Today,
21 October 2015 and over the coming days WikiLeaks is releasing
documents from one of CIA chief John Brennan's non-government email
accounts. Brennan used the account occasionally for several
intelligence related projects.
John
Brennan became the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in
March 2013, replacing General David Petraeus who was forced to step
down after becoming embroiled in a classified information mishandling
scandal. Brennan was made Assistant to the President for Homeland
Security and Counterterrorism on the commencement of the Obama
presidency in 2009--a position he held until taking up his role as
CIA chief.
According
to the CIA Brennan previously worked for the agency for a 25 year
stretch, from 1980 to 2005.
Brennan
went private in 2005-2008, founding an intelligence and analysis firm
The Analysis Corp (TAC). In 2008 Brennan became a donor to Obama. The
same year TAC, led by Brennan, became a security advisor to the Obama
campaign and later that year to the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
It is during this period many of the Obama administration's key
strategic policies to China, Iran and "Af-Pak" were
formulated. When Obama and Biden entered into power, Brennan was
lifted up on high, resulting in his subsequent high-level national
security appointments.
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