John Brennan, CIA Director: a biography

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John Owen Brennan born in Jersey city on 22 September 1955, is a senior U.S. government official since March 2013 under the post of the head of the CIA. He previously served as the chief of the National counterterrorism center, and from 2009 to 2013 he worked in the Obama team as an adviser in the fight against terrorism.

John Brennan

Youth

John Brennan, a biography which began in North Bergen, new Jersey, grew up in a family of Irish immigrants from County Roscommon. He studied at Fordham University in new York and in 1977 received a bachelor's degree in political science. A year of training abroad, he was held in American University in the Egyptian capital Cairo and a master's degree in public administration with an emphasis on the middle East region, defended in 1980 at the University of Texas at Austin. Fluent in Arabic, this ability allowed him to build a career in the security services.

Wife of John Brennan Pokluda name is Cathy Brennan, they have three children: a son and two daughters.

John Brennan biography

The Initial stage of professional activity

Brennan has long worked for the CIA, among other posts, were the posts of analyst for the middle East region and South Asia, as well as Advisor in Saudi Arabia. Some news sources have reported that at this time he converted to Islam and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, accompanied by representatives of the Saudi ruling dynasty. In 1999, he worked as chief of staff George Tenet, who at the time was Director of the CIA. In 2001, John Brennan was appointed Deputy Director of the CIA. From 2004 to 2005, he served as head of the National counterterrorism center. In 2005, Brennan left government service and was temporarily transferred to senior positions in the private analytical organization. January 20, 2009 he became the successor to Kenneth Weinstein as the adviser on internal security. The official name of his position was "Deputy Advisor for homeland security and counter-terrorism, and assistant to the President."

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Due to the fact that well-known journalist Glenn Greenwald spoke against the appointment of John Brennan to positions of leadership in the intelligence agencies, the latter had to resign. Brennan was charged that he favored a harsh interrogation techniques used in Abu Ghraib prison during the administration of George W. Bush. In early 2013, Barack Obama asked him to return to the same post.

CIA Director John Brennan

New strategy

In June 2011 was presented to the new anti-terrorism strategy. In his speech at the Woodrow Wilson center, 30 April 2012, Brennan argued for the targeted killing of individual terrorists of al-Qaeda. It was not about strike back, and the killing of participants in the planned attacks. At the end of the speech, he said:

"We decide to take such measures only if no other choice, if not be able to catch the criminal, if the local government does not take action, if we fail to do something that will prevent the attack. And only if the only available option would be to remove the person from the battlefield, and we intend to do so, to provide confidence in the absence of any collateral damage".

His assertion that the attacks "drone killers" of victims among the civilians could not be, contradicted by representatives of the Bureau of investigative Journalism.

16 Sep 2011 the Harvard school, he gave a speech about the balance between National security interests and law enforcement. The report stated that the main priority remains the protection of the American population. In the future, all actions, even the most secret, must not contradict accepted in the United States social and legal norms. As a disputed item, he called the geographic definition of the conflict. British lawyer Daniel Bethlehem was summarized as follows: "the United States believes that the war against al-Qaeda has no geographical boundaries, even if there are any restrictions. The limit of self-defense has passed. However, the major allies see the problem differently: as a conflict geographically limited to defined "hot spots".

John Owen Brennan

CIA Director

7 Jan 2013 with the submission of President Barack Obama John Brennan was Director of the CIA. Two months later, on March 8 of that year, Vice-President of the USA Joe Biden took his oath of office in the Roosevelt room at the White house.

In March 2014, Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA of removing documents from a computer used to investigate cases of torture, which was done by the Commission on intelligence of the Senate of the United States. John Brennan denied allegations of computer hacking.

John Owen Brennan

Ukrainian conflict

In April 2014, Russian media, citing senior officials in the Ukrainian security service, said that on 12 and 13 April, John Brennan was in Kiev, where he met and talked with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and his Deputy Vitaly Yarema. The fact of the Kiev consultation with us intelligence agencies later confirmed by Jay Carney, the press Secretary of the White house. Russian media believe that there is a connection between the visit of Brennan began shortly after a special operation of the Ukrainian security forces using military helicopters and tanks against the rebellious inhabitants of the Eastern part of Ukraine, with particular emphasis on the city of Slavyansk. The CIA denies the existence of this relationship. May 4, German media reported that the American intelligence services CIA and FBI control the actions of the Ukrainian transitional government in the war against the rebels in the East of Ukraine.

why John Brennan came to Moscow

Why John Brennan was in Moscow

This fact has surprised many. In the spring of 2016 CIA Director John Brennan travelled to Moscow to discuss with Russian leaders the situation in Syria. Brennan confirmed that the U.S. fully supports the political settlement of the Syrian conflict, but considered necessary the resignation of Bashar al-Assad as President. Later Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin no meetings with the Director of the CIA was not.

John Brennan was in the Russian capital in early March. In the middle of the same month, Vladimir Putin ordered to withdraw from Syria, the bulk of the Russian military, as their tasks were completed.

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