Brennan: Time to Round Up Sitting Congressmen, Bigots — “Even Libertarians…”

Former CIA Director John Brennan was anxious to assure viewers of MSNBC on Wednesday that there would be a witch-hunt, regardless of any talk about unity: “I know… the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser light fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements we’ve seen overseas.” The man knows a few things about running insurgency movements overseas. “Where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength, and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.” You were worried he’d forget the libertarians? And besides Trump administration officials, in a rather awkward sentence, he included sitting members of Congress: “And unfortunately, I think there has been this momentum that has been generated, unfortunately I think, of the demagogue of rhetoric of people who have just departed government, but also those who continue in the halls of Congress. So I really do think that the law enforcement, homeland security, intelligence and even the defense officials are doing everything possible to root out what seems to be a very, very serious, and insidious threat to our democracy and our republic.”