inc.  2007 Stock Option Plan, which we refer to as the SFA Plan, will, prior to the effectiveness of the  registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, be assumed under the Plan. Subject to  adjustment of the number of shares and exercise price by reason of this assumption, an optionee  will then be permitted to purchase stock of the Company in accordance with the terms of the  option grant and the SFA Plan under which the option was originally granted. Except as  discussed below, the terms of those assumed options are materially similar to the terms that will  be applicable to options granted under the Plan.229 

227 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm 

228 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm 

229 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm

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However, “…Maximum Shares and Award Limits. Under the Plan, the maximum number of  shares of common stock that may be subject to awards is 1,000,000, including the 492,127  shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of options granted under the SFA Plan and  assumed under the Plan. The number of shares of common stock allocated to the Plan shall  automatically increase at the beginning of each fiscal year by a number equal to the lesser of  1.5% of the Company’s shares of outstanding common stock, 125,000 shares of common stock  and an amount determined by the Administrator. No one participant may receive awards for  more than 200,000 shares of common stock in any one calendar year [emphasis added]….”230 231 

The purpose of including these excerpts from the SEC documents regarding the TAC Initial  Public Offering (IPO) is to document how they used many company name changes to confuse  the reader [and, initially, the author…], and that Brennan’s final number of shares in his  TAC/SOTERA 401K account was at least 200,000 shares, despite the 60,000:1 stock split from  which the rest of the owners of the company benefitted.  

The SEC’s concern with the 60,000:1 split was due to the fact anyone with stock in their  TAC/SOTERA 401K would suddenly have 60,000 times more stock than prior to the IPO. That  huge change in equity positions would cause the company to have a completely out of whack  balance sheet and therefore the SEC could not allow it. To placate the SEC, the company limited  to number of shares in any single 401K account to annual awards of no more than 200,000.  Brennan held 25,001 shares when he left the company to return to government service with  President Obama, so the company could only increase the number of shares in Brennan’s  TAC/SOTERA 401K to 200,000 shares.  

Why Brennan owning shares in TAC/SOTERA from January 2009 through January 2017  matters? 

Brennan had a financial stake in the indispensable government contractor TAC/SOTERA  during his tenure as both the President’s National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism and as  Director CIA. Both government offices held by Brennan involved decisions that can be  reasonably assumed to affect the valuation of the indispensable government contractor for  counterterrorism. Brennan owning that stock while so employed is the definition of a financial  conflict of interest. The principal conflict of interest statute under federal law is a criminal  provision which requires federal executive branch officials to disqualify or “recuse” themselves  from working personally and substantially on any particular matter before the government in  which that official (or those close enough to the official that their interests may be imputed to the  official) has any “financial interest.” (18 U.S.C. § 208), a felony carrying a 5-year prison term  for each violation.232 By virtue of his position to advise the President of the United States on  any, and all terrorism related issues, Brennan violated Title 18 USC 208, numerous times each  day for 8 straight years! Nearly every decision, statement, or action Brennan took was a  violation of the conflict-of-interest statute!  

230 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm 

231 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509217559/ds1a.htm 

232 https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43365.pdf, Jack Maskell, Financial Assets and Conflict of Interest Regulation in the Executive Branch,  Congressional Research Service, Jan 17, 2014.

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Brennan knew his continued ownership of TAC/SOTERA stock was a violation of Title 18 USC  208 since February 17, 2009, when he reviewed his onboarding Financial Disclosure form SF 278 [see Appendix B, page 5] with Rachel E. Molinaro, Office of Government Ethics (see  Appendix G).233 Brennan signed his onboarding financial disclosure form,234 SF-278, and had it  reviewed by Rachel E. Molinaro of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE).235 It was on this  form (see Appendix B) that we learned Brennan was on the Board of Directors of Global  Strategies Group (North American), the company that became SOTERA Defense Industries,  Inc., with a salary of $763,000 (Appendix B).236 Brennan’s SF-278 valued his The Analysis  Corporation 401K account as being worth between $50,001 and $100,000. However, OGE  Representative Molinaro put a handwritten note on Schedule C of the SF-278 that read “…** per  the filer, in the process of rolling over Analysis Corp 401k into IRA. – REM 02.17.09…”.237 238 

The filer of course was John Brennan. “REM” on the form is Rachel E. Molinaro, an Office of  Government Ethics (OGE) representative who was assigned by the White House to help Brennan  file his onboarding SF-278 correctly [Appendix B]. Ms. Molinaro was the subject matter expert  (SME) on what privately owned assets constitute a Conflict-of-Interest violation for a new  executive branch employee like Brennan. The purpose of executive branch employees (i.e.  Brennan) filing Personal Financial Disclosure Forms (SF-278s) is to prevent Conflicts of Interest  violations.  

Based on Ms. Molinaro’s handwritten note on Brennan’s SF-278 it was clear to her, the SME on  Government Ethics, the contents of Brennan’s TAC 401K account constituted a Conflict of  Interest for Brennan. Ms. Molinaro (“REM”) made Brennan aware of this Conflict-of-Interest problem based on the content of her note. Obviously, if you are the National Security Advisor  for Counterterrorism to the President of the United States, then as noted previously, any decision,  recommendation, statement, action, etc. you make can be reasonably expected to affect how  much money the US Government provides to the indispensable government contractor TAC and  will increase the value of any stock you own in the indispensable government contractor. This is  government ethics 101. 

Brennan’s response to this Conflict-of-Interest problem is telling – he lied. Brennan, the lying  liar, lied to the OGE official helping him avoid Conflicts of Interest. Brennan misled Ms.  Molinaro, OGE, by telling her he was “…in the process of rolling over Analysis Corp 401k into  IRA…” With this false caveat by Brennan, Ms. Molinaro made her notation and approved the  SF-278 for submission to the Obama Administration. 

233 John O. Brennan, Executive Branch Personal Financial Disclosure (SF-278); dated Feb 17, 2009;  

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Brennan.pdf 

234 https://engineeringevil.com/2013/02/10/intel-firm-paid-cia-nominee-well-as-he-left-for-white-house/ 

235 John O. Brennan, Executive Branch Personal Financial Disclosure (SF-278); dated Feb 17, 2009;  

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Brennan.pdf 

236 Ibid. 

237 Ibid. 

238http://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/financial_disclosures/Brennan_John_278.PDF?_ga=2.100554270.1012219008.1608131919- 559004040.1608131915

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Here is where we can show Brennan intentionally violated the law. The provisions of rolling  over the contents of a 401K account into an IRA require the liquidation of all the assets held in  the 401k for cash. The cash is what is transferred into the IRA, not the former contents (stock,  bonds, etc.) of the 401K account. Any stocks held in the 401K must be sold for cash and the  401K account holder would no longer own those stocks. Brennan would lose out on the benefit  of owning pre-IPO shares of stock in the very company he was hired to organize in preparation  for the IPO.  

Pre-IPO shares of stocks are the ones where the owner makes a boatload of money in owning the  shares; especially if there is a stock split prior to the IPO. In the case of TAC/SOTERA the stock  split was 60,000 to one.239 You read that right – for each share of pre-IPO stock a person held,  they received 60,000 new shares prior to the IPO.240 We have established that Brennan owned  25,001 shares of TAC stock in his TAC 401K account. The same TAC 401K account he listed  on his onboarding SF-278 and the one he apparently told Ms. Molinaro he would rollover into an  IRA. With the IPO process underway when Brennan joined the Obama Administration, he stood  to gain 60,000 times his 25,001 shares of pre-IPO shares in the stock split. Under the terms of  the IPO under consideration by the SEC, Brennan would have held over 1.5 billion shares of  TAC stock in his 401K account from the stock split prior to the IPO! If he liquidated his 25,001  shares in the 401K to rollover this 401K into an IRA, as he told Ms. Molinaro he would, Brennan would not own any pre-IPO shares. Working for the President is a great honor and all, but  Brennan was not going to give up the chance to be a billionaire to do so. 

Brennan, true to his history of dishonest behavior, decided the law does not apply to him and lied  to Ms. Molinaro, causing her to make a False Official Statement on Brennan’s SF-278. The  False Official Statement law addresses anyone who intentionally makes, or causes to be made, a  false statement of a material fact. Brennan caused Ms. Molinaro to make a false statement of a  material fact: the filer [Brennan] was in the process of rolling over the TAC 401K into an IRA to  eliminate the Conflict-of-Interest problem. Brennan knew he had too much money to lose by  selling his TAC stock and so… he lied. With his first Executive Branch Personal Financial  Disclosure form (SF-278) Brennan attained a two-fer: 1 count False Official Statement, and 1  count Conflict of Interest. 

Unfortunately for Brennan, he did not become a billionaire due to the pre-IPO stock split. The  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was shocked by the request for a 60,000 to 1 stock  split plan. The SEC informed the company this ridiculous and unheard-of stock split ratio  (60,000 to 1) would cause extreme distortion to the company’s balance sheet and the SEC forbid  it. The back-and-forth correspondence between the SEC and TAC/Global/SOTERA is actually  pretty funny to read. The upshot was the SEC would not approve the IPO if it meant stock held  in employee, and former employee, 401K accounts received the same stock split.  To assuage the SEC’s concerns the company modified their IPO plan. 

“…Maximum Shares and Award Limits. Under the Plan, the maximum number  of shares of common stock that may be subject to awards is 1,000,000, including  

239 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm 

240 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509217559/ds1a.htm ; pg. 5

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the 492,127 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of options granted  under the SFA Plan and assumed under the Plan. The number of shares of  common stock allocated to the Plan shall automatically increase at the beginning  of each fiscal year by a number equal to the lesser of 1.5% of the Company’s  shares of outstanding common stock, 125,000 shares of common stock and an  amount determined by the Administrator. No one participant may receive awards  for more than 200,000 shares of common stock in any one calendar year.….”241 242 

To obtain SEC approval, the company decided that no employee, or former employee, no matter  how many shares they held in the TAC 401K account prior to the IPO, would receive more than  200,000 shares of common stock during the stock split. Brennan’s 25,001 shares in his 401K  only increased to 200,000 shares in his account prior to the November 2009 IPO. Could it be  that Brennan missing out on joining the heady ranks of Billionaires like Warren Buffet, Bill  Gates, and (shudder) Donald Trump, plays a role in why John Brennan hates The Donald so?  

By the way, the value of the 200,000 shares in Brennan’s TAC 401K account was reliably  calculated to be worth $13 per share on November 19, 2009 when the first TAC/SOTERA shares  (stock symbol GTEC) were sold on the NADAQ exchange.243 At $13 per share, Brennan’s TAC  401K account was valued at $2.6 million. Brennan held onto the stock, illegally, and its value  increased from a self-reported $50,000244 to an unreported $2.6 million! But Brennan now had  to hide the $2.6 million from the public on his Personal Financial Disclosure Forms. What do  you think a lying liar would do? Yup, he lied.  

Brennan’s Personal Financial Disclosure Forms for the years 2010 through 2017 showed a  marked change from his 2009 form. Brennan no longer claimed to have a TAC 401K – after all  he told the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) he was going to roll that account into an IRA. If  anyone saw the TAC 401K listed they would know he didn’t liquidate the account as promised.  To hide his duplicity, on the next seven years of Executive Branch Personal Financial Disclosure  Forms (SF-278), Brennan claimed to have a “SOTERA 401K” account instead of a TAC 401K  account.  

Brennan, apparently not the brightest bulb in the circuit didn’t explain how he had a 401K  account from a company he never worked for, SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc. One can only  obtains a 401K account from an employer and Brennan never worked for a company named  SOTERA. Each entry of “SOTERA 401K” on his 2010 through 2017 Personal Financial  Disclosure Forms was an admittance he intentionally never liquidated the assets in his TAC  401K - he just changed the name of the account to “SOTERA 401K.”  

