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You watched the clip and you felt the heat — because Americans are finally watching the swamp get called out. On Monday’s The Right Squad, the panel tore into former CIA director John Brennan for the defensive, furious posture he adopted when pressed about the infamous Hunter Biden laptop episode, a moment that showed exactly why the American people have lost faith in the intelligence elite.
Here’s the hard fact no one on the left wants to reckon with: Brennan was one of 51 former intelligence officials who signed an October 2020 statement saying the laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” a claim that helped gaslight the public and justify sweeping censorship. That statement was not innocuous caution; it carried the weight of government prestige and shaped how Americans saw the story.
Republican investigators later exposed how political this whole episode appears to have been — testimony and documents show that the Biden campaign and its allies, including then-adviser Antony Blinken, played a direct role in setting off the letter, with former CIA official Michael Morell admitting he was motivated to “help” Biden win. This wasn’t a spontaneous act of public service; it was political theater that used national security credentials as a weapon.
House Republicans weren’t willing to let the matter die, and rightly so. Committee leaders said closed-door interviews — including one with Brennan — confirmed that what was presented to the public as some neutral, apolitical warning was in truth entangled with campaign talk points and strategic timing designed to blunt a damaging story. When a former CIA director comes off sounding defensive and agitated under questioning, that speaks volumes about credibility and motive.
Accountability finally followed action: the Biden-era apparatchiks who lent their names to that October 2020 stunt saw consequences when the Trump administration moved to revoke security clearances tied to the signatories, a corrective measure aimed at restoring some measure of institutional integrity. If former officials will lend their gravitas to political operations, they shouldn’t expect to keep the perks that imply impartiality.
Make no mistake, this is about more than Brennan’s temper on TV; it’s about the betrayal of public trust. When intelligence credentials are used as a political cudgel, hardworking Americans lose faith in the institutions meant to protect them. The right response is plain: more oversight, tougher standards for retired officials who trade on their titles, and consequences for those who break the implicit compact with the American people.
The media’s role in the cover-up cannot be ignored either — sloppy headlines and protective reporting amplified the false narrative and gave Big Tech the excuse to silence debate in a crucial stretch before the election. That distortion matters because it changed the flow of information to voters at a decisive moment, and the press should be ashamed for its part.
Patriots should demand two things: transparency about how this statement was manufactured, and reforms that stop career officials from turning national security credibility into political capital. If we want a government that serves the people rather than a political class that protects itself, we have to keep pressing until every last question is answered and every lesson is learned.
