Obama's CIA director once voted for WHO? (Hint: It's NOT a Dem or GOPer but many still aren't surprised)

https://twitter.com/rrothfeldt/status/778683973450858496

Barack Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser who was made director of the CIA in 2013, John Brennan, made a rather candid admission in a recent interview:

Obama's CIA director says he voted for the Communist Party in 1980. https://t.co/3zLoC8C3JU

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) September 21, 2016

From CNN:

At his first polygraph test to enter the CIA, the future director had a secret.

John Brennan on Thursday recalled being asked a standard question for a top security clearance at his early CIA lie detector test: Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the US?

“I froze,” Brennan said during a panel discussion about diversity in the intelligence community at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual conference. “This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate,”

Brennan was responding to a question about barriers to recruiting diverse candidates for the intelligence fields, including whether past records of activism could hurt someone applying for a clearance later in life.

Brennan was recounting a story about how, in 1980, he admitted voting for the Communist Party candidate in the previous election.

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Which is why he's Obama's CIA director https://t.co/q1nZeH5XQE

— Nick Short ?? (@PoliticalShort) September 21, 2016

Now it all makes sense.

i like how @CNN plays this as a funny, heartwarming anecdote @HotlineJosh

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 21, 2016

It's a little unnerving he ever thought _Communism_ was a good idea. https://t.co/8xvUiEy7nI

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 21, 2016

I'd be surprised to find out who in this admin has not had a flirtation or allegiance to Marxism.

— BayAreaFrau (@bayareahausfrau) September 21, 2016

But anyone who brings up cultural Marxism is a loony conspiracy theorist. https://t.co/mtcUxBgJKo

— Tony Fernandez ✝️ (@phattonez) September 21, 2016

Yeeeeah, that's… not something you want to hear from your CIA director: that he voted for the Commies during the Cold War. https://t.co/kKRWoFM949

— I'm a woman, and I'm mad as Hell (@nowhere_nh) September 21, 2016

well this explains a lot… https://t.co/PhYBLcMZak

— H1Bs are NAFTA to IT workers (@AdrienneM5) September 21, 2016

He got away with the "I was young and in college" excuse. https://t.co/TVFOJDwmjr

— RBe (@RBPundit) September 21, 2016

Islamists and Communists in government are regular features of govt these days. https://t.co/EfUNIozlP0

— EnoughIsEnough (@moonlander56) September 21, 2016

Um how did he even get a security clearance, much less get confirmed as CIA Director? https://t.co/SdBrROO19c

— Jeff Brokaw (@jeffbrokaw2013) September 21, 2016

https://twitter.com/aporterwrites/status/778682785108156417

If Brennan had admitted to once being a “climate change denier,” you can be sure Obama might have considered that UNFORGIVABLE.