241 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509211306/ds1a.htm 

242 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509217559/ds1a.htm 

243 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000119312509239311/d424b4.htm 244 John O. Brennan, Executive Branch Personal Financial Disclosure (SF-278); dated Feb 17, 2009;  

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Brennan.pdf

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Each entry he made of SOTERA 401K was both a Conflict-of-Interest violation and a False  Official Statement violation (remember he claimed he was going to roll this account into an IRA  and he intentionally did not). Not only that, but he misrepresented the value of his SOTERA  401K account. Brennan claimed the SOTERA 401K was only worth $250,000 on each of his  2010 through 2012 Personal Financial Disclosure Forms. However, the value of this account  was calculated at the IPO in November 2009 as approximately $2.6 million.  

The share price fluctuated near the $13 per share price until April 1, 2011, when a subsidiary of  Ares Management, Sentinel Acquisition Holdings, Inc., took SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc.  private at a price of $24.25 per share.245 Therefore, on April 1, 2011 Brennan’s SOTERA 401K  account was valued at a minimum of $4,850,000 (= 200,000 shares x $24.25). However, there  

was a caveat by Ares Management that the $24.25 per share price had to be redeemed by the  share holder within 30-days of the close of the deal, May 1, 2011.246 If a SOTERA Defense  Solutions share holder did not exchange their stock for Ares Management’s $24.25 cash offer  (via Sentinel Acquisition Holdings, Inc.) within 30-days the shares became worthless.  

This very thing, failure to redeem shares for cash on time, happened to Mr. Russell Richardson.  Richardson sold his own little computer company to SOTERA in exchange for cash and $1  million of SOTERA stock.247 Richardson did not redeem his $1 million of SOTERA Defense  Solutions, Inc. [NASDAQ: GTEC] stock within the 30-day window and it became worthless.  The reader is requested to think on the issue here – Ares Management offers twice market value  for SOTERA [NASDAQ: GTEC] stock but puts a 30-day redemption window on the sale. A  lone actor like Russell Richardson above might be too preoccupied with many different issues to  remember to redeem his shares before the 30-day window expires248 (in which case Ares  Management saved itself a $1 million). However, what is the likelihood that SOTERA Defense  Solutions, Inc.’s own 401K Administrator, Ms. Jill Waltersdorff-Rich, employed by the company and a SOTERA 401K account holder herself, would neglect to cash out the company accounts  before the 30-day window expires?  

If Ms. Waltersdorff-Rich ignored the sell-by date, she herself would lose significant value in her  own employee 401K account, as well as jeopardize company moral and possibly lose her job.  There is no way the SOTERA 401K Administrator herself would allow this to happen. We can  

245 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000095012311032487/c15093sv8pos.htm: “…[Sotera  Defense Solutions, Inc.] would become a wholly owned subsidiary of [Sentinel Acquisition Holdings, Inc] and all outstanding shares of the  common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”), other than Shares held by Parent, Merger Sub or the Company and  Shares held by stockholders of the Company who validly exercise appraisal rights under Delaware law, would be converted into the right to  receive $24.25 in cash. The Merger became effective on April 4, 2011…” 

246 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1471038/000095012311032473/c15071e8vk.htm 

247 Ken Dilanian, Associated Press, October 27, 2014; Inside Washington: Profiting From Failure, “… Russell Richardson, an engineer and  businessman, made millions as a contractor while serving as an architect of [Army software programs]… Richardson was paid more than  $13 million in 2011 after he helped sell a small military intelligence business, Potomac Fusion, to a larger intelligence contractor,  according to his financial disclosure statement and information he provided. He also received stock valued at nearly $1 million in the  buyer, Sotera Defense Solutions, he said, though he added that the stock later became worthless…”;  

https://apnews.com/166157827ca04c39aeb9910596ad24d1/inside-washington-profiting-failure 

248 https://apnews.com/166157827ca04c39aeb9910596ad24d1/inside-washington-profiting-failure

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safely assume each and every share Brennan held in his SOTERA 401K (a minimum of 200,000)  was redeemed for the full price of at least $4,850,000. Unfortunately, attempts by this author to  interview Ms. Jill Waltersdorff-Rich, 401K Administrator for SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc.,  met with negative results.  

By Brennan intentionally hiding his proprietary ownership of at least 200,000 shares of  SOTERA stock (NASDAQ: GTEC] in the SOTERA 401K account he listed on his Personal  Financial Disclosure Forms from 2010 through 2017,249 250 251 252 253 he could be sure there was  no way the SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc. 401K Administrator was going to neglect to cash  out the employee, and ex-employee, shares in their 401K accounts at $24.25 per share. By  hiding his proprietary ownership of the indispensable government contractor in his SOTERA  401K account Brennan could mislead an investigator into thinking Brennan did divest himself of  the stock (he didn’t) and Brennan could rely on the 401K Administrator of SOTERA Defense  Solutions, Inc. to ensure he captured the full $4,850,000 he was owed by Ares Management. Brennan hiding his proprietary ownership in this manner is prima facie evidence of criminal  intent. 

To recap this chapter, Brennan was hired to organize the IPO for TAC. Brennan was initially  rewarded for his efforts with over 25,000 shares in the company in his 401K account. Brennan  left TAC while the process for the IPO was ongoing and became the NSA for Counterterrorism  for the President. Brennan misled an OGE official about maintain ownership of shares of the  company – causing a False Official Statement violation to occur. By not disposing of the  company shares as promised Brennan was knowingly in a Conflict of Interest vis-à-vis his job in  the White House. Some months after Brennan left the company, the number of shares in his  401K account was increased to 200,000. The IPO was held in November 2009 with a price per  share around $13, increasing the value of Brennan’s 401K account from $50,000 to $2,600,000. In April 2011 the company Brennan owns stock in, SOTERA Defense Solutions, is taken private  at $24.25 per share and Brennan’s SOTERA 401K account is now worth $4,4850,000. During  the entire time Brennan worked for the Obama White House, from 2009 through January 2017,  he maintained proprietary ownership of an indispensable government contractor, SOTERA  Defense Solutions, in clear violation of Conflict-of-Interest laws.  

We have established that Brennan was a dishonest government official who lied on some forms  and violated conflicts of interest. The above recap of criminal behavior does not rise to the level  of “…providing aid and comfort to the enemy…” These are all just some process crimes (False  

Official Statements) and Conflicts of Interest, right? Uh… no. Closer scrutiny reveals the  increase in stock valuation detailed above is related to the indispensable government contractor (SOTERA) not preventing terror attacks it should have prevented.  

249 http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Brennan.pdf 

250 John O. BRENNAN , 2014 OGE Form 278, signed 5/15/2014 

251 John O. BRENNAN , 2015 OGE Form e278; signed 5/12/2015, OGE accepted 6/11/2015 

252 John O. BRENNAN , Financial Disclosure Form 278e, dated 7/19/2016; “…BRENNAN financial disclosure Form 278e, Line 1 reveals he  still has a 401K account with Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., and indicated he had between $100,001 and $250,000 in this account and he claims  it is an Excepted Investment Fund. Carrie Truehart, OGE, and Emory Rounds, OGE, certified the form is in compliance with the law…” 253http://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/financial_disclosures/Brennan_John_278.PDF?_ga=2.100554270.1012219008.1608131919- 559004040.1608131915

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Closer scrutiny reveals that attacks, that should have been prevented, terrorized Americans into  clamoring for Congress to allocate more funding to prevent terror attacks; sending more money  to the indispensable government contractor; which increased the indispensable government  contractor’s share price – making John Brennan a millionaire. Wow, that is some next level  strategic planning if this is true. Is there any evidence the indispensable government contractor (SOTERA) did not prevent terror attacks it should have prevented?  

Sadly yes, and John Brennan’s fingerprints are all over the evidence.

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Chapter 6: The National Counterterrorism Center  (NCTC). 

As noted previously, during his annual State of the Union address on January 28, 2003, President  George W. Bush directed the US Intelligence Community to  

“…develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center [TTIC] to merge and analyze all threat  information in a single location...”254  

Brennan, as former head of terrorism analysis in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, with years  of experience with NE/SA “Islamic mercenaries”, and with two months remaining in his tour as  Deputy Executive Director of the CIA, would seem to be a logical choice to head this new TTIC.  Consequently, John Brennan was named the new Director of TTIC. According to the  

Department of Homeland Security website,  

“…On May 1, 2003 the TTIC opened its doors. John O. Brennan, Director TTIC, filled its ranks  with approximately three dozen detailees from across the US Government (USG) and was  mandated to integrate CT capabilities and missions across the government...”255  

For the reader who does not speak ‘Washington-DC-speak,’ a “detailee” is a fulltime employee  of one federal agency who has been temporarily assigned to work fulltime at a different  government agency. The new agency pays the detailees’ salary and benefits out of the new  agency’s budget, etc. while the employee holds onto the job title and pay grade of the agency  they are detailed from.  

For example, the House of Representatives kay form a “Select Committee” to investigate some issue and the Select Committee needs FBI agents as their investigators. The FBI agents are  detailed to Congress for a period and the agents’ salaries and benefits come out of Congress’s  budget, not the FBI’s budget – while the FBI Agents retain their badge, guns, and arrest  authority. In the TTIC’s case, Brennan took about 3-dozen employees from other agencies and  had them assigned to TTIC. One such detailee was Michael Jones, a State Department  Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent. Jones began his career at State as an Intelligence  Analyst circa 2002 and was promoted to DSS agent in 2009.256 

Brennan himself stated, “… The idea behind TTIC was that we needed to have someplace in the government where all counterterrorism information would reside [emphasis added]. Eventually, information from all 26 classified and unclassified networks flowed into  TTIC…[TTIC]  

wanted voyeuristic capability [into the activities and records] of the entire Intelligence  Community. The good news and the bad news: [TTIC] had more access to 

254 History (dni.gov); https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history; retrieved 9/26/2023. 255 https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history 

256 https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-jones-88a4b783/ ;retrieved prior to July 1, 2021.

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more information than anywhere in the government [emphasis added]…”257 258 In effect,  Brennan used the TTIC to establish a Counterterrorism Intelligence Monopoly (CT Intel  Monopoly).  

On August 27, 2004, President George W. Bush converted TTIC into the National  Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) via executive order 13354.259 260 President Bush gave the  NCTC two core missions:  

1. to serve as the primary organization in the U.S. Government for analysis and integration  of all terrorism intelligence, and 

2. to conduct strategic operational planning (SOP) for counterterrorism activities integrating  all elements of U.S. national power.261 

Brennan continued as the Director of TTIC as it transitioned into the NCTC, and then Brennan  was appointed the interim Director of NCTC on October 27, 2004. 262 263 264 Under Brennan’s  leadership the TTIC, and then the NCTC, “… [had] the responsibility to provide integrated  assessments of the terrorist threat; for example, when there are Principals Committee meeting  (sic) or Deputies Committee meetings or the president needs to be briefed on something about  the terrorist threat, TTIC [later the NCTC] represents the view from throughout the  community…that is sort of a unique responsibility that we have on behalf of those partner  agencies [emphasis added]…”265  

Brennan was able to establish the ‘CT Intel monopoly’ from the intake of raw intelligence  information all the way up to the Office of the President of the United States. Brennan stated,  “… [NCTC] is the mission manager on for [sic] the [entire Intelligence] community as far as  the collection requirement system is concerned. We… play a lead role; we work with the other  agencies and departments to determine the national intelligence priorities framework  [emphasis added]…”266  

257“Intelligence Transformation and the Impact on Counterterrorism Programs” Presentation by John Brennan, President and  CEO, The Analysis Corporation, Oct 18, 2006, reported by Stephanie Kaplan; 

http://web.mit.edu/SSP/seminars/wed_archives06fall/BRENNAN.htm 

258 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, published in Studies in Intelligence Vol. 48, No. 4, dated Mar 12, 2003, and  declassified on Sep 3, 2014, Document number C05618307,  

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf ; see also https://ia600906.us.archive.org/10/items/CIA Studies-In-Intelligence-Declassified/DOC_0005618307.pdf 

259 https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-who-we-are/history 

260 Intelligence Community OIG Unclassified Report on Boston Marathon Bombings, Page 6;  

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2014/s1404.pdf 

261 John Scott Redd, Adm. USN (Ret.) Wikipedia entry retrieved Mar 2, 2021; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scott_Redd 262 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, published in Studies in Intelligence Vol. 48, No. 4, dated Mar 12, 2003, and  declassified on Sep 3, 2014, Document number C05618307, 

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf ; see also https://ia600906.us.archive.org/10/items/CIA Studies-In-Intelligence-Declassified/DOC_0005618307.pdf 

263 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/john-BRENNAN  

264 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, Mar 12, 2003 (supra)  

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 

265 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, Mar 12, 2003 (supra)  

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 

266 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, Mar 12, 2003 (supra)  

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf.

