Surely the Nuns, Brothers, or Priests who taught John Brennan at Saint Joseph of the Palisades High School in West New York told him to stay away from people like Rahm Emanuel. So what happened? John ends up as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism at the White House. As such, he has to sit in close proximity to people like Rahm Emanuel pretty often (see above). That can cause one to make pathetically spun statements meant to protect the people who are above you in the feeding chain (lest you lose your spot in that chain). It would be hard to imagine John Brennan doing something like that when he was a high-ranking official at the C.I.A.
This posting on The Foundry of The Heritage Foundation would not make John's old teachers proud.
John Brennan Says There Was No Smoking Gun: Is He Right? » The Foundry
Unfortunately, Brennan continued his dissembling when he was interviewed yesterday by Chris Wallace, on Fox News Sunday. Check out this post from the Powerline Blog.
