All this is nothing new for Brennan. Michael Doran of the Hudson Institute has assembled a timeline from mainstream news stories which he believes shows that it was Brennan (probably with Barack Obama’s approval) who began the whole Trump-Russia collusion fantasy. It was Brennan who used Democrat senators like the truth-challenged Harry Reid as “ventriloquist’s dummies” to spread Hillary Clinton’s anti-Trump propaganda to the public and Brennan who pressured the FBI to investigate the Trump campaign using Clinton materials like the scurrilous Steele Dossier.

This is incredibly low and smarmy stuff. And since Brennan feels comfortable sitting on television and suggesting, without any evidence whatsoever, that the president of the United States is being blackmailed by our enemies, I think it’s perfectly fair for the rest of us to speculate in turn about why a former spook would spin such fantasies.

It now seems clear that Barack Obama, in transforming the federal government into a Chicago-style machine, allowed and perhaps encouraged the leadership of the Department of Justice and the FBI to behave in shamefully political and dishonest ways.