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In the above statements, Brennan clearly described how his new agency was the mission  manager for collection requirements for the entire intelligence community. The mission  manager (NCTC) directs what information is collected by ALL other intelligence agencies (for  example, the NSA) for Counterterrorism purposes; and then, the NCTC can determine to whom  that collected information is provided. Brennan, by virtue of President Bush’s executive order, obtained the authority for NCTC personnel to compel NSA personnel to comply with NCTC’s  “requests” with regards to counterterrorism issues. If an NCTC analyst wanted the NSA to  gather all Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) data the NSA collected on a particular person (the  target) and place all the target’s data into a TS/SCI Codeword compartment, the NSA had to  comply because NCTC was the mission manager.  

For example, an NCTC analyst could send a “request” (i.e. an order) to the NSA compelling the  NSA to scour its collection of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) for information related to a  particular target, and then order the NSA to place all the SIGINT data about the target into a  TS/SCI Codeword compartment. The NSA must comply with the directive (request) of the  mission manager. Once the data was placed in the TS/SCI Codeword compartment even the  NSA itself would not be allowed to view that data ever again without the permission of the  analyst who set up the Codeword compartment.  

In fact, under TS/SCI security protocols, the NSA is not allowed to even acknowledge such data  ever existed at all. The NCTC analyst who established the TS/SCI Compartment is the sole  individual who can authorized the NSA to disclose the existence of such data to anyone.  Without the analyst’s determination a need-to-know exists, the NSA could not disclose the  existence of such data to an authorized Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigator, a criminal  investigator, or even a Congressional committee. Unless the analyst determines a need-to-know  not even the House or Senate Intelligence Committees can force the NSA to disclose the  information in the Codeword compartment. 

As reported in the OIG Unclassified Report on Boston Marathon Bombings, the Intelligence Community OIGs formed a task force to investigate how [the] Tsarnaev’s (sic) could carry out attack if they were on the watchlist. “…We focused our review on the entities that were the most likely to have had information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev prior to the bombings – the FBI, the CIA, DHS, and NCTC, which maintains the U.S. government’s database of classified identifying and substantive derogatory information on known or suspected terrorists. We also requested other federal agencies to identify relevant information they may have had prior to the bombings. These agencies included the 

Department of Defense (including the National Security Agency (NSA)), Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Department of Energy, and the Drug Enforcement Administration…”267  “…The relationships between and among these agencies are governed by memoranda of understanding  (MOU). Of particular relevance to this review are the relationships between the FBI, CIA, and DHS, as well as the relationship between the FBI and the NSA, and the NCTC’s relationships throughout the Intelligence Community…”268 

267 OIG Unclassified Report on Boston Marathon Bombings; https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2014/s1404.pdf 

268 OIG Unclassified Report on Boston Marathon Bombings; https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2014/s1404.pdf

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The reader’s attention is called to the fact the OIG’s report specifically mentions the  relationships governed by MOUs between the NCTC and the FBI, CIA DHS, and the NSA. This  citation indicates the NCTC relationships throughout the Intelligence Community is one of  superior to subordinate organization – as described by Brennan, where the NCTC is the  Counterterrorism Mission Manager for the entire intelligence community.269 This is the exact same scenario we found in January 2000 when the CIA knew two 9/11 hijackers  (Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi) entered the United States, but then prevented two FBI  Supervisory Special Agents Mark Rossini (aka “Malcolm”)270 and SSA Doug Miller (aka  “Dwight”),271 both of whom were assigned to the CIA’s bin Laden Station (also known as ALEC  Station) at CIAHQ, from alerting the FBI the Al-Qaeda terrorists Al-Midhar and Al-Hazmi  entered the United States.272 273 The CIA ‘ran in front of’ the FBI investigation of two 9/11  terrorists, prevented the FBI from investigating the two terrorists, and allowed 9/11 to occur.  With the improvements in control over counterterrorism intelligence (the CT Intel Monopoly)  enabled by Brennan, the NCTC could front-run both CIA operations and FBI investigations and  allow certain terrorist attacks to occur… How… fortuitous for owners of stock in companies  that would get a big boost in funding following the terror attacks. 

Brennan himself provided the following observations to describe the depth of penetration the  NCTC’s “CT Intel monopoly” had into FBI and CIA internal records, communications, and  information systems: 

Brennan, “…The FBI has the responsibility for working with local law enforcement as far as  getting information that is relevant to the terrorist threat…The FBI puts all that information into  its databases and information systems, and the [NCTC] has unfettered access to those FBI  systems....”274 “…Data does not have to be pushed to us by the FBI or other organizations.  That’s the great thing about [NCTC], we don’t have to rely on CIA or FBI or others to package  up information and send it to us. We have full real-time visibility into their information systems  and databases. So anything that’s committed to an electron in the FBI system or the CIA  system, we have real-time access to it [emphasis added]…”275 

And  

“…we at [NCTC] have full and unfettered access to [CIA Directorate of Operations  (DO)] information systems, DO cable traffic and DO databases [emphasis added]…”276  

269 “…TTIC is the mission manager on terrorism for the [Intelligence] community as far as the collection requirement system is concerned. We  do play a lead role; we work with the other agencies and departments to determine the national intelligence priorities framework…” “An  interview with TTIC Director John Brennan”; Studies In Intelligence; Vol 48, No. 4, with Paul Johnson, Editor Studies in Intelligence, interview  date July 21, 2004; https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 

270 U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, A Review of FBI’s Handling of Intelligence Information Related to the September 11  Attacks (November 2004), pages 233-357. 

271 Ibid. 

272 Jeff Stein, Newsweek, “FBI Agent: The CIA Could Have Stopped 9/11”; June19, 2015. 

273 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky#Blocking_intelligence_sharing_before_September_11,_2001 274 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, Mar 12, 2003 (supra)  

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 

275 Ibid. 

276 Ibid.

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And 

“…DHS analysts [working at NCTC] have visibility into the CIA and FBI databases and  information systems, and if [our analysts] see anything that is of relevance to the  Department of Homeland Security that has not yet been formally disseminated, we have  mechanisms in place that allow that analysts (sic) to go back to CIA or the FBI and say,  “you may not realize this, but this information is important…”277 

The significance of John Brennan’s statements in the above three paragraphs: 1. Simultaneous Notification: NCTC personnel receive FBI and CIA communications at the  exact same moment that FBIHQ or CIAHQ receive the same communication!  

2. NCTC analysts can peruse the contents of FBI and CIA databases and electronic  communications at will, in real time, without FBI or CIA oversight.  

3. The NCTC analysts can monitor the status of FBI/CIA investigations by reviewing any  updates to FBI or CIA record systems for new information collected by either agency  without either agency’s awareness.  

4. The NCTC analyst has HAVE NO OBLIGATION to reveal to either agency what NCTC  personnel reviewed in either agency’s files, or what importance the NCTC personnel  attached to the information they found!  

The NCTC was eventually made the Mission Manager for all Counterterrorism efforts by the  US. As Mission Manager the NCTC was given the authority to direct all other intelligence  agencies’ counterterrorism activities. ‘Hey FBI, you must do this with your Guardian  investigations of a suspected terrorist in the U.S.’ ‘Hey NSA, you must do this with the data you  are collecting worldwide.’  

Think on this Mission Manager position for few moments… The NCTC can order/demand/direct the CIA, the Department of Defense, the FBI, or the NSA to engage in some Counterterrorism  activity and those other agencies must comply. If the NCTC directed the FBI to cease  investigating a suspected terrorist (perhaps because the CIA is attempting to recruit that suspect  as a human asset), then the FBI must comply. 

The authorities Brennan established as Director NCTC allows any NCTC analyst to front-run  FBI or CIA CT investigations or operations without either agency’s knowledge! NCTC  personnel receive a copy of the first message about a person-of-interest at the same moment the  message arrives at FBIHQ or CIAHQ! NCTC personnel can use this unprecedented access to  sister agency communication systems to “spot” a person-of-interest in FBI or CIA  communications before either FBIHQ or CIAHQ are even able to assign an employee to review  the information in their copy of the same message. The term we will use for this duplicate  messaging is “simultaneous notification.” 

With simultaneous notification of FBI or CIA communications, before either agency can take  investigative action, an NCTC analyst can send an order to the NSA to: 1. scour its SIGINT  

277 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, Mar 12, 2003 (supra)  

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf.

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databases for all references to the person-of-interest, and 2. have all data thus identified placed in  a TS/SCI Codeword compartment. Then, when the assigned FBI or CIA employee attempts to  gather information from the NSA about the target, the NSA must tell the FBI/CIA employee the  NSA has no information regarding the target - because all the NSA’s data was already hidden  away in the Codeword compartment! Under the security protocols of Codeword compartments  even the NSA doesn’t know what data it has that might be related to the target! The data didn’t  slip into a crack – it was shoved into a locked box known as a Codeword compartment! 

Under the security protocols required for TS/SCI Codeword compartments, the NCTC can then  restrict access to the information in the Codeword compartment to a strict need-to-know basis.  TS/SCI Codeword security protocols prohibit the NSA from informing the inquiring FBI or CIA  personnel of the existence of the Codeword compartment, let alone the existence of data they are  looking for. If one wishes to front-run counterterrorism investigations, this NCTC TS/SCI  Codeword gig is much more efficient (and difficult to detect) than having to order FBI  Supervisory Special Agents to keep their mouths shut as happened with the 9/11 attacks. 

Even an Agent of an Office of the Inspector General (OIG), conducting a fully authorized  investigation which should include the sequestered data, cannot review the contents of the  TS/SCI Codeword compartment without the NCTC analyst determining he has a ‘need-to-know.’  In fact, the OIG Agent cannot even be informed of the existence of the Codeword compartment  (where the sequestered data is hidden) all unless the NCTC analyst who established the  Codeword compartment determines the OIG Agent has a ‘need-to-know.’ The NCTC analyst  alone determines if the OIG Agent allowed to know of the existence of compartment where the  analyst hid the data. That is some awesome information control power right there. Later  chapters in this book will show this TS/SCI process was used to allow three terrorist attacks to  succeed against the United States, and its ally, with deadly results.

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Chapter 7: How to Front Run Counterterrorism  investigations for Profit. 

Front-running counterterrorism investigations by the NCTC can be shown to have occurred in at  least three significant international terrorism events:  

1. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab – the ‘Underwear’ bomber of Northwest Flight 253 in December  2009, 

2. Anders Breivik – the Norwegian terrorist who attempted to decapitate the government of our  NATO ally Norway on July 22, 2011, while Norway had troops fighting for the United States in  Afghanistan under Article 5 of the NATO treaty, and 

3. the Boston Marathon Bombing by Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in  April 2013. 

It can be argued that front-running a CT investigation may possibly be done for justifiable  national security reasons. For example, front-running a CT investigation may be done during the  recruitment of an agent to penetrate a terrorist organization. In this case, it would not be  beneficial for the FBI to actively investigate someone at the same time the CIA is attempting to  recruit that same person to penetrate a terror group overseas. The FBI investigation may expose  the agent’s contact with the CIA recruiter and jeopardize the operation.  

To prevent this problem, when the CIA is operating within the borders of the United States, there  are established deconfliction protocols the CIA and FBI have agreed to in such cases. When one  party refuses to abide by the deconfliction protocols, that party’s credibility regarding its actual  motives becomes suspect. One suspect motive displayed in countless books and movies is a  rogue CIA operative using agent recruitment to profit from drug trafficking or gun running.  However, there are other, more sophisticated ways for rogue operatives to misuse the legal  authority the American people granted them…  

Rogue operatives need to hide their ‘rogue’ operation from the FBI, and the American people, if  the ‘bad op” is to make them a profit. The ‘bad op’ is a criminal scheme, and it takes criminal  investigative techniques to identity the scheme and the rogue operatives who carry it out. One of  the tried-and-true methods to identify a criminal scheme is identifying Means, Motive, and  Opportunity. Means, Motive and Opportunity are not the only proof needed to convict a rogue  operative in a court of law, but identifying these three characteristics points the investigator at  the most likely participants in the scheme and can eliminate other suspects. If you don’t have the  means to carry out the crime (i.e., you never had the gun used to shoot the victim), then you  could not commit the crime. If you have a solid alibi (i.e., you were not in that city when the  item was stolen), then you didn’t commit the crime. 

The criminal scheme we are trying to uncover is extremely sophisticated – “front-running-a counterterrorism-investigation-for-profit”. Counterterrorism is one of the priorities of U.S.  National Security and has literally hundreds of thousands of participants. One must fool all those  hundreds of thousands of dedicated public servants and overcome all the innumerable laws and  regulations put in place to prevent terrorist attacks, to succeed – that is a tall order. Only a small 

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number of persons would have the MEANS, MOTIVE and OPPORTUNITY to pull it off. By  identifying the MEANS, MOTIVE and OPPORTUNITY we can focus in on who our villain is. 

MEANS: To front-run-a-CT-investigation-for-profit one must obtain a monopoly on all  counterterrorism information throughout the U.S. government. We will call this monopoly the  “CT Intel Monopoly,” for lack of a better description. The CT Intel Monopoly should extend  from the very first moment any US agency learns of a potential terrorist’s identity, through the  terrorist’s preparations for the attack, and up to the moment the terrorist strikes.  

Brennan himself told us,  

“…The FBI puts all that information [from domestic sources] into its databases and information  systems, and the [NCTC] has unfettered access to those FBI systems....”278 “…We have full real time visibility into their information systems and databases. So anything that’s committed to an  electron in the FBI system or the CIA system, we have real-time access to it…”279 And, “…we at  [NCTC] have full and unfettered access to [CIA Directorate of Operations (DO)] information  systems, DO cable traffic and DO databases…”280  

Brennan himself told us NCTC received simultaneous notification of all terrorism related  communications in both the FBI and CIA communication systems. Brennan further stated  “…eventually, information from all 26 classified and unclassified networks flowed into  [NCTC]…[NCTC] had more access to more information than anywhere in the government…”281 282  

A CT Intel Monopoly must also be able to control access to key terrorism related information so  that persons or entities that might stop the attack you desire are prevented from interfering with  the attack. Intentionally hindering the FBI from stopping a terror attack by withholding key  information is the definition of ‘providing aid and comfort’ to the enemy – Treason. Any front  running of a CT investigation for profit must prevent the FBI from finding out you intentionally  withheld the information from them. Therefore, the information access control must be done in  such a manner that it appears to have happened with good motives, and the access control should  be of such a nature that the other interested parties are unlikely to determine the key information  you withheld existed at all.  

The information security protocol used to reduce the number of people aware of any information  to the absolute minimum is called Top Secret / Special Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) Codeword. TS/SCI Codeword compartment protocols require anyone who is “read into” the  Codeword compartment must have a TS/SCI security clearance and a demonstrated “need to  know” the information in the compartment. The kicker is the person who determines who has “a  need to know” is the person who established the Codeword compartment.  

278 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, Mar 12, 2003 (supra) https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 279 Ibid. 

280 Ibid. 

281“Intelligence Transformation and the Impact on Counterterrorism Programs” Presentation by John Brennan, President and CEO, The Analysis  Corporation, Oct 18, 2006, reported by Stephanie Kaplan; http://web.mit.edu/SSP/seminars/wed_archives06fall/BRENNAN.htm 282 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, published in Studies in Intelligence Vol. 48, No. 4, dated Mar 12, 2003, and declassified on  Sep 3, 2014, Document number C05618307, https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf ; see also  https://ia600906.us.archive.org/10/items/CIA-Studies-In-Intelligence-Declassified/DOC_0005618307.pdf

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The exact procedures to establish a Codeword compartment are not known to this author, but it is  logical to assume that to limit the number of people who know of the compartments existence the  minimum number would be two – the person who established the compartment and a supervisor of some sort. In the case of the front-running-a-CT-investigation-for-profit scenario a clever, but  corrupt supervisor might authorize an unwitting accomplice, for example a subordinate NCTC  Analyst, to open a Codeword compartment immediately upon learning of a new suspected  terrorist; with the caveat of just notifying the (corrupt) supervisor later. In this scenario, an  unwitting NCTC Analyst could start sequestering the key information via Codeword  compartment protocols even before the corrupt supervisor knew about the target himself. And  the Analyst would be unaware he was even participating in a front-running-a-CT-investigation for-profit operation. 

Let’s assume we have an unscrupulous supervisor (Brennan) and an unwitting NCTC analyst who is overawed by the fact he was chosen by the former NCTC Director and now Advisor to  the President (Brennan) to be this exalted individual’s key intelligence analyst. The NCTC  analyst, due to NCTC’s simultaneous notification of FBI communications, receives a copy of a  message from the FBI LEGAT Moscow to FBIHQ that Tamerlan Tsarnaev is a suspected  terrorist. Due to prior guidance from his unscrupulous supervisor (Brennan) the NCTC Analyst  immediately checks all 26 databases of the entire U.S. Intelligence Community for any Tsarnaev  references. Within a few minutes the analyst finds a huge number of “hits” on Tsarnaev in those  databases.  

Using the authority the unscrupulous supervisor previously delegated to him to open TS/SCI  compartments, the NCTC Analyst opens a new TS/SCI Codeword compartment on Tsarnaev.  Next, using the authority NCTC has as America’s CT Mission Manager, the unwitting analyst  directs the NSA to scour their SIGINT databases for all information related to Tsarnaev and to  place any references found into the TS/SCI compartment the analyst just opened. This whole  process could take as few as 15 minutes if the Analyst is appropriately skilled.  

As noted earlier, TS/SCI security protocols prohibit the NSA from informing anyone of the  existence of the Codeword compartment or any information in the compartment. By the time the  FBI Case Agent assigned to conduct a Guardian assessment on Tsarnaev even completed writing  the memo justifying opening Tsarnaev’s Guardian assessment, all NSA SIGINT on Tsarnaev  would become unavailable for review by the case agent – it would be in the Codeword  compartment the NCTC analyst opened. And the NSA would not be allowed to inform the FBI  Case Agent the Codeword compartment even existed due to TS/SCI security protocols. In the  chapter entitled Boston Marathon Bombing the existence of Tsarnaev SIGINT, and its  sequestration away from the FBI, will be revealed in greater detail.  

So far under MEANS we have shown there is a distinct possibility that an NCTC analyst could  unwittingly front-run-a-CT-investigation-for-profit for an unscrupulous supervisor (Brennan).  However, front-running-a-CT-investigation-for-profit is extremely risky due to the involvement  of such large and capable organizations like the FBI or the CIA. Either organization might have  independent sources that could provide them sufficient information to foil the terror attack our  villain needs to turn a profit. 

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How could one control for the independent sources of the FBI or the CIA? As John Brennan told  us, the NCTC has completely “unfettered access” to FBI and CIA databases and communication  systems. The NCTC Analyst can observe the progress of either entity’s CT investigation or  operation, in real-time,283 without their knowledge, by simply monitoring either agency’s  information systems remotely. With that “unfettered access” to FBI and CIA information systems, the front-running-a-CT-investigation-for-profit scam can ensure there are no surprises  by either agency.284 

Bypassing Physical Security Checkpoints 

A second attribute of MEANS our villain needs for the success of the front-running-a-CT investigation-for-profit scheme is the ability to manipulate/control information in key security  agencies’ databases. After all, for your chosen terrorist to succeed he is going to have to pass  through some physical security checkpoints here and there. Those check points were set up to  prevent terror attacks. Our villain must have the MEANS to aid the terrorist in avoiding  exposure at these physical security check points.  

Our villain would need the MEANS to hack into and change key data in federal law enforcement  agencies’ computer systems; without the host agency becoming aware. The reader might  exclaim – that is impossible! But the reader would be wrong. One of the physical security  checkpoints established to prevent terror attacks are the Customs and Border Protection (CBP)  officers at airports. These officers use the CBP database system known as TECS when screening  travelers entering or leaving our country.285 The TECS system is a federal law enforcement  database that is used to place stop notices against terror suspects, like Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the  Boston Marathon Bomber.286 Our villain would need to hack into and manipulate data in the  TECS system to succeed. 

Penetrating a federal law enforcement agency’s data system is extremely difficult. Each agency  employs hundreds of cyber security experts whose job it is to prevent such penetrations. Of  course, if the President authorizes placing “back door” computer code into an Executive Branch  agency like CBP, it can be done. With Presidential authorization such back door code can exist  and the host agency’s own cyber security people would not know it. If we could show such back  door code existed in CBP systems, then manipulating the data in those “secure” systems would  be much easier.287 One reason the President might authorize “back doors” in a federal law  enforcement security checkpoint systems, like the TECS system, without the knowledge of that  agency’s cyber security personnel is to provide what is known as “Signature Reduction.”288  

283 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, Mar 12, 2003 (supra) https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf 284 Ibid. “…So anything that’s committed to an electron in the FBI system or the CIA system, we have real-time access to it…” 285 The Road to Boston, Counterterrorism Challenges and Lessons from the Marathon Bombings, House Homeland Security Committee Report.  March 2014. TECS is owned and managed by CBP and is its principal law enforcement and anti-terrorism database. TECS is established as an  overarching law enforcement information collection, analysis, and sharing environment TECS contains Department of Homeland Security (OHS)  immigration data, as well as information from other government, criminal and terrorism databases, including information from the Terrorist  Screening Database (frequently referred to as "the watchlist" or TSDB). 

286 Ibid. 

287 William M. Arkin, Newsweek, “Exclusive: Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army,” May 17, 2021. ”...The largest undercover force  the world has ever known is the one created by the [Dept of Defense] over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army,  many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than ten times  the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover,  in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies…” 288 Ibid.

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Anyone can imagine a scenario where a good-guy is traveling undercover on behalf of America to kill or capture a “bad guy.” No patriotic American wants that good-guy being stopped by CBP  when he was returning from his mission. Would you want the guy who just killed Osama bin  Laden to be arrested because he is using a false passport that has the same name as a guy on the  Terrorist Watch List? Of course not. That is called Signature Reduction. In that case, it makes  sense that the President would authorize back-door access to CBP’s TECS system to  manipulate/change data.289 This particular back-door is to help the good-guys. In fact, the  Pentagon has an office whose job is to hack into the TECS database and enable good-guys to  bypass CBP screening at U.S. airports. That office is called the Defense Department’s Special  Operations/ Low-Intensity Conflicts and Interdependent Capabilities (SOLIC/IC).290 

If our villain, who is front-running-a-CT-investigation-for-profit, was able to use this “Signature  Reduction” capability to further his schemes it would be disastrous for our country, but it would  enable him to provide aid to an enemy more easily. But, come on, what are the chances our  villain would have: 

1. the MEANS to guide a NCTC Analyst to sequester key data at the NSA into a TS/SCI  Codeword compartment,  

AND  

2. the MEANS to provide “Signature Reduction” in CBP’s TECS system to facilitate a terrorist avoiding CBP scrutiny at the airport? We would have to prove a connection between Brennan,  an NCTC analyst, and a key player in SOLIC/IC to meet this criterion. Can we prove such a  connection? Si se peude!  

John Brennan set up the NCTC and personally chose the first three dozen intelligence analyst291 detailees; undoubtedly at least one from the State Department. We can prove the MEANS of  SIGINT data sequestering by virtue of NCTC’s Mission Manager status. Is there also a provable  connection between John Brennan and the “Signature Reduction” personnel at the Department  of Defense? Does this connection between Brennan and the “Signature Reduction” person have  a proven connection with the NCTC Analyst who we believe set up the TS/SCI Codeword  compartment to hide NSA SIGINT on Tsarnaev? What is the probability of Brennan being  connected to both persons regarding the Boston Marathon Bombing?  

See the Boston Marathon Bombing chapter for more details. 

MOTIVE: To front-run-a-CT-investigation-for-profit one must first own an asset that will  significantly increase in value because of a terror attack. Getting the asset for free before the  attack occurs would ensure the greatest increase in the value of the asset for the asset holder – our villain. Employees of start-up companies received shares of stock and stock options prior to  an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the stock to reward them for supporting the company. In the  case of an existing company that decides to “go public” with a stock sale there are some  

289 Ibid. 

290 Ibid. 

291 An Interview with TTIC Director John Brennan, Mar 12, 2003 (supra) https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005618307.pdf

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additional regulatory steps to take, but the process is very similar. One means of establishing a  motive would be to find a person who obtained shares of stock prior to the terror attacks in  question and determine if the person still owned the stock when its price peaked after the attack.  

Added support to establish MOTIVE would be if the person – our villain, could be shown to  have intentionally sought to hide his stock ownership from prying eyes before and after the  attack. Intentionally hiding ownership of the asset by subterfuge (false statements) from lawful  authority when that authority explicitly informed you that owning that asset (stock in a particular  company) violated conflict of interest regulations is a very clear indication of guilt.  

Brennan’s Executive Branch Personal Financial Disclosure form (SF-278) proves he held shares  of The Analysis Corporation (TAC) in his TAC 401K account.292 293 See Appendix B. After the  Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved The Analysis Corporation [NASDAQ:  GTEC] corporate name change to SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc. [NASDAQ: GTEC] (see  Chap. 5 above) Brennan changed the name of the TAC 401K account on his subsequent  Disclosure Forms to read “SOTERA 401k”. This was the same account, with the same contents (stock with NASDAQ symbol GTEC], but now with a different account name. The different  account name proves Brennan did not roll-over his TAC 401K account into an IRA as he told  OGE Official Rachel E. Molinaro, he just changed the name on future forms to mislead any  investigators.  

As further proof of MOTIVE, it is logical to conclude that if the American public fear terror  attacks, they will demand Congress spend more money to prevent future attacks. If a company is  an indispensable government contractor, then that increased spending will drive up the value of  the stock of that company. Nothing can increase fear of future terror attacks like a few  successful terror attacks! Increase fear (i.e. sow terror), increase funding – increase the value of  shares of stock in the indispensable government contractor – SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc.  

The Underwear Bomber and the Boston Marathon Bombing resulted in massive increases in  counterterrorism (CT) funding by the U.S. Government.294 The increased CT funding resulted in  The Analysis Corporation (TAC) and its successor company, SOTERA Defense Industries, Inc. (SOTERA), in receiving over $2.2 billion in funding from 2003 through 2017. That increase in  funding translated into significant increases in the stock price of TAC and SOTERA (NASDAQ:  GTEC) while John Brennan owned that stock. SEC filings presented below will show that  Brennan’s stock eventually increased in value from a self-reported $50,000295 296 to $4.85  million while Brennan was a U.S. Government employee.  

Title 18 U.S.C. ' 208 provides criminal penalties for “an officer or employee of the executive  branch of the United States Government ... [who] participates personally and substantially as a  

292 http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Brennan.pdf “per the filer, in the process of rolling over Analysis Corp 401k into IRA. – REM 02.17.09…” 

293 http://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/financial_disclosures/Brennan_John_278.PDF?_ga=2.100554270.1012219008.1608131919- 559004040.1608131915 

294 https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a6115/how-the-underwear-bomber-changed-counterterrorism/ 295 http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Brennan.pdf 

296 http://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/financial_disclosures/Brennan_John_278.PDF?_ga=2.100554270.1012219008.1608131919- 559004040.1608131915

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Government officer or employee, through decision, approval, recommendation, the rendering of  advice, investigation, or otherwise, in a judicial or other proceeding, application, request for a  ruling or other determination, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other  particular matter in which, to his knowledge, he… has a financial interest.... ”297 The evidence presented in this book proves that Brennan filed eight False Official Statements (18  USC 1001) to ensure he maintained proprietary ownership of shares of stock in The Analysis  Corporation (TAC), and its successor company, SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc. (SOTERA).  Brennan intentionally maintained his stock ownership to use his position as “… an officer or  employee of the executive branch of the United States Government... personally and  substantially as a Government officer or employee, through decision, approval, recommendation,  the rendering of advice, investigation, or otherwise, in a … particular matter in which, to his  knowledge, he ... has a financial interest…” to increase the value of his portfolio. 

Brennan, as the National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism to the President “…through  decision, approval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or otherwise…”  affected the value of the shares of stock he held in his TAC/SOTERA 401K account. Brennan’s  MOTIVE was to increase the value of his pre-IPO shares of stock to the highest extent possible.  The evidence proves he turned his $50,000 worth of pre-IPO stock, held in his TAC 401K, into  $4,850,000 worth of SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc. stock in his SOTERA 401K account. 

The third component commonly used to identify possible suspects of a crime is  OPPORTUNITY.  

Who had the OPPORTUNITY to help a terrorist hide from discovery by the FBI through  sequestrating all NSA SIGINT data on the terrorist in a TS/SCI Codeword compartment?  Who had the OPPORTUNITY to aid a terrorist to pass through CBP physical security  checkpoints without detection?  

Who had the OPPORTUNITY to aid the terrorist in avoiding discovery of his prior illegal acts  (lying to the FBI about accessing Jihadi websites by hiding SIGINT references of him accessing  Jihadi websites).  

Who had the OPPORTUNITY to aid the terrorist in avoiding discovery of his preparations to  attack the United States by preventing escalation of the investigation from a Guardian  assessment into a Full Investigation?  

Who had the OPPORTUNITY to benefit financially from the resulting calls for increased  funding of Counterterrorism efforts that would send billions of dollars to indispensable  government contractors like SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc.  

Only a very, very small number of individuals would have the OPPORTUNITY described in  the five questions above because the scheme stretches over vast segments of the US Intelligence  Community. John Brennan is one of those few. Brennan’s lying on nine (9) Executive Branch  Personal Financial Statement forms for eight years in a row requires us to focus on him. We have already shown how John Brennan profited financially to the tune of $4,850,000 because  of his ownership of shares of stock in The Analysis Corporation and its successor company  SOTERA Defense Solutions, Inc. The fact Brennan intentionally concealed his ownership  

297 https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43365.pdf

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interest in the indispensable government contractor TAC/SOTERA via multiple False Official  Statements (violations of 18 USC ‘1001) over an 8-year period supports the conclusion he  intentionally attempted to benefit financially from multiple violations of Conflict of Interests  laws (18 USC ‘208). In the following chapters we will show what evidence we have collected  that verifies Brennan had the MEANS, MOTIVE, and OPPORTUNITY to commit a long  running scheme to front-run-CT-investigations-for-profit to the tune of $4,850,000 or more.

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Chapter 8 – Anwar Nassar Al-Awlaki; also known as Anwar Aulaqi, Anwar Al Aulaki, Anwar Awlaki, Anwar Aulaqi 

Anwar Nasser Al-Awlaki, an American-born Muslim cleric, first came to the attention of the  American public following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Al-Awlaki was quoted in several  publications, like National Geographic and The Washington Post commenting on Islam and the  wrong impressions the 9-11 attacks would cast on it. Al-Awlaki’s perspective on how public  opinion vis-à-vis Islam would be effected after Islamic terrorists murdered almost 3,000 people  on 9-11 was sought be the news media because he was an Imam, a Muslim religious leader, at  the Al-Ribat Mosque in San Diego from approximately 1995 to 2000.298 299 

While he only became known to the public following the 9/11 hijackings, Al-Awlaki was known  to both the FBI and the CIA prior to that fateful day. As noted previously, Al-Awlaki was a fully  recruited human intelligence asset of the CIA prior to the USS Cole bombing in October 2000,  and he was the subject of a counterterrorism investigation regarding Hamas by the FBI’s San  Diego Division as of June 5, 1999.300 301 One interviewee reported Al-Awlaki was a member of  the Muslim Brotherhood.302 The FBI’s Hamas-related investigation was reportedly closed due to  lack of evidence, but it may have been closed because Al-Awlaki was a recruited asset of the  CIA.  

As the FBI dug into the background of the 19 Saudi nationals who crashed passenger planes into  the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11/2001, they found numerous connections  between Al-Awlaki and six of the 9-11 hijackers during the two years leading up to the 9/11  attacks. Starting in January 2000 Al-Awlaki became a religious leader to two 9/11 hijackers in  San Diego (Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi) when they arrived in America. Ten months after establishing a relationship with Al Qaeda members Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi, Al-Awlaki was  in Yemen during the USS Cole bombing on October 12, 2000. Al-Awlaki was arrested by the  Yemeni Security Service due to their belief he was a member of Al Qaeda too.303 Al-Awlaki  

298 Awlaki-47; PENTTBOMB; Major Case -182; OO:NY, 265A-NY-280350-302 Serial 19167; FBI Record of Interview of Anwar Aulaqi  (aka Anwar Al-Awlaki), dated September 17, 2001. Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 1 of 12, FBI Records: The Vault — Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 01  of 12; https://vault.fbi.gov/anwar-nasser-aulaqi/Anwar%20Nasser%20Aulaqi%20Part%2001%20of%2012/view  299 Alwlaki-90; PENTTBOMB; Major Case -182; OO:NY, 265A-NY-280350-302 Serial 56455; FBI Record of Interview of Anwar Aulaqi  (aka Anwar Al-Awlaki), dated September 15, 2001. Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 1 of 12, FBI Records: The Vault — Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 01  of 12; https://vault.fbi.gov/anwar-nasser-aulaqi/Anwar%20Nasser%20Aulaqi%20Part%2001%20of%2012/view 300 Awlaki-368, PENTTBOMB; Major Case -182; OO:NY, 265A-NY-280350-302 Serial WF 1544;Response Charlotte Division lead re:  Anwar Aulaqi (aka Anwar Al-Awlaki), dated October 8, 2001. Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 1 of 12, FBI Records: The Vault — Anwar Nasser  Aulaqi Part 01 of 12; https://vault.fbi.gov/anwar-nasser-aulaqi/Anwar%20Nasser%20Aulaqi%20Part%2001%20of%2012/view. 301 Awlaki-424, PENTTBOMB; Major Case -182; OO:NY, 265A-NY-280350-302 Serial WF 1544; San Diego Request for Preliminary  Inquiry on Anwar Nasser Aulaqi, dated June 15, 1999. Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 1 of 12, FBI Records: The Vault — Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part  01 of 12; https://vault.fbi.gov/anwar-nasser-aulaqi/Anwar%20Nasser%20Aulaqi%20Part%2001%20of%2012/view. 302 Awlaki-137. PENTTBOMB; Major Case -182; OO:NY, 265A-NY-280350-302 Serial 25149 page 5; FBI Record of Interview of Redacted  Name (Protect Identity), dated September 24, 2001. Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 1 of 12, FBI Records: The Vault — Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 01  of 12; https://vault.fbi.gov/anwar-nasser-aulaqi/Anwar%20Nasser%20Aulaqi%20Part%2001%20of%2012/view 303 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021

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was held in a Yemeni jail during November and December 2000304 until CIA Director George  Tenet ordered Yemeni President Saleh to release him in January 2001.305 

After his January 2001 release by Yemeni authorities, Al-Awlaki returned to America and  moved from San Diego to Falls Church, VA. In Falls Church, Al-Awlaki became Imam of the  Dar Al Hijra Mosque and attended George Washington University as a doctoral candidate.306  By March 2001, the two future 9/11 hijackers, Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi, followed Al-Awlaki  and moved to Falls Church, VA and attended Al-Awlaki’s Dar Al Hijra Mosque. And it was in  March 2001 when Al-Hazmi introduced his Imam Al-awlaki to a third future 9/11 hijacker, Hani  Hanjour at the Dar Al Hijra Mosque in Virginia.307  

The reader is requested to reflect on the fact the Director CIA demanded Yemeni Security  release a person who the Yemenis believed was a member of Al-Qaeda (after U.S. Sailors are  killed). The release of the prisoner enables the suspected Al-Qaeda member (Awlaki) to move to  Falls Church, VA where he meets again with two persons (Al-Mihdhar & Al-Hazmi) who were  known by CIA to be members of Al-Qaeda. And then the guy the Director CIA demanded be released by Yemeni authorities is introduced to a third Al-Qaeda member. What are the chances  of the release of the prisoner at CIA Direction, his 3,000-mile move to Northern Virginia, where  he is followed by two future 9-11 hijackers, who introduce him to a third 9-11 hijacker, are  simply coincidences? 

Following the devastating 9/11 attacks the FBI documented CIA asset Al-Awlaki’s credit card  was used to pay for airline tickets for: 

- a fourth 9/11 hijacker, Mohamed Atta, on June 28, August 1, and August 13, 2001.308  - for a fifth 9/11 hijacker, Al-Sheri, on August 1st.309 And  

- a sixth 9/11 hijacker, Satam Al-Suqami, to fly with Mohamed Atta on August 13,  2001.310 311 312 313  

Not only was Al-Awlaki proven to have three Al Qaeda terrorists (two of whom were known  to the CIA) attending his Mosque in Falls Church, VA, but it is then proven he bought airline  tickets for three additional Al-Qaeda terrorists to conduct familiarity flights in preparation for  their 9/11 attacks. But until the year 2021 the American public have no idea the prisoner in  

304https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FOIA/Report_to_the_Director_of_National_Intelligence_on_the_Fort_Hood_and_Northwest_Flight_25 3_Incidents_U.pdf, page 3 “…Community analysts observed [Al-Awlaki’s] influence increasing among homegrown extremists after his release  from a Yemeni prison circa December 2007 and the subsequent launch of his website…” 

305 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021. 306 Awlaki-90, PENTTBOMB; Major Case -182; OO:NY, 265A-NY-280350-302 Serial 56455; FBI Record of Interview of Anwar Aulaqi  (aka Anwar Al-Awlaki), dated September 15, 2001. Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 1 of 12, FBI Records: The Vault — Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 01  of 12; https://vault.fbi.gov/anwar-nasser-aulaqi/Anwar%20Nasser%20Aulaqi%20Part%2001%20of%2012/view. 307 Awlaki-112, PENTTBOMB; Major Case -182; OO:NY, 265A-NY-280350-302 Serial 116682; FBI Record of Interview of Redacted  Name of a Jordanian national, dated July 2, 2002. Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 1 of 12, FBI Records: The Vault — Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 01 of  12; https://vault.fbi.gov/anwar-nasser-aulaqi/Anwar%20Nasser%20Aulaqi%20Part%2001%20of%2012/view  

308 (Awlaki-26) in Judicial Watch FOIA received Jan 2, 2013; FBI Files | Judicial Watch | Freedom Of Information Act (United States)  (scribd.com) 

309 Docs Indicate FBI Knew Terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi Purchased Airline Tickets for 9/11 Hijackers | Judicial Watch 310 CIA Pressured Yemen to Release al-Qaeda Leader From Prison (mintpressnews.com)  

311 Docs Indicate FBI Knew Terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi Purchased Airline Tickets for 9/11 Hijackers | Judicial Watch 312 (Awlaki-49) in Judicial Watch FOIA received Jan 2, 2013; FBI Files | Judicial Watch | Freedom Of Information Act (United States)  (scribd.com) 

313 Docs Indicate FBI Knew Terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi Purchased Airline Tickets for 9/11 Hijackers | Judicial Watch

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question was Anwar Al-Awlaki and he was a recruited asset of the CIA since before October  2000. 

Due to the immediate reaction by the Yemeni Security Service to the USS Cole bombing on  October 12, 2000, it was revealed years later that Anwar Al-Awlaki was a recruited CIA asset sometime prior to the day of the Cole bombing.314 The recording of the call between Director  George Tenet and President Saleh is how we learned of Al-Awlaki’s CIA employment.315  According to the transcript of the Tenet-Saleh phone call from January 2001 Director Tenet was  extremely upset Al-Awlaki had been in Yemeni custody for over 50-days (circa October 2000)  and Director Tenet demanded President Saleh release him immediately. Brennan as Chief of  Staff to the Director of the CIA when the Cole was bombed would have known about Al  Awlaki’s status as a CIA asset. 

Director Tenet’s statement places Al-Awlaki’s arrest by Yemeni Security sometime in late  October 2000, shortly after the Cole bombing. The very time that Al-Awlaki told the FBI he was  in Saudi Arabia for Ramadan.316 The CIA recording of this call and the NSA’s recording of this  call could prove Al-Awlaki lied to the FBI about his Ramadan story, but the CIA withheld this  information from the FBI.  

The public only learned of Al-Awlaki’s CIA recruitment from a transcript of a telephone call  between Director CIA George Tenet and Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in January 2001.  The recording was retrieved by Houthi rebel forces from Yemeni Government facilities in the  Yemeni Civil War, circa 2021. The recording and a transcript of the call was published in  Almasirah [the Houthi news agency publication]. The content of the call was confirmed as true  by Major General Abdulqadir Al-Shami, the former Deputy Head of the Yemeni Security and  Intelligence Service, who witnessed the call.317  

For the reader’s greater understanding of the contents of this recorded call a significant portion  of the reported information is provided below: 

In early January 2001 then CIA Director George Tenet was recorded on a phone call with the  President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, demanding President Saleh order the release of Anwar  Al Awlaki with Director Tenet stating, “this is my person, this is my problem, this is my  issue…The man must be released… I’ve talked to everyone in my government; I told them  that I was going to make this call…”318 319 320 As [Yemeni President] Saleh’s interpreter is  delivering Tenet’s message to the Yemeni President, the CIA director cuts him off and says the  man in question “…must be released within 48 hours… After 50 days, this must stop…”321  

314 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021 315 Ibid. 

316 Awlaki-124; PENTTBOMB; Major Case -182; OO:NY, 265A-NY-280350-302 Serial 19639 page 2; FBI Record of Interview of Anwar  Aulaqi (aka Anwar Al-Awlaki), dated September 19, 2001. Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 1 of 12, FBI Records: The Vault — Anwar Nasser Aulaqi  Part 01 of 12; https://vault.fbi.gov/anwar-nasser-aulaqi/Anwar%20Nasser%20Aulaqi%20Part%2001%20of%2012/view “…Aulaqi [aka Al  Awlaki] reiterated that he had attended Ramadan in Saudi Arabia during mi-November to mid-December 2000…”  317 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021 318 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021 319 Alexander Rubinstein, TheGrayZone.com; Did the CIA pressure Yemen to release al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki? - The Grayzone; https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/22/cia-yemen-al-qaeda-anwar-al-awlaki/; retrieved 3/22/2021 

320 Ibid. 

321 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021

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The 50-days of incarceration corresponds to the months of November and December 2000 – the  time Al Awlaki told the FBI he was in Saudia Arabia for Ramadan.322 

Despite his being arrested and held in a Yemeni jail for almost two months (November &  December 2000),323 Al Awlaki lied to the FBI following the 9-11 attacks by telling the FBI he  was in Saudi Arabia for Ramadan during November and December 2000.324 Al Awlaki’s lie  and exposure of his recruitment as a CIA asset was not revealed until almost 20-years later.325  

Director Tenet did not identify Al-Awlaki by name in the telephone call, but the Deputy Head of  the [Yemeni] Security and Intelligence Service, Major General Abdulqadir Al-Shami, confirmed  that the call between the director of the "CIA" and Saleh was to release the takfiri "Anwar Al Awlaqi," the Al-Qaeda leader who has dual Yemeni and American nationalities. 326 327 Earlier in  the call Yemeni President Saleh asked if he should let the FBI team investigating the USS Cole  bombing interview Al-Awlaki.328 329 The vehemence of Director Tenet’s response “…must be  released within 48 hours… After 50 days, this must stop…” reveals Tenet did not want the  FBI team investigating the Cole bombing to interview Al-Awlaki at all. The agent in charge of  the FBI team was Special Agent Ali Soufan. The same Ali Soufan the CIA sent a False Official  Statement in the form of a Letterhead Memorandum about Al Qaeda’s Kuala Lumpur planning  session. 

The reader is cautioned to not miss the significance of the fact that Anwar Al-Awlaki was a  recruited Human Intelligence (HUMINT) source of the CIA at least as early as October 2000  when the USS Cole was attacked. The foregoing comments by the CIA Director George Tenet  in early January 2001, made while his CIA Chief of Staff, John Brennan, was most likely  listening to the call, is of extreme importance when viewed considering what happened just 9- months later on September 11, 2001.  

Al-Awlaki was a HUMINT source of the CIA that was so important to Director George Tenet  that, while implying he had the backing of the President George W. Bush, Tenet demanded a  foreign head of state release Al-Awlaki him from custody! During the same call, Tenet ordered  the President of Yemen to release Al-Awlaki before the FBI team investigating the USS Cole  bombing, and Ali Soufan, could interview him!  

At the time Director Tenet made his January 2001 call to President Saleh, Brennan was Tenet’s  Chief of Staff. It is understood CIA Chiefs of Staff typically sit in on calls between the CIA  

322 Awlaki-124; PENTTBOMB; Major Case -182; OO:NY, 265A-NY-280350-302 Serial 19639 page 2; FBI Record of Interview of Anwar  Aulaqi (aka Anwar Al-Awlaki), dated September 19, 2001. Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Part 1 of 12, FBI Records: The Vault — Anwar Nasser Aulaqi  Part 01 of 12; https://vault.fbi.gov/anwar-nasser-aulaqi/Anwar%20Nasser%20Aulaqi%20Part%2001%20of%2012/view  323 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021. 324 “…Aulaqi [aka Al Awlaki] reiterated that he had attended Ramadan in Saudi Arabia during mi-November to mid-December 2000…” FBI 302, dated 9/19/2001, document marked as Awlaki-124 on the FBI.gov/Vault site, recovered 9/24/2023 

325 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021 326 english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021 327 Alexander Rubinstein, TheGrayZone.com; Did the CIA pressure Yemen to release al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki? - The Grayzone;  https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/22/cia-yemen-al-qaeda-anwar-al-awlaki/; retrieved 3/22/2021 

328english.almasirah.net:Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA; retrieved 3/22/2021 329 Alexander Rubinstein, TheGreyZone.com; Did the CIA pressure Yemen to release al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki? - The Grayzone;  https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/22/cia-yemen-al-qaeda-anwar-al-awlaki/; retrieved 3/22/2021

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Director and a Head-of-State. Director Tenet mentions briefing everyone in the US government  before making this call to President Saleh. Arranging briefings to “everyone” in the US  Government, as stated by Tenet, is a Chief of Staff’s job. A recorded call between the CIA  Director and a head of state, attested to by a personal witness of high rank, is un-impeachable  evidence.  

The only logical conclusion is Brennan also knew Anwar Al-Awlaki was a CIA asset.  Brennan knew Al-Awlaki was a CIA asset in January 2001.  

Brennan knew Al-Awlaki was a CIA asset on September 11, 2001.  

Brennan knew Al-Awlaki was a CIA asset in 2005 when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab began  listening to Anwar Al-Awlaki’s sermons online [a SIGINT marker] and when Abdulmutallab  was reading Al-Awlaki’s exhortations to martyrdom online [a SIGINT marker]330– 4-years  before he tried to down an airliner on Christmas Eve 2009.  

Brennan knew Al-Awlaki was a CIA asset on November 5, 2009, when Al-Awlaki’s email correspondent [a SIGINT marker], Major Hasan Nidal, MD, US Army, murdered 13 soldiers at  Fort Hood.331 

Brennan knew Al-Awlaki was a recruited CIA asset when Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston  Marathon Bomber, was first listening to Al-Awlaki’s martyrdom sermons online [a SIGINT  marker], and  

Brennan knew Al-Awlaki was a recruited CIA asset when Tamerlan Tsarnaev sent Al-Awlaki’s  martyrdom sermons [a SIGINT marker] to his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from Russia via  email [a SIGINT marker].332  

Could Brennan’s knowledge about Anwar Al-Awlaki’s CIA recruitment figure into why John  Brennan hates The Donald so? 

330 New Details About Unrepentant 'Underwear' Bomber Released - ABC News (go.com) 331 McKinley, James C. Jr.; Dao, James (November 8, 2009). "Fort Hood Gunman Gave Signals Before His  Rampage". The New York Times. 

332 https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-ma/legacy/2013/06/27/Indictment1.pdf

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Chapter 9 – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab – The Underwear Bomber of  Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas 2009. 

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was the son of a prominent Nigerian banking official. As the son  of a well-to-do father, Umar, attended a boarding school in West Africa in 2005 and then moved  to attend university in London. In 2005, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab began chatting online [a  SIGINT marker] under the screenname “Farouk 1986” – of course, the computer  Abdulmutallab used for posting under the screen name “Farouk 1986” had a registered Internet  Protocol (IP) address [a SIGINT marker].333 A cursory investigation of “Farouk 1986’s” postings could reveal his true name identity at that IP address, if one were so inclined. On  February 20, 2005 “Farouk 1986” posted that he was very lonely, attending a school in West  Africa with few other Muslim students, and posted [a SIGINT marker] he was fantasizing  about how wonderful Jihad (Holy war against non-believers) would be.334  

Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know for a fact that as of February 2008, the NSA’s XKeyscore  SIGINT program was operational in Nigeria [see Appendix D, page 6 of 32] and XKeyscore’s  algorithms were sifting through billions of online postings for persons who were “lonely,  Muslim, males, wishing to engage in Jihad.”335 

It was during 2005, while in West Africa, when Abdulmutallab began listening to CIA asset  Anwar Al-Awlaki’s lectures online [a SIGINT marker] and reading CIA asset Al-Awlaki’s writings online [a SIGINT marker] - which motivated [Abdulmutallab] to accept Jihad  martyrdom.336 During his 2005 postings from West Africa as “Farouk 1986” [a SIGINT  marker] Abdulmutallab mused about how wonderful it would be for Muslims to win the Jihad  and rule the whole world.337 Abdulmutallab even provided his true name as Umar Farouk when  he posted online to his “Farouk 1986” account in 2005 [a SIGINT marker].338 “…For years,  Abdulmutallab had been following the fiery radical's online teachings of [CIA asset] Awlaki [a  SIGINT marker]…”, according to court documents presented at his sentencing.339 

333 Richard Roth, CBS News, “Abdulmutallab’s Jihadist Fantasies Revealed, December 28, 2009,  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdulmutallabs-jihad-fantasies-revealed/; retrieved from  

https://archive.org/details/WJZ_20091229_093000_CBS_Morning_News/start/300/end/360 on 11/22/2023 

334 Ibid. 

335 Glenn Greenwald, THE NSA FILES: XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’, July 31, 2013,  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data 

336 Jason Ryan, ABC News, February 10, 2012 “New Details About Unrepentant 'Underwear' Bomber Released https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/new-details-about-unrepentant-underwear-bomber-released. Retrieved 11/22/2023, with Pierre  Thomas and Jack Cloherty. 

337 Richard Roth, CBS News, “Abdulmutallab’s Jihadist Fantasies Revealed, December 28, 2009,  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdulmutallabs-jihad-fantasies-revealed/; retrieved from  

https://archive.org/details/WJZ_20091229_093000_CBS_Morning_News/start/300/end/360 on 11/22/2023. 

338 Ibid. 

339 Jason Ryan, ABC News, February 10, 2012 “New Details About Unrepentant 'Underwear' Bomber Released https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/new-details-about-unrepentant-underwear-bomber-released. Retrieved 11/22/2023, with Pierre  Thomas and Jack Cloherty.

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When Abdulmutallab began attending University College in London in 2006 he became the  president of the Online Islamic Student Union [a SIGINT marker].340 London was one of the  hubs of the NSA’s XKeyscore SIGINT program.341 On January 26, 2007 Abdulmutallab posted  a list of online seminars related to The War on Terror [a SIGINT marker].342 Abdulmutallab  left London to attend graduate school in Dubai and from there he went to Yemen to meet CIA  asset Al-Awlaki.343 

“…Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was obsessed with radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar  Awlaki, and embarked on a pilgrimage to Yemen to seek him out in 2009.344 In August 2009,  Abdulmutallab left Dubai, where he had been taking graduate courses, and sought out Awlaki in  Yemen. Abdulmutallab was not to be denied. "…[ Abdulmutallab] visited mosques and asked  people he met if they knew how he could meet Awlaki. Eventually, defendant made contact with  an individual who made contact [with Anwar Al-Awlaki] for him…"345 

“…Thereafter, defendant received a text message from Awlaki [a SIGINT marker] telling  defendant to call him [a SIGINT marker], which defendant did," the government memo  discloses. 

During the phone call [a SIGINT marker], Awlaki asked that Abdulmutallab provide in writing  the reasons he wanted to participate in violent jihad. After working on his response over the next  three days Abdulmutallab was finally granted a meeting with Awlaki…”346 

The reader should note the number of SIGINT marker incidents revealed in this cursory, 6- paragraph, background profile of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. What are the chances that the  NSA was not actively monitoring every single IP address of someone listening to Al-Awlaki’s  “…fiery radical… online teachings…” on whatever Jihadi website hosted those teachings. In the  case of Abdulmutallab, his IP address would have shown up in NSA SIGINT records numerous  times over the course of the several years he was obsessed with Al-Awlaki’s online teachings.  Abdulmutallab’s IP address from West Africa, then in London, and then in Duba would have  shown up on the monitoring of the Jihadi website where [CIA asset] Al-Awlaki’s sermons were  posted.  

Every time a person moves to another country, they must either transfer their prior IP address to  their new location or they must register a new IP address in the new location. In either case, the  

340 Richard Roth, CBS News, “Abdulmutallab’s Jihadist Fantasies Revealed, December 28, 2009,  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdulmutallabs-jihad-fantasies-revealed/; retrieved from  

https://archive.org/details/WJZ_20091229_093000_CBS_Morning_News/start/300/end/360 on 11/22/2023. 

341 Glenn Greenwald, THE NSA FILES: XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’, July 31, 2013,  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data 

342 Richard Roth, CBS News, “Abdulmutallab’s Jihadist Fantasies Revealed, December 28, 2009,  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdulmutallabs-jihad-fantasies-revealed/; retrieved from  

https://archive.org/details/WJZ_20091229_093000_CBS_Morning_News/start/300/end/360 on 11/22/2023.. 

343 Jason Ryan, ABC News, February 10, 2012 “New Details About Unrepentant 'Underwear' Bomber Released https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/new-details-about-unrepentant-underwear-bomber-released. Retrieved 11/22/2023, with Pierre  Thomas and Jack Cloherty. 

344 Ibid. 

345 Jason Ryan, ABC News, February 10, 2012 “New Details About Unrepentant 'Underwear' Bomber Released https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/new-details-about-unrepentant-underwear-bomber-released. Retrieved 11/22/2023, with Pierre  Thomas and Jack Cloherty. 

346 Ibid.

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true identity of the IP address registrant is reported to the Internet Service Provider (ISP). The  NSA would have recorded, and reported, the numerous SIGINT markers identified above about  the same person in three different countries to the NCTC. In the NCTC, an analyst could  identify Abdulmutallab from his IP address and match his identity with “Farouk 1986”, and with  “Umar Farouk” as well as his profile as president of the Online Islamic Student Union in  London. Who believes the NSA missed recording most if not all the SIGINT reference points  listed above while Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was a priority of U.S.  Intelligence?  

We can assume the NSA didn’t miss these numerous SIGINT references and we can assume they  reported them to the NCTC. And what did Brennan tell us the NCTC can do? The NCTC can  order the NSA to place all future SIGINT references of the person associated with “Farouk  1986”, “Umar Farouk”, his IP addresses, true name, phone numbers, credit cards, etc. into a  TS/SCI Codeword compartment, and… access to the data in the Codeword compartment is  controlled by the NCTC analyst who established the Codeword compartment.  

Once the Codeword compartment is established, not even the NSA can review the information in  the compartment without the permission of the NCTC analyst. Any new information which  matches what is already in the Codeword compartment (i.e. new calls of texts on the subject’s  phone, new emails, new airline reservations, credit card usage, etc.) would be automatically  routed into the Codeword compartment before any NSA employee reviewed the information, or  could report it to someone else. 

John Brennan already informed us that the NCTC analyst would simultaneously receive any  cable sent to CIAHQ from a CIA Station. 

At this point in our story we need to return to the process of how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab  was recruited by the Awlaki to become a suicide bomber. According to court documents  “…Thereafter, defendant received a text message from Awlaki [a SIGINT marker] telling  defendant to call him [a SIGINT marker], which defendant did," the government memo  discloses. “…During the phone call [a SIGINT marker], Awlaki asked that Abdulmutallab  provide in writing the reasons he wanted to participate in violent jihad. After working on his  response over the next three days Abdulmutallab was finally granted a meeting with  Awlaki…”347 

"…[Abdulmutallab] was picked up and driven through the Yemeni desert. He eventually arrived  at Awlaki's house, (sic) and stayed there for three days. During that time, defendant met with  Awlaki and the two men discussed martyrdom and jihad…"348 

347 Jason Ryan, ABC News, February 10, 2012 “New Details About Unrepentant 'Underwear' Bomber Released https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/new-details-about-unrepentant-underwear-bomber-released. Retrieved 11/22/2023, with Pierre  Thomas and Jack Cloherty. 

348 Ibid.

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"…[Abdulmutallab] left Awlaki's house, and was taken to another house, where he met AQAP  bomb-maker Ibrahim Al Asiri. Defendant and Al Asiri discussed defendant's desire to commit an act of jihad. Thereafter, Al Asiri discussed a plan for a martyrdom mission with Awlaki, who  gave it final approval, and instructed defendant Abdulmutallab on it…"349 

“…The government filing also disclose[d] that at an AQAP training camp Abdulmutallab met  with Samir Khan a U.S. citizen who fled to Yemen and wrote the online English-language  magazine Inspire [SIGINT marker] dedicated to violent jihad and how-to ideas on terrorist  attacks…”350  

The involvement of Abdulmutallab with Al-Awlaki and other AQAP personnel took place from  August 2009 up until Christmas 2009. Reviews of White House Visitor Logs reveals that in  early October 2009 NCTC analyst Michael Jones began holding face-to-face, one-on-one  meetings with Gregory Sahene Jr., a Physical Fitness Trainer for White House personnel.351 These October 2009, face-to-face, one-on-one meetings occurred on October 9th at 4:00 PM,  October 14th at 4:00 PM, and on October 15th at 12:00 PM, and were held in Room 2008 in the  New Executive Office Building (NEOB).352 Wait, what? A counterterrorism analyst held face to-face, one-on-one meetings with… a Personal Fitness Instructor in a White House conference  room - that makes no sense. 

It would be foolish for anyone to believe a counterterrorism analyst named Michael Jones was  meeting with a fitness instructor in a conference room in the New Executive Office Building on  these dates. Obviously, the official who met with Michael Jones on these three days wanted to  hide his involvement with Jones by using the identity of a low-level staffer in the record to  conceal his attendance at the meetings with Jones. To further solidify the conclusion that  Michael Jones was meeting with a higher-ranking official, versus a fitness instructor, each of the  three meetings above was scheduled, and then rescheduled at least once.353 Short notice  rescheduling of appointments at the White House official’s request - not Jones’ request, indicates Michael Jones was the lower ranking person of the two individuals at each meeting. It is safe to  assume a Personal Fitness Trainer does not out rank a Counterterrorism Analyst in the White  House pecking order... Someone worked hard to hide their identity by stealing Greg Sahene’s identity. 

This would not be the first-time high-ranking officials at the White House used a low-ranking staffer’s identity in the Visitor Log to conceal the official’s attendance at meetings which might  raise suspicions of some sort. In fact, John Brennan used this same tactic by having his  scheduler, Caroline Krency354- a GS-07 Miscellaneous Admin. Assistant, use her own name in place of Brennan’s in visitor log records for 13 separate one-on-one, face-to-face meetings with  

349 Jason Ryan, ABC News, February 10, 2012 “New Details About Unrepentant 'Underwear' Bomber Released https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/new-details-about-unrepentant-underwear-bomber-released. Retrieved 11/22/2023, with Pierre  Thomas and Jack Cloherty. 

350 Ibid. 

351 Greg Sahene, Jr. biography from Hurricane's Heroes (k9hurricanesheroes.org) website. Retrieved on 11/27/2023 352 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/files/disclosures/visitors/WhiteHouse-WAVES-released-1210; Appointment UIN: U45190, U46407,  U47237 

353 Ibid. Appointment UIN: U45131, U46406, U46912 

354 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckrency

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Michael Jones from January 3, 2012, through July 30, 2012.355 Coincidentally, this January to  July 2012 period was when Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon Bomber, was in Russia  meeting Islamist terrorists. What a coincidence that one-on-one, face-to-face meetings by  Michael Jones with someone in the White House, which are contemporaneous with two  significant terror attacks had the other attendees identify masked in the White House Visitor Log.  What is the probability? We will discuss those 13 or so masked meetings in the Boston  Marathon Bombing Chapter. 

Let’s return our focus to 2009 and Abdulmutallab in Yemen with Al-Awlaki, et al. The meeting  between Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and AQAP member Samir Khan at the AQAP training  camp noted above is important. It was Samir Khan’s recipe for a pressure-cooker-bomb that  Tsarnaev copied from Anwar Al-Awlaki’s website [a SIGINT marker] which Tsarnaev and his  brother used to carry out the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013.356 The federal indictment of  Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s brother Dzhokhar stated “…Inspire magazine is an English language  online publication [a SIGINT marker] of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Volume  One of Inspire magazine, which is dated summer 2010, contains detailed instructions for  constructing IEDs using pressure cookers, explosive powder from fireworks, shrapnel, adhesive,  and other materials. IEDs constructed in this manner are designed to shred flesh, shatter bone,  and cause extreme pain and suffering, as well as death…”357 358  

Does anyone believe the NSA was NOT using XKeyscore to record the IP address of everyone  who ever downloaded Volume One of Inspire [Online] Magazine to get the Pressure-Cooker Bomb recipe? And to whom would the NSA report those IP addresses? You guessed it – the  NCTC. But we will cover that [SIGINT reference] in our Boston Marathon Bombing Chapter.  Let’s get back to Abdulmutallab. 

Two months after Abdulmutallab met with Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan in Yemen in August  2009, GCHQ, the British Government’s Signals Intelligence Agency, sent a cable to the NSA on  November 12, 2009, that someone named “Umar Farouk,” an online name [SIGINT marker]  identified with Abdulmutallab since 2005 in West Africa, was in email contact with Anwar Al Awlaki [SIGINT marker]. GCHQ apparently informed the NSA of “Umar Farouk’s” age,  education, and travel experience.359 It should have been pretty simple for the NSA to marry up  the GCHQ data on “Umar Farouk” with similar data in NSA records, right? We are not talking  rocket science here – you just type in “Umar Farouk” in the NSA search box and hit enter, right?  

355 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/files/disclosures/visitors/ WhiteHouse-WAVES-2012; Appointment UIN:  U70598, U73495, U77743, U78893, U80355, U85540, U86388, U88223, U90918, U97610, U97988, U09788,  U28156 

356 https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/file/846601/download 

357 https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/file/846601/download 

358 22) Tsarnaev_Indictment.pdf (gwu.edu) 

359https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FOIA/Report_to_the_Director_of_National_Intelligence_on_the_Fort_Hood_and_Northwest_Flight_25 3_Incidents_U.pdf, page 14

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The XKeyscore PowerPoint360 [Appendix E] says the system is that easy. All evidence indicates  the NSA should have found similar records in their files for “Umar Farouk” going back 4-years.  But somehow, the NSA doesn’t have 4-years’ worth of data. 

This author has not seen any information that indicates the NSA, using GCHQ’s information,  was able to identify any “Umar Farouk” SIGINT information previously collected by the NSA.  None was reported by any Congressional Committee, the Department of Homeland Security, or  the Intelligence Community Office of Inspector General (IC-OIG) investigations. How is that  possible? The NSA must have collected something on “Umar Farouk” - he was the President of  the Online Islamic Student Union at University College in London! The Online… Online… did  you hear me? Umar Farouk was posting to the ONLINE Islamic Student Union – that is SIGINT  paradise! How could the NSA or England’s GCHQ miss that? 

It makes no sense the NSA’s vast XKeyscore SIGINT collection records, or GCHQ’s for that  matter, did not have “Umar Farouk”, “Farouk 1986,” or IP addresses downloading Al-Awlaki  online sermons that matched the data in the GCHQ cable on November 12th. Oh, wait!  Sometime prior to November, a NCTC analyst might have directed the NSA to scour its records  and place all SIGINT references related to “Umar Farouk,” etc., into a TS/SCI Codeword  compartment. Perhaps sequestering the data took place before October 2009 – sometime prior to  Michael Jones meeting with the official who hid his identity with Personal-Fitness- Instructor mask on the 9th, 14th or 15th. 

If all the NSA’s prior “Umar Farouk,” etc., SIGINT records were already held in a TS/SCI  Codeword compartment those prior NSA records would not be searchable by the NSA when they  got the GCHQ’s “Umar Farouk” cable on November 12th! All those prior SIGINT references  would be marked TS/SCI Codeword and the NCTC Analyst could simply decide the NSA did  not have a-need-to-know if the GCHQ data matched what was in the Codeword compartment.  The character and timing of these meetings, and the failure of the NSA to match any data in its  files with the GCHQ cable, certainly matches the actions of someone front-running-a counterterrorism-investigation-for-profit. 

Continuing on with the lead up to the Christmas Underwear bombing, just a week after GCHQ’s  November 12, 2009, message to the NSA about the “Umar Farouk” being in email contact  [SIGINT marker] with Al-Awlaki, Abdulmutallab’s father entered the US Embassy in ABJUA,  Nigeria and met with a CIA officer. Abdulmutallab’s father informed the CIA officer there that  his son Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab "…had fallen under the influence of unspecified religious  extremists…” while studying in London. The father reported his son was naïve and being  influenced to join groups who would be willing to engage in illegal acts in the name of  religion.361 The father stated his son was planning on studying in Yemen for the next 7-years  

360 XKeyscore presentation from 2008 – read in full | US news | theguardian.com 

361https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FOIA/Report_to_the_Director_of_National_Intelligence_on_the_Fort_Hood_and_Northwest_Flight_253 _Incidents_U.pdf, page 6

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and his son had not withdrawn any money from his bank account.362 CIAHQ name traces for  Abdulmutallab were only run on CIA systems, which met with negative results.363 

According to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) panel that reviewed the evidence related to Abdulmutallab boarding the Northwest Airlines Flight 253, the biographic information provided by his father to CIA ABJUA Station was consistent with the biographical data found in the November 12, 2009, GCHQ cable to the NSA about “Umar Farouk” emailing Al-Awlaki.  The 

DNI Review Panel stated [CIAHQ] was unaware of Abdulmutallab’s email contact with Al Awlaki 

[SIGINT marker] when his father reported Abdulmutallab to CIA ABJUA Station on, because CIAHQ did not receive the cable from GCHQ a week earlier.364  

CNN’s Jeanne Meserve quoted “a reliable source” as saying on Tuesday (12/29/2009): “The  father of terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab (sic) talked about his son with someone from the CIA and a [message called a cable] was prepared, but the [cable] was not circulated outside the agency.”365 Remember dear reader, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s father met with the CIA at the US Embassy ABJUA, Nigeria. The only way CIAHQ would have this information about Abdulmutallab was via a message (i.e. cable) from CIA ABJUA Station to CIAHQ. 

As the reader is now well aware, John Brennan himself told us that a copy of every  CIA cable is received simultaneously in the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). A  NCTC 

analyst would have an identical copy of the CIA ABJUA Station cable to CIAHQ about  Abdulmutalab.  

When seen with the understanding that a NCTC analyst also saw the CIA ABJUA Station cable about Abdulmutallab’s father, CNN’s Meserve’s reporting that the “…[cable] was not circulated outside the agency…” is a red herring showing us Meserve’s ‘reliable source’ leaked this classified information to her to influence CNN’s audience into believing the Abdulmutallab cable was only seen by CIA personnel. 

Selective leaking of classified information to the media was a media manipulation tactic Routinely practiced by John Brennan. 

According to a report by CBS News correspondent Armen Keteyian, “…the State Department system designed to keep track of active U.S. visas twice failed to reveal Nigerian terror suspect 

362 

362https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FOIA/Report_to_the_Director_of_National_Intelligence_on_the_Fort_Hood_and_Northwest_Flight_253 _Incidents_U.pdf, page 7 

363 Ibid., page 7 

364https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FOIA/Report_to_the_Director_of_National_Intelligence_on_the_Fort_Hood_and_Northwest_Flight_253 _Incidents_U.pdf, page 6 

365 https://www.politico.com/story/2009/12/cia-also-knew-about-suspect-031048

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been issued an active visa allowing him multiple entries into the United States...”366 

“…According to a law enforcement source, the first failure came on Nov. 19, 2009, the very  same 

day Abdulmutallab father's, Dr. Umaru Mutallab, a prominent banking official in Nigeria, expressed deep concern to officials at the U.S. Embassy in Abjua, Nigeria…” The second failure of the State Department Visa system was the next day November 20, 2009 was (sic) when CIAHQ sought to verify the information in the cable from CIA Abjua Station...”367 

The problem with this intentional leak of classified information to the press is the information  was completely false. CBS reporter Keteyian was lied to about the visa being missed by the  State Department system. Per Ambassador Patrick Kennedy, the CIA requested the State  Department to hide the fact Abdulmutallab had a valid visa.  

 Ambassador Patrick F. Kennedy, Undersecretary of State for Management testifying in  

“…Congressional hearings, admitted that Umar [Abdulmutallab] was a known terrorist, was  being followed, and the U.S. allowed him into the U.S. so that it could catch Umar  [Abdulmutallab]’s accomplices.368 369 I [Kyle Haskill] was once again shocked and saddened  when [Director] Michael Leiter of the National Counterterrorism Center [NCTC] admitted  during these same hearings that intentionally letting terrorists into the U.S. was a frequent  practice of the U.S. Government…”370 371  

The involvement of Ambassador Patrick F. Kennedy with Abdulmutallab and Kennedy’s  testimony about the CIA and Abdulmutallab’s is very, very important to our story.  

You see, when NCTC Analyst Michael Jones - the only NCTC analyst with a record of more than two-dozen one-on-one, face-to-face meetings with John Brennan, left federal service four years later on July 31, 2013, Jones was given a very special going away party by the Vice President of the United States  (VPOTUS) Joe Biden.372 The Visitor Logs indicate a classified end-of-tour-awards-ceremony for Michael Jones, hosted by VPOTUS Biden, was held in the White House Situation Room and had just five listed participants. Ambassador Patrick F. Kennedy (‘the CIA let Abdulmutallab on the plane’) was one of the five participants in this extremely exclusive event – Jones, VPOTUS Biden, Amb. Kennedy, 

366 Armen Keteyian, CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent, “U.S. failed to Catch Suspect’s Active Visa”,  December 28, 2009; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-failed-to-catch-suspects-active-visa/ 367 Ibid. 

368https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/%3Cp%3Ehttp://detnews.com/article/20100127/NATION/1270405/ Terror-suspect-kept-visa-to-avoid-tipping-off-larger-investigation%3C/p%3E:  

369 https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32467_Page2.html"…Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State  Department, said Abdulmutallab's visa wasn't taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to deny a visa to the suspected  terrorist over concerns that a denial would've foiled a larger investigation into al-Qaeda threats against the United States…” 370 https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/7590-was-underwear-bomber-a-false-flag-a-fellow-passenger-testifies  371 http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2012/02/victim-impact-statement.html 

372 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/files/disclosures/visitors/ WhiteHouse-WAVES-2013; Appointment UIN:  U13058, July 31, 2013